Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol compile mega-hits, B-sides and rarities, plus three new tracks: electro-heavy "Just Say Yes" and ballads "Give Me Strength" and "Dark Roman Wine." They load the top of the first disc with their biggest singles, tracks that have guided along many a dramatic TV scene and still pack a punch of poignancy. But what makes this better than your average greatest hits package is its intriguing range; they add in favorites from their first two albums, tracks with the Reindeer Section (a side project with other Scottish musicians) and a Beyonce/Jay-Z cover (even pasty U.K. boys can rap!).

Snow Patrol found a wide audience as a kind of Coldplay minus the world-conquering
aspiration. The Irish lite rockers' glistening atmospherics and genteel grandiosity made
sweeping melancholy feel fragile and private. This two-CD best-of draws mostly from the
three albums they've made since 2004, when singer-guitarist Gary Lightbody jettisoned his
low-fi Belle and Sebastian side on the austerely gushing Final Straw. Lightbody s... More >