New York, NY (Top40 Charts) The
Snow Patrol premiered "Don't Give In," the lead single from Wildness, their first record in seven years, via BBC
Radio 2. Said lead singer and songwriter, Gary Lightbody about the song: "'Don't Give In' was originally about a friend going through a tough time but the more I wrote into it I realized it was about me and the struggle of making the album - which took 5 years and was not easy - coupled with the struggle with depression I've had since I was a kid, so it has become the talisman of the album. The song that became a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Snow Patrol concurrently debuted the music video for "
Don't Give In" and you can watch it in the left column of Top40-Charts.com
Snow Patrol also announce shows in New York City, Los Angeles, and London in April and throughout Ireland & the UK in May (full dates below). Tickets for these dates will be available for fans who purchased Wildness via the Official
Snow Patrol store prior to Tuesday, March 27 at 1pm EDT. Remaining tickets will be available to the general public starting Friday, March 30 at 10AM local here.
The band will release a special limited 10" of "
Don't Give In" backed with album track "
Life On Earth" for Record Store Day on 21st April.
On May 25th,
Snow Patrol will return with Wildness which finds the band searching for clarity, connection, and meaning, while staying true to the melodic songwriting prowess that brought them to prominence. Wildness taps into something raw and primitive. Lead-singer and songwriter Gary Lightbody says of the album: "There are many types of wildness, but I think it can be distilled into two: the wildness of the modern age, all its confusion, illogic and alienation and a more ancient wildness. Something primal, alive and beautiful that speaks to our true connectivity, our passion, our love, our communion with nature and each other. This is the kind of wildness the album is centered around. The loss of it. Trying to reconnect with it. To remember it." Watch the album trailer for Snow Patrol's Wildness here.
Pre-order your copy of Wildness from the Official
Snow Patrol store HERE to be among the first to access tickets to see
Snow Patrol live.
Since their 1998 debut, Songs for Polarbears,
Snow Patrol have racked up an impressive number of critical and commercial accolades, including 15 million global album sales, 1+ billion global track streams, five UK Platinum Albums, and are Grammy, BRIT Award and Mercury
Music Prize nominated. After their Fallen Empires tour ended in 2012, band members —which also include multi-instrumentalist Johnny McDaid, guitarist Nathan Connolly, bassist Paul Wilson, and drummer Jonny Quinn — decided to take a step back from the band, and focus on their own projects. Gary Lightbody continued his work with his Tired Pony side project with members of Belle and Sebastian, R.E.M, Reindeer Section and
Fresh Young Fellows and moved to Los Angeles to begin writing songs for movies (including "This Is How You Walk On" for 2017's Gifted), and doing a number of high-profile co-writes with Ed Sheeran,
Taylor Swift Biffy Clyro and One Direction. Taking this extended break from
Snow Patrol proved to be a source of inspiration, and writing songs that were not pulled directly from his own psyche helped heal what Lightbody considered to be not so much writer's block as life block.
It's in this search for clarity and connection that these songs were written and refined. "I think it's the first record I've ever written that I haven't just asked a bunch of questions. I actually tried to figure out why I was unhappy, why I feel out of place, why I'm afraid," says Lightbody. "There's nothing really to protect myself for-- it's all in the album. I want to remember." This impulse was partially inspired by Lightbody's father, who is suffering from dementia. "I think the album is defined by memory in a lot of ways," says Lightbody, "including my father's loss of memory."
"Seamus Heaney, my favorite poet of all time, said at 71 that he was only discovering what some of his poetry means, and this is coming from a Nobel Prize-winning poet. It's a great testament to inspiration," says Lightbody. "Sometimes it takes you five years to write the thing. Like now. And you know for sure when you finish an album like that, where you've poured over every detail and put every atom of yourself into it, everything makes sense and I bet you I'm never not proud of this record."
Wildness Track Listing
01 Life On Earth
02 Don't Give In
03 Heal Me
04 Empress
05 A Dark Switch
06 What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?
07 A Youth Written In Fire
08 Soon
09 Wild Horses
10 Life And Death
Snow Patrol Tour Dates
April 11 /// London, UK /// Islington Assembly Hall
April 18 /// New York, NY /// Irving Plaza
April 25 /// Los Angeles, CA /// The Fonda Theatre
May 11 /// Derry, UK ///
Millennium Forum
May 12 /// Cork, Ireland /// Opera House
May 14 /// Killarney, Ireland /// INEC
May 15 /// Dublin, Ireland /// Olympia Theater
May 16 /// Wexford, Ireland /// Opera House
May 18 /// Galway, Ireland /// Leisureland
May 20 /// Belfast, Ireland /// Ulster Hall
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