Snow Patrol - Songs for Polar Bears

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Number of Discs
1
Release Date
30/05/2006
Artist
Snow Patrol
format
CD / Album
Label / Studio
Jeepster Records

Snow Patrol: Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Mark McClelland (keyboards, bass); Jonny Quinn (drums, percussion). Additional personnel: Fraser Simpson (guitar); Richard Colburn (keyboards, drums); Tom Simpson (DJ); Isobel Campbell (background vocals). Recorded at Chamber Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland. Snow Patrol: Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel); Mark McClelland (keyboards, bass instrument); Jonny Quinn (drums). Additional personnel: Fraser Simpson, Tom Simpson, Isobel Campbell, Richard Colburn. The late '90s found Scotland once again flying the indie-pop flag abandoned by the U. S. scene, and the one of the groups that followed in the footsteps of Belle & Sebastian, the Delgados, and Urusei Yatsura was a quartet of expat Irishmen called Snow Patrol. The group's debut full-length release, SONGS FOR POLARBEARS, is a fun collection of melodious three-chord indie-rock nuggets of noise, given context by Gary Lightbody's second-generation slack vocals and peppered with Tom Simpson's rhythm-inducing record-scratching. Tracks like the new wave-friendly "Starfighter Pilot," the loud and thorny breakup rant "Get Balsamic Vinegar... Quick You Fool," and the soft, lazily yearning "Velocity Girl" expertly take their cues and references from the Americans who had defined this sound in the preceding past decade (Pixies, Pavement, Sonic Youth). But Simpson's nimble DJ-ing skill-scratches that reinforce the music's forward motion, samples that reiterate song points-clearly illustrate that Snow Patrol is going with the evolutionary flow rather than living in an indie nirvana circa 1994. SONGS FOR POLARBEARS boasts sonic joys aplenty.

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1) Downhill from Here
2) Starfighter Pilot
3) Last Shot Ringing in My Ears
4) Absolute Gravity
5) Get Balsamic Vinegar... Quick You Fool
6) Mahogany
7) NYC
8) Little Hide
9) Make Up
10) Velocity Girl
11) Days Without Paracetamol
12) Fifteen Minutes Old
13) Favourite Friend
14) One Hundred Things You Should Have Done in Bed
15) Market Place
16) I Could Stay Away Forever
17) Sticky Teenage Twin
18) Holy Cow
19) When You're Right You're Right [Darth Vader Bringing in His Washing Mix
20) I Could Stay Away Forever
21) When You're Right You're Right [Darth Vader Bringing in His Washing Mi
22) Raze the City
23) Riot Please

Album
Songs for Polar Bears
Main Format
CD
Keyword Index
Songs for Polar Bears | Snow Patrol
Source
AL

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