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Jan 12, 2012Snow Patrol still have the potential to hit the sweet spot between U2's stadium baiting, Coldplay's icy elegance, and Elbow's art school-infused, north country soul.
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Jan 19, 2012Lightbody and company manage to deliver an unyielding and substantially satisfying collection of high quality upbeat tracks and atmospheric ballads.
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Nov 11, 2011Get these cuts [I'll Never Let Go and Called Out In The Dark] out of the way, though, and Fallen Empires settles down and improves.
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Jan 4, 2012For all the sentiment, it's the simplest stuff that rings true.
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Jan 10, 2012Although the sparkling production of Empires doesn't allow for much in the way of nuance or detail, Snow Patrol still attacks the choruses of "You Are" and "The Weight Of Love" with enough oomph that you can already hear the stadium sing-a-longs.
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Q MagazineDec 15, 2011Fallen Empires is typically and unashamedly arena-friendly bombast ... leavened by leader Gary Lightbody's often appealing insecurity.[Dec. 2011 p. 134]
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Jan 10, 2012It's not where you want to spend all of your listening time, but it's comforting at worst and occasionally fantastic.
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Jan 10, 2012It works, sometimes.
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Jan 10, 2012What makes this all feel reasonably unforced is the abiding earnestness in the songwriting.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 31
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Mixed: 5 out of 31
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Negative: 0 out of 31
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