Eyes Open
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Album • May 01 / 2006 • 14 songs, 57m 26s
Post-Britpop
Pop Rock
Alternative Rock
Popular
6.6
/ 10
Another competent effort from the former twee band, now practitioners of Coldplay-like dramatic ballads.
B
Snow Patrol's past didn't point to an overtly mainstream, straightforward, radio-ready album like Eyes Open: In the past, the Scottish band (with Irish roots) has always pulled back from that grandiose last step, preferring to keep one toe moist in the indie pool. After all, singer Gary Lightbody fronts The Reindeer…
The anthemic indie rock sound of Snow Patrol provides a bit of hope and promise among the many acts attempting to fit into a certain genre or scene.
4
/ 10
Even before Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody drops Sufjan Stevens's name, you get a good idea of what Eyes Open is all about.