Take Back the City
October 18, 2008
SNOW PATROL
Best-known for hit ballad "Chasing Cars," Scotland rock quintet Snow Patrol scored big in 2006, selling more than 1 million U.S. copies of "Eyes Open," which became the best-selling U.K. album of the year. On "Take Back the City," the energetic lead to follow-up set "A Hundred Million Suns," singer/ guitarist Gary Lightbody celebrates "every crack/ every wall" of his favorite metropolis (Glasgow, London, New York?), inviting urban partygoers to reclaim the streets. The guitar-driven anthem begins humbly, with Bowie-ish vocals dancing over a new wave-infused folk-rock beat, and builds to a soaring feel-good refrain ("I love this city tonight"), delivered with the kind of understatement that makes melody-focused U.K. acts so exciting.—Sven Philipp
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