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- Summary: Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody gathers together fellow band member Iain Archer, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Belle & Sebastian's Richard Colburn, Garret "Jacknife" Lee, and Troy Stewart to record a country-inspired album.
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- Record Label: Mom & Pop Music
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Top Track
| Get on the Road | |
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| The fire, the wine, the bed and you In this crimson light I find the truth And truth is like a punch or two It hits you hard, it knocks you... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 4 out of 9
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Mixed: 5 out of 9
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Negative: 0 out of 9
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The Place We Ran From is bloody and dense and dark, and not in the least like a pastiche. [Aug 2010, p.85]
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Q MagazineTired Pony have given side-bands a good name. [Aug 2010, p.121]
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The whole enterprise should strike those who find Snow Patrol just a bit too mainstream nowadays as a step in the right direction--it's unfussy and smaller in scale, but nearly always compelling.
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The slightly more country-rock instrumentation aside, this is still Lightbody in default mode: turning dark or maudlin subjects into epic, yearning anthems that raise hands or mobile phones into the air.
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The results of The Place We Ran From are ultimately pretty mixed. To start with the positives, it is a lot of better than expected and there are some genuinely decent pieces of songwriting. However, to enjoy those you have to wade through a thick fog of filler that either doesn't really go anywhere or just doesn't connect.
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On tracks like "Point Me At Lost Islands," where weather metaphors share equal space with acoustic guitars and fiddle solos, the group manages to shake out the doldrums and hit a genuine stride. But the rest of the album doesn't flow so well, and The Place We Ran From winds up amounting to far less than the sum of its parts.
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By and large The Place We Ran From falls well short of the left-of-centre power and eerie intimacy of Lightbody's heroes' music.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jan 7, 2018I think it's a great album. A little bit different like the Snow Patrol, but it's enough different.
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