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SNOW PATROL have announced details for their eagerly anticipated new album ‘The Forest is the Path‘.

It has been six years since the bands last album ‘Wilderness‘ which reached #2 in the UK album charts back in 2018. They also celebrated 20 years of their third record ‘Final Straw‘ last year, with a reissue of the album.

The new album is scheduled for release 13th September 2024 via Polydor Records. Pre-order HERE.

In a press release, vocalist-guitarist Gary Lightbody said “‘The Forest is the Path’ is an album rooted in reflection, introspection and interrogation. One of its key building blocks was the idea of love from the distance of time. I haven’t been in a relationship for a very long time, 10 years or more, so love from a distance to me meant the way a relationship sits in your memory from a distance of, say, 10 years. That’s not something I’d previously thought about as away to write about love. So it’s like, when you’re in love, you’re standing in the lobby of the Empire State Building. When you’ve broken up with that person, you’re out in the street. You can still see the building, but you’re not in there anymore. And when it’s 10 years later, now you’re standing in Brooklyn looking at the Manhattan skyline.
 
It’s a theme addressed unblinkingly and unflinchingly on the ‘The Beginning’. “That’s kind of a summing up of this album. It’s a way of looking at various mistakes, any pain I may have caused, from a place where nothing is hurting anymore, except the memory when you pull it back into your mind. The memory itself is full of hurt but everything around it isn’t. You’re holding in your hand this ball of fire, but now you’ve got gloves on.”

Gary continues by saying “‘The Beginning’ is the cornerstone of the band’s eighth studio album, written on a trip to Somerset. The first day we wrote ‘The Beginning‘ start to finish.”

Guitarist Johnny McDaid adds “He did the vocal in one take, straight after writing the lyrics. So it has this mind-collapsing quality to it where you feel like you’re seeing into someone’s soul.”

The brand new single titled ‘The Beginning‘ is available across digital streaming platforms HERE.

‘The Forest is the Path‘ track listing can be found below.

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1. All
2. The Beginning
3. Everything’s Here And Nothing’s Lost
4. Your Heart Home
5. This Is The Sound Of Your Voice
6. Hold Me In The Fire
7. Years That Fall
8. Never Really Tire
9. These Lies
10. What If Nothing Breaks?
11. Talking About Hope
12. The Forest Is The Path

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SNOW PATROL will be heading out on an arena tour across the UK + Ireland in February 2025. Tickets go on sale Friday 7th June at 10am.

15th February – London, The O2
16th February – Birmingham, Resorts World Arena
18th February – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
19th February – Hull, Connexin Live
21st February – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
22nd February – Manchester Co-op Live
25th February – Dublin, 3Arena
27th February – Belfast, SSE Arena