Snow Patrol share ‘The Starting’ and announce new album ‘The Forest Path’ with 2025 UK and Eire enviornment tour
Snow Patrol have at present (Might 30) shared new single ‘The Starting’ and introduced their eighth album ‘The Forest Path’ with a supporting 2025 UK and Eire enviornment tour.
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‘The Forest Path’ is the band’s first full-length document in six years, following on from 2018’s ‘Wilderness’, and can arrive on September 13 by way of Polydor. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.
Produced by Fraser T Smith, the album was written by Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid, and options 12 tracks in addition to writing credit from Smith, Will Reynolds, Roy Kerr and Troy Van Leeuwen from Queens Of The Stone Age.
Talking concerning the new single, which was written on a visit to Somerset, Lightbody defined: “The primary day we wrote ‘The Starting’, begin to end.”
McDaid added: “And he did the vocal in a single take. “Straight after writing the lyrics. So it has this mind-collapsing high quality to it the place you’re feeling such as you’re seeing into somebody’s soul.”
Take a look at the brand new music right here:
‘The Forest Is The Path’ tracklist is:
1. ‘All’
2. ‘The Starting’
3. ‘All the pieces’s Right here And Nothing’s Misplaced’
4. ‘Your Coronary heart Dwelling’
5. ‘This Is The Sound Of Your Voice’
6. ‘Maintain Me In The Fireplace’
7. ‘Years That Fall’
8. ‘By no means Actually Tire’
9. ‘These Lies’
10. ‘What If Nothing Breaks?’
11. ‘Speaking About Hope’
12. ‘The Forest Is The Path’
An announcement concerning the upcoming LP described it as “an album rooted in reflection, introspection and interrogation” and about “the concept of affection from the space of time”.
Lightbody defined: “I haven’t been in a relationship for a really very long time, 10 years or extra, so love from a distance to me meant the way in which a relationship sits in your reminiscence from a distance of, say, 10 years. That’s not one thing I’d beforehand considered as a strategy to write about love.
“So it’s like, if you’re in love, you’re standing within the foyer of the Empire State Constructing. Once you’ve damaged up with that particular person, you’re out on the street. You may nonetheless see the constructing, however you’re not in there anymore. And when it’s 10 years later, now you’re standing in Brooklyn trying on the Manhattan skyline.”
He went on to say that that is additionally a theme addressed on ‘The Starting’. “That’s form of a summing up of this album… It’s a manner of varied errors, any ache I’ll have induced, from a spot the place nothing is hurting anymore, besides the reminiscence if you pull it again into your thoughts,” he continued.
“The reminiscence itself is filled with damage however every part round it isn’t. You’re holding in your hand this ball of fireplace, however now you’ve received gloves on.”
The band have additionally introduced particulars of a UK and Eire tour in February 2025. Followers who pre-order the brand new album from the band’s retailer will get entry to tour pre-sale.
Tickets go on pre-sale on Wednesday June 5 at 10am BST and common sale on June 7 at 10am BST. You’ll be able to buy yours here.
Snow Patrol’s 2025 UK and Eire tour dates are:
FEBRUARY
15 – London O2
16 – Birmingham Resorts World Area
18 – Cardiff Utilita Area
19 – Hull Connexin Reside
21 – Glasgow OVO Hydro
22 – Manchester Co-op Reside Area
25 – Dublin 3Arena
27 – Belfast SSE Area
Final yr, the band introduced that bassist Paul Wilson and drummer Jonny Quinn had “determined to go away Snow Patrol”.
Guitarist Nathan Connolly additionally launched a solo profession final yr and launched his first document ‘The Unusual Order Of Issues’.