Snow Patrol: Fallen Empires
Andy Gill, The Independent, 11 November 2011
YOU WOULDN'T imagine one man could feel so much: like its two immediate predecessors Eyes Open and A Hundred Million Suns, this latest Snow Patrol album comes freighted with the weight of Gary Lightbody's emotional turmoil. As he observes late on in the album, "I've crashed to earth, but I've fallen for so long that it was just relief" — and certainly, at times here one suspects he simply enjoys a damn good wallow in self-pity.
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