The forest is the path

"[Snow Patrol] finds new sense of reflection in odd intersection between break-up album and self-aware confessional ... Musically, this is certainly one of the most interesting albums that the band has made in years. Lightbody's willingness to lay himself bare makes songs such as "Never Really Tire", weighted down by an ominous piano riff, terrifyingly tender".

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"The set retains all of the Scottish band's typical hallmarks: faint piano twinkles, atmospheric guitars, patient, midtempo beats, and Gary Lightbody's wounded vocals and vulnerable lyrics about love and time".

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"'The Forest Is the Path' does manage to pick itself up somewhat as it digs into its second half, even if it's too little too late. "Years That Fall" incorporates a tasteful electronic glisten and some drive, powered by a deep seated, weary heartbreak aged over "the years that fall between us." The following "Never Really Tire" is even stronger, one of the few moments that actually warrants the full Snow Patrol treatment with an ominous build and, finally, an epic climax that earns its monumental paintings of a collapsing landscape ... [It] would have been far more effective as a Gary Lightbody solo record. It's too often drowned in uninspired instrumentals, but just beneath the surface there is a damaged and beautiful writer calling on decades of craft to find his truest voice".

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