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Title: What Happened?
Review: When I saw on Napster that Snow Patrol had a new release, I sat in front of the computer for an hour. Final Straw has to be one of the most perfect albums ever released, but this doesn't even sound like the same band (much less the same singer). Talk about generic, the opener "You're all I have" is so standard, with obvious lyrics and and the same 3 chords, you'd think 13 year olds would have written it in their garage. Nothing grabs you on this disc, and when it does, something goes horribly wrong. On "Shut your eyes" the spare guitar line reels you in, and the lyrics are intensely intimate; an entreaty only to you, the listener. Then the entire chorus of 20 people (not professional singers) enters the scene and ruins the mood. The rest is bland, bland, bland. "It's beginning to get to me" is a bright spot, though, but not enough to save this repetitive non-effort.
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