Snow Patrol release new album 'The Forest Is The Path'

SNOW PATROL today release their stunning new album ‘The Forest Is The Path’ featuring new single ‘Everything’s Here And Nothing’s Lost’

‘The Forest is the Path’ is the Northern Irish band’s eighth studio album and marks their eagerly awaited return after six years, following 2018’s ‘Wildness’. It is produced by Fraser T Smith (Adele/Dave/Stormzy) and the band. Now comprising the trio of Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid, Snow Patrol offered the first tastes of their extraordinary new album with singles ‘The Beginning’, ‘This Is The Sound Of Your Voice’ and ‘All’.

‘The Forest Is The Path’ was written by Nathan Connolly, Gary Lightbody and Johnny McDaid and features twelve tracks. Fraser T Smith, Will Reynolds, Roy Kerr and Troy Van Leeuwen (QOTSA) also contributed to the writing on some of the songs on the album. The album and single artwork features paintings by Gary Lightbody.

New single ‘Everything’s Here And Nothing’s Lost’ is the second song the band wrote for the album on a brief but pivotal writing trip to Somerset. “It was written on the second day there,” Lightbody says “The first day we wrote ‘The Beginning' and the second day we wrote ‘Everything’s Here and Nothing Lost’ which are now the first and third singles from the album, so you could say it was a productive trip”.

‘The Forest is the Path’ is an album of contrasts. At times epically joyous, life-affirming and giant - in fact Lightbody calls the album “the biggest sounding record we have ever made” - and the first four tracks are some of the mightiest choruses they have released in their now thirty year career. But it also holds space for moments that are pin-drop quiet and earth-shatteringly devastating.

Lyrically, it’s by far the most laid-bare and most unsparing of the band’s albums Phrases leap out and ambush you, constantly. “I’m only lost if you don’t look for me.” “I’m not going to lie to you anymore, after these lies. Then no more.” “I want to be in love without being loved in return.” “I’ve told myself a million times who you weren’t, so I can finally forget who you were.” “Love is just pain in reverse.” It’s not a record for the faint-hearted, to be sure - but it may just be a salve for the heart that hurts.

The recording sessions with Fraser T Smith were intense and cathartic. All three members describe them as utterly transformative, not least Gary, for whom they were like looking in the mirror and refusing to turn away. Listening to ‘The Forest is the Path’, you feel that his whole journey as a songwriter was fated to arrive at this point. No filter, total honesty and humility, a deep and untiring excavation of the past. Hearing his lyrics and his singing - the best and most beautiful of his career – you feel as if you’re staring into his soul.

Snow Patrol kicked off their return in the summer with a stunning performance at Rock Werchter in Belgium before playing to 30,000 fans at a sold out Thomond Park Stadium in Limerick. After headlining a run of festivals, the band will play two intimate shows at KOKO in London and Ulster Hall in Belfast in the week of album release. They will return to play an 8 date UK and Ireland Arena tour in February 2025.

‘The Forest Is The Path’ tracklisting:

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

SNOW PATROL LIVE DATES

JULY

5th – Rock Werchter, Belgium

7th – Luxexpo, Luxembourg

12th – Thomond Park Stadium, Limerick

21st – Meo Mares Vivas Festival, Portugal

28th – Tramlines Festival, Sheffield

AUGUST

2nd – Y Not Festival, Derbyshire

16th – Hardwick Festival, Sedgefield

23rd – Victorious Festival, Portsmouth

25th – The Big Feastival

UK & Ireland Arena tour

Feb 15th London O2

Feb 16th Birmingham Resorts World Arena

Feb 18th Cardiff Utilita Arena

Feb 19th Hull Connexin Live

Feb 21st Glasgow OVO Hydro

Feb 22nd Manchester Co-op Live Arena

Feb 25th Dublin 3Arena

Feb 27th Belfast SSE Arena