Snow Patrol returns, announcing first album in 6 years

After a six-year break, Irish Alt-rockers Snow Patrol will return with their first new release this fall, offering up 12 fresh tracks on their eighth studio album The Forest Is the Path.

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Following up 2018’s Wildness , Snow Patrol -- featuring members Gary Lightbody , Johnny McDaid, and Nathan Connolly as well as contributions from Will Reynolds , Roy Kerr , and Queens of the Stone Age ’s Troy Van Leeuwen -- are getting set to drop The Forest Is the Path on September 13 via Polydor Records. The new offering was produced by Fraser T Smith , who in the past has worked with the likes of Adele , Sam Smith , Foo Fighters , Stormzy , and more -- and fans can listen to the first single, “The Beginning,” below.

“We had a few wee ideas kicking about that would eventually be recorded and find their way onto the album but when Johnny and I found ourselves in the Somerset countryside about to start writing for this album in earnest ‘The Beginning’ was written on the very first day,” Snow Patrol revealed on Instagram about the release. “That’s why it’s called the beginning in fact.”

The band continued , “This album took us on many uncharted routes, with sometimes weird and sometimes wonderful turns, and so it’s hard not to think of the start of this album as a new beginning. We honour the past, deeply. This is our thirtieth year, so we have an awful lot of it, past I mean. Tons of it. We have a profound love and respect for all who have been on this journey with us those many years. But while we honour the past we also want to cherish the present and look to the future. So this is the beginning of something, and we are so excited to share it with you all.”

Check out the official album art and tracklisting for The Forest Is the Path below. Pre-orders are available now. Plus, stay tuned for news about North American tour dates as the band has already announced EU and UK shows scheduled for next year.

Snow Patrol - 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