I feel we do a lot of throwbacks around here, and its hard for you readers to keep up with them. Mine tend to revolve around a single song by artists that aren’t particularly active right now, and hence I’m switching up the style and going with a new title.

Final Straw represents the finest album of Snow Patrol’s career, and one of the immortal indie/alternative albums: full of fantastic music, they effortlessly drifted through a few styles from start to finish. Whilst it seems Chocolate was the majority’s favourite from the album, How To Be Dead represents the highlight of Final Straw for me.

Using contemplative melodies to create an enchanting backdrop, this is undoubtedly a benchmark example of intimate music. The lyrics are the real beauty of the track, as their honesty in detailing the nature of a couple’s argument is so grounded in reality its hard to not relate. There’s no advanced wordplay or exaggerated delivery: the song is written with a sharp realism, and sung with a hypnotising calmness that with both captivate and relax you. One of the all-time great songs.

Snow Patrol-How To Be Dead

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