Description
Label Review.
2018 album with 5 bonus tracks and 32pp book. Also available in CD and CD+.
Our Overview.
And finally Irish-Scottish rock quintet Snow Patrol are back with their new album ‘Wildness’ some 7 years since ‘Fallen Empires’ of 2011. While Snow Patrol took a step back in recent years, frontman Gary Lightbody remained active with his R.E.M. tribute supergroup Tired Pony and recorded a song with Taylor Swift for her album ‘Red’. But Gary Lightbody acknowledges suffering from writer’s block. He cites a number of personal factors that inspired him to create more music for Snow Patrol, including his father’s battle with dementia, his own decision to stop drinking, and his relationship with his goddaughters.
‘Wildness sees the group reuniting with longtime producer Jackknife Lee. "There are many types of wildness, but I think it can be distilled into two: the wildness of the modern age, all it's confusion, illogic and alienation and a more ancient wildness," Lightbody said of the album. "Something primal, alive and beautiful that speaks to our true connectivity, our passion, our love, our communion with nature and each other. This is the kind of wildness the album is centred around. The loss of it. Trying to reconnect with it. To remember it."