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To sum them up in one word, "reliable" would be the most appropriate.
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Eyes Open takes the formula of the last album and magnifies it.
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Gone completely is any passing trace of the grubby, US college rock that made them so beloved underground when the real world wasn't taking notice. In its place, is an awful lot of big, blustery ballads.
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Big, bold, cleverly-executed, thoroughly hollow stuff.
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Snow Patrol suddenly sounds like a cross between Goo Goo Dolls and Train.
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Eyes Open is far from a horrible album. It’s easy to listen to, it’s melodic, and it’s well-read. But you’re a strong (or naïve) listener if you can get past the calculation, the number-crunching, the crassness with which Lightbody has taken aim at the MySpace demographic.
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BlenderOver 45 minutes, it feels monotonous and preposterously self-pitying, but in controlled doses, it bests all the rest of the U.K.'s current wave of post-Coldplay bedwetters. [Jun 2006, p.145]
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UncutSo much of Eyes Open is nearly, but not quite. [Jun 2006, p.114]
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Unfortunately, singer Gary Lightbody can't resist playing it safe. He slides comfortably back into the stadium-size ballads and mushy MOR formulas that scored on their million-seller, Final Straw.
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Stronger songs could have elevated it past mere prettiness.
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MojoEyes Open hardly furthers Snow Patrol's rote one guitar attack, and repetition exposes Lightbody's interpretations of love's little hiccups as a tiring experience. [Jun 2006, p.108]
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SpinOverreaches. [Jul 2006, p.88]
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Anything that was either subtle or complicated has been erased to provide ready-made heart-on-sleeve love songs.
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Under The RadarSnow Patrol got it all wrong with this album. [Summer 2006, p.93]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 58 out of 75
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Mixed: 14 out of 75
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Negative: 3 out of 75
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Apr 30, 2015
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May 24, 2012
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[Anonymous]Oct 20, 2009