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A Hundred Million Suns might just be Snow Patrol's biggest, most genuine effort yet.
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It’s a confident, balanced work of mass art with only extremely minor flaws.
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A Hundred Million Suns is rife with the kind of midtempo rock ballads that dreamy rom-com climaxes are made of.
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Snow Patrol handily manages the challenge of following up breakthrough album "Eyes Open" on A Hundred Million Suns.
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The album wholly warrants Snow Patrol's fame, presenting a band that aspires to pop/rock grandeur without developing the accompanying ego. As a result, this is the group's best work yet.
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Singer Gary Lightbody has a moody streak and a beautifully expressive voice, which sounds exquisite on the band’s newest record, A Hundred Million Suns.
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the opening tracks, 'If There’s a Rocket Tie Me to It' and 'Crack the Shutters,' seem deliberately placed as reassuring entry points for those fans who connected in a big way with the heart-on-sleeve emotionalism of 2006’s hit 'Chasing Cars.'
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Irish Rockers still going for the emotional jugular on impressive fifth album.
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It's not a radical departure--there's no 'Kid A' in their future--but rather an engaging sidestep for a band that does triumphantly normal better than almost anyone.
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Three-part 16-minute closer 'The Lightening Strike,' at the other end of the scale, also sees them finally growing into their stadium skin, evoking Oasis, REM, Muse and, indeed, Coldplay amongst other subtleties and convincing you for once that they genuinely harbour ambition.
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JackL.Oct 29, 2008A definite change for snow patrol, but a good one nonetheless.