A Hundred Million Suns
Though wide-screen preciousness is Snow Patrol's forte, the band's newest album, A Hundred Million Suns, is noticeably lighter on surging, megawatt stadium-filling fare, instead placing more emphasis on nuance.
Every now and then, a band offers a solid reminder of how simple it can be to make good music. Bizarrely diverse instrumentation (glockenspiel!), easy-to-market gimmicks (tap dancer!), off-kilter genre adoption (Mongolian folk music!)—these strategies make for fun diversions, and sometimes good music, too. But Snow…
Would you believe that it\'s album number five for Snow Patrol? Here, it seems, revolution comes in little steps.
If Final Straw introduced Snow Patrol to the mainstream and Eyes Open cemented the band's popularity, then A Hundred Million Suns is the group's ultimate bid for stardom, its slick production and sonic uplift designed to maintain Snow Patrol's place in the charts.
Tiresome...After existing in relative obscurity for a few years, Snow Patrol stumbled on a successful formula with their third album ‘Final Straw’.
A Hundred Million Suns, unlike Snow Patrol’s previous two releases, focuses on the giddy start of a relationship rather than its end.
It's a cruel fate (though not necessarily a rare one) for any band to have to watch as one of their weakest songs becomes their biggest hit.
<p>Snow Patrol revert to base instincts with chug-paced, heart-tweaking, stadium-size choruses</p>
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns review: The ultimate winter romance album.