{"id":4944,"date":"2012-02-17T21:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:10:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:10:26","slug":"snow-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/snow-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"SNOW PATROL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4945\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SNOW-PATROL-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SNOW-PATROL-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SNOW-PATROL-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>S<\/strong><strong>NOW PATROL<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Fallen Empires<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Interscope]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Despite considerable success in the U.K. and Ireland, Snow Patrol\u2019s popularity in America lags behind fellow Brit-rockers like Coldplay. But while Coldplay\u2019s albums have come to feel increasingly hollow in their grandiosity, Snow Patrol\u2019s latest continues to hone the cinematic, downhearted sound that has yielded a string of platinum albums abroad. The band experiments a little here with pounding drums and jittery synthesizers on the title track and subtle electronic noise framing a booming rhythm track on lead single \u201cCalled Out in the Dark.\u201d Mostly, though, Snow Patrol emphasizes proven strengths: glimmers of guitar, moody minor-key piano chords and Gary Lightbody\u2019s melancholy voice. He pleads with impassioned urgency on \u201cThis Isn\u2019t Everything You Are\u201d and sighs disconsolately on the wistful \u201cNew York,\u201d as spare keyboard gives rise to a sweeping orchestral arrangement on the refrain. It\u2019s powerful stuff, to be sure\u2014maybe powerful enough to vault Snow Patrol to new heights on this side of the pond. \u2013ED<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNOW PATROL Fallen Empires [Interscope] Despite considerable success in the U.K. and Ireland, Snow Patrol\u2019s popularity in America lags behind fellow Brit-rockers like Coldplay. But while Coldplay\u2019s albums have come to feel increasingly hollow in their grandiosity, Snow Patrol\u2019s latest continues to hone the cinematic, downhearted sound that has yielded a string of platinum albums [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3032,3101,628,3100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}