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SNOW PATROL - Eyes Open
| BBC Collective |
| So here’s how it goes. This is the most important album Snow Patrol have ever had to make. Post two-failed efforts of attempting to lure the alternative planet with ‘Songs for Polar Bears’ and ‘When It’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up’, 2004’s ‘Final Straw’ eventually managed to capture our minds. Plus, it catapulted the Patrol into one of the finest bands this nation has to offer....full text |
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| Times Online |
| It may not come as news to the committed, but many casual fans of Snow Patrol will be unaware that Eyes Open is the band’s fourth album. After nearly a decade, and two underperforming releases (Music for Polarbears and When it’s All Over We Still Have to Clear Up), Final Straw (2004) gave the Glaswegians a belated breakthrough....full text |
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| Dotmusic |
| Snow Patrol aren't the first band to have revived an ailing career by slavishly mimicking Coldplay - stand up Athlete, Keane, Embrace - but along with Keane they are the most successful. Having spent most of their career putting out charming, ramshackle, under-selling indie records, they came back with the brazenly plagiaristic and interminably dull "Run", which somehow led to their last album "Final Straw" selling in its millions....full text |
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