Final Straw

Taken line by line, Gary Lightbody's lyrics on Snow Patrol's third album, Final Straw, don't say\n ...

With Final Straw, Snow Patrol mainman Gary Lightbody seems to take all the inspiration he's gathered from the superstar collaborators in his Reindeer Section project and bundle it into a series of earnest bombastic rock ballads.

Snow Patrol has brushed off the softness of their Belle and Sebastian-style past for Final Straw, their major label debut.

<p>(Black Lion)</p>

Superb third album by undervalued Northern Irish rockers