List Price: £11.99 (GBP)
- Lowest New Price: £7.80
- Lowest Used Price: £0.23
- Lowest Collectible Price: £2.49
- Total New: 11
- Total Used: 18
- Total Collectible: 1
- Total Refurbished: 0
- Artist : Snow Patrol
- Binding : Audio CD
- EAN : 5027731785049
- Label : Jeepster Recordings Limited
- Languages : Original Language: English
- Manufacturer : Jeepster Recordings Limited
- MPN : 805551070423
- Number Of Discs : 1
- Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
- Package Quantity : 1
- Part Number : 805551070423
- Product Group : Music
- Publisher : Jeepster Recordings Limited
- Release Date : 2009-03-18
- SKU : 5027731785049-11
- Studio : Jeepster Recordings Limited
- UPC : 805551070423
It's a disservice to Snow Patrol to compare them to their more successful labelmates, but to say that Songs For Polar Bears sounds like Belle and Sebastian gone grunge should go some way to defining the skewed brilliance of this Northern Irish trio. Snow Patrol do some wonderful things to the conventions of fuzzy new-wave guitar-pop; pare it down into a melancholic hymn on "The Last Shot Ringing In My Ears", hyper-tense it into the caffeine buzz of "Starfighter Pilot", or let it dissipate altogether on the ethereal "Velocity Girl2. Songs For Polar Bears works because it's the polar opposite to club-footed cock rock; an album that sounds warmly empathetic, while others are all too eager to shoot their dull load of guitar machismo. That it's a little overlong is a shame--an earlier EP, "One Hundred Things You Should Have Done In Bed" was concise perfection--but Songs For Polar Bears feels like a tender bandage, while the rest of the world's rockers dully figure that if it hurts, it works. --Louis Pattison
- Amazon.co.uk Review
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