Snow Patrol
The Forest Is the Path
Release Date: Sep 13, 2024
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
Record label: Polydor
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Album Review: The Forest Is the Path by Snow Patrol
Very Good, Based on 3 Critics
Based on rating 4/5
“Love is just pain in reverse,” sings Gary Lightbody, in the most tender moment of These Lies, a vulnerably moving highlight of Snow Patrol’s eighth album, The Forest is the Path....
Based on rating 8/10
Reigniting their tender, earnest brand of early-2000s indie rock, Snow Patrol returned after a six-year gap with their eighth album, The Forest Is the Path. Produced by Fraser T. Smith (Adele, Stormzy), the set retains all of the Scottish band's typical hallmarks: faint piano twinkles, atmospheric guitars, patient, midtempo beats, and Gary Lightbody's wounded vocals and vulnerable lyrics about love and time.
Based on rating 2.5
Their first album since 2018’s Wildness is also their first as a trio, but upheavals have not obviously changed their sound It’s strange to think that, when they first started out, Snow Patrol were thought of as the very definition of an quirky little indie band. They were signed to Jeepster, Belle and Sebastian‘s record label, had a debut album called Songs For Polarbears and wrote weird, scratchy indie rock songs called things like Get Balsamic Vinegar… Quick You Fool. Global superstardom tends to change these things of course, and once Gary Lightbody had written Chasing Cars, they were destined to be ‘that band who always soundtrack emotional moments in TV shows’.
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