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Snow Patrol

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RS: 3of 5 Stars

2009

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Snow Patrol found a wide audience as a kind of Coldplay minus the world-conquering aspiration. The Irish lite rockers' glistening atmospherics and genteel grandiosity made sweeping melancholy feel fragile and private. This two-CD best-of draws mostly from the three albums they've made since 2004, when singer-guitarist Gary Lightbody jettisoned his low-fi Belle and Sebastian side on the austerely gushing Final Straw. Lightbody sums up his worldview on Snow Patrol's biggest hit, "Chasing Cars": "Would you lie with me and just forget the world?" But 30 songs of soft-focus gorgeousness can make his comfy hideaway a bit claustrophobic.



JON DOLAN

(Posted: Nov 10, 2009)

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