Snow Patrol - 'Signal Fire'
Hey, what's this? Signs of fresh growth on the previously barren outcrop of mental landscape from which Snow Patrol previously got all their ideas? Has someone been out there spraying every available patch of dry brain-soil with some mental fertiliser?
And while questions are being asked, is this what happens when you have to write a song specially for a film? Does the director take a listen and go "Hey! You've just written 'Chasing Bloody Cars' again AGAIN! Do something different or I'm gonna get the Kaiser Chiefs to do it!"
Whatever the reason, we should all be grateful that Gary and his epic-rocking buddies are taking tentative steps away from their old formulas. Oh sure, the verses are the same sort of thing they always do - a tiny little melodic fragment is repeated often and carries lyrics in which the singer talks directly to you, the listener, about how crucial you are in his dramatic life. But someone has clearly slipped the drummer a great big steak, or whatever the vegetarian equivalent is, cos when the chorus kicks in he starts playing double time, and at GREAT VOLUME.
Startling stuff, eh? And then, just after that chorus is finished and the rest of the band all turn towards the drum kit with expressions of total bewilderment on their faces, someone starts singing barbershop harmonies to fill the musical gap. Then there's another verse, then the drummer goes crackers in the second chorus, and gets so carried away that he keeps going even when it's time for the barbershoppers to do their bit again.
OK, it doesn't sound like much, but this is Snow Patrol we're talking about. Maybe they should work with film directors more often, eh?
PS: The video is very cute too.
CD Released: April 30th
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
this song is boring boring boring boring.
Snow Patrol used to be such legendary LEGENDS.
Then they released chasing cars.
Then I cried.
That, my dear friends, was the Day The Music Died.
Listen to early snow patrol music - pre final straw - and prepare to be amazed
Er like this song is good. I dunno what the opther lassess are complainin about!!!!!!!
Fantastic! Easily my favourite snow patrol. And Gary looks strangely sexy in the video!
this song is amasing i love it