Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
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Artist: Snow PatrolBrand: Baker
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Music Label: A&M
Product features:
- SNOW PATROL EYES OPEN
- You're All I Have
- Hands Open
- Chasing Cars
- Shut Your Eyes
- It's Beginning To Get To Me
- You Could Be Happy
- Make This Go On Forever
- Set The Fire To The Third Bar
- Headlights On Dark Roads
- Open Your Eyes
- The Finish Line
Music reviews of Eyes Open
Music Review: "Please just save me from this darkness"
Rating: 5 Stars
The first song I heard from this band was 'Make This Go on Forever' and I was less than impressed. It's not that it's a bad song, just at one listen it wasn't anything that really moved me. Then I heard 'Hands Open' and I said to myself..."They got something here"...but it still wasn't enough to really push me to make a purchase. Then yesterday happened.
True story. I'm on my way to a doctor's appointment listening to the radio and some chick calls in and starts going off about how they MUST play 'Chasing Cars' because it's her favorite song ever and the guy on the radio says it's his favorite song too and so he played it. About three words into it and I was absorbed. I've never been that touched by a song since first hearing Damien Rice's 'Blowers Daughter'. I veered off course to the nearest Best Buy and bought the CD, making myself 15 minutes late to my doctor's appointment, but it was well worth it. Since then I've listened to this album three times back to back and I'm listening to it even now as I write this review.
The album starts off with 'You're All I Have' which is a good song, but nothing really spectacular. It's a nice intro to the power of the remainder of this album. 'Hands Open' is one of my favorite songs here, and the more and more I listen to it the more I love it. It's simple, lyric wise and even music wise but it's still a standout. 'Chasing Cars'...One word...BRILLIANT! It actually 'almost' brings me to tears. Lead singer Gary Lightbody made a comment about being the type of band that grabs you at the heart, and he makes good on that comment with this song. When Lightbody sings "If I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world?" I'm moved in a way that music rarely does.
'Shut Your Eyes' has a great beat, a great musical arrangement that helps it stand out. I'm not huge on the chanting at the end (the whole "shut your eyes and sing to me" part) but it's forgivable. 'It's Beginning to Get to Me' is another great song with deep lyrics that touch me, but it's the tragic 'You Could be Happy' that stands out as a real tear jerker. It goes straight for the heart with its interesting piano-type chimes and sad lyrics ("Is it too late to remind you how we were?") about a failed romance and just wanting your ex to be happy. It's beautiful. That brings me to 'Make This go On Forever'. As I mentioned, when I first heard this song I was less than impressed, but after hearing it four times I have to say that it's quite impressive. The lyrics are really what makes it stand out. It's not much of a song for vocal range, having been sung very monotone, but the power in the lyrics are what make it stand out ("My words just break and melt. Please just save me from this darkness.")
Martha Wainwright has such a beautiful voice that compliments Gary Lightbody very well, and as they sing 'Set the Fire to the Third Bar' I'm captivated. The Chorus is almost enchanting. 'Headlights on Dark Roads' is also a standout to me. It's got more of a rock feel to it. I really like 'Open Your Eyes' and the closer 'The Finish Line' is a great way to close out this nearly perfect album, very delicate, very fragile. Not since listening to 'O' have I ever been this into any one artist. Snow Patrol has been likened to Dashboard and Coldplay, two great bands in themselves, but to me Snow Patrol is a notch above, just barely elevating over Coldplay in delivering a wonderfully beautiful and unique musical experience you won't soon forget!
Description of Eyes Open
"There are swaggering bands, bands who are in your face. And then there are bands who get hold of you somewhere else. I think it's a heart thing, an intimacy thing. Like you know them and they know you. I think we are one of those bands." So says Snow Patrol singer and chief songwriter Gary Lightbody.And all the proof you'll need is Snow Patrol's new album Eyes Open, a collection of songs which more than makes good on the promise of its predecessor, 2004's two million selling Final Straw.
Values: beautiful powerful songs underscored by some of the most poignant and telling lyrics in rock. Eyes Open is Snow Patrol's post card from the cliff edge. It's going to be hard to ignore these songs in 2006.
Snow Patrol are frequently compared to Coldplay in the press, which seems strange as they write far better songs and do not appear to be quite so self-hating, nor as rich. Their delightfully dour little pop songs do touch on the melancholic side of things, but the lyrics are wonderfully slice-of-life descriptions. Singer/lyricist Gary Lightbody gives a shout-out to Sufjan Stevens when on the punchy "Open Your Eyes" he sings, "The anger swells in my guts." Perhaps a better comparison would be American indie-rock act Sebadoh? Regardless, this band continues to surprise. If you went to see this mixed Scottish/Irish group on tour after hearing their wistful, breakout third album Final Straw, you might have been a bit confused by the rock juggernaut confronting you. Eyes Open is their most straightforwardly rock record yet, and thanks in large part to producer Garret Lee, it's their best. If there was ever perfect music to get lost to while driving around confused about a relationship, this is it. --Mike McGonigal
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