Snow Patrol announce 'Wildness', first new album in seven years

Snow Patrol
Author: Paulo RossPublished 9th Mar 2018

Snow Patrol have announced their first new album in nearly seven years.

Gary Lightbody and co are set to return this spring with the release of ‘Wildness’

It drops on 25th May. The band’s new album trailer features a clip of their new song, “Life On Earth,” with footage of Lightbody traveling in a spaceship.

Last year Snow Patrol beat Van Morrison to be named the most played Northern Irish act of the 21st century

Frontman Gary Lightbody says the central themes on the band's new album include coming to grips with the chaotic modern world.

“There are many types of wildness, but I think it can be distilled into two: the wildness of the modern age, all it’s 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.”

Gary Lightbody also says that their latest LP is inspired by his dad’s battle with dementia.

See the tracklist for ‘Wildness’ below.

You can preorder Wildness here.

FULL TRACKLIST

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