Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol's quiet-loud-quiet approach to music is kicked up a notch by a discordant grittiness that makes the hooks on songs like "Run," "Spitting Games" and "Little Tiny Fractures" burn a little hotter. This is a superb bounce-up-and-down indie rock album that will undoubtedly knock your socks off.

Irish rockers get confessional and bombastic after a couple of underambitious and
underwhelming indie albums, Ireland's Snow Patrol are reaching for the stars with Final
Straw. It's already a huge hit in the U.K., propelled by its single, "Run," an enormous
lighter-waving power ballad in the mold of Coldplay's "Yellow." Sensitive-boy frontman Gary
Lightbody emotes about love objects both human and chemical as if sheer earne... More >