From a review of Snow Patrol's "Open Your Eyes" single in the NME this week:
'NME have finally pegged the appeal of Snow Patrol - basically they make rock music for people who are too busy to actually get into rock music, and need an easy option swathed in a veneer of quality. Favourite restaurant? Pizza Express. Favourite furnishings store? Ikea. Favourite band? Snow Patrol.'
From a Drowned In Sound review of "Chocolate", April 2004:
'This is a recording designed to fit into a banal lifestyle, without friction, without fuss. It slots in nicely with that trip to Ikea, that purchase of a deluxe double-disc DVD, that Pizza Hut meal deal'
"Open Your Eyes" is a bit of a ponderous, overlong thing and it took me at least 30 seconds to realise wasn't "Chasing Cars" last time I heard it soundtracking something on TV. Hardly their finest moment, then, but still less banal than that approach to criticising it.
2 comments:
Yeah, I don't mind admitted my love of Snow Patrol is largely contextual, but that's awfully lazy writing.
I must at some stage try and find newspaper/magazine reviews of Final Straw when it came out, because with only the first release of Spitting Games preceding it I have serious doubts whether any of them would have taken the 'sub-Coldplay coffee table' approach that kicked in round about Run going top ten. I must also try and find reviews of Songs For Polar Bears written by people who only picked it up after Final Straw took off.
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