Snow Patrol frontman hasn’t forgiven himself for letting down the people in his life. But the band’s new album is a far cry from its angst-ridden predecessor
Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody: ‘I was using alcohol to drown all kinds of different things in me. I didn’t have anything else’
That he would struggle to give his full attention to the people right in front of him is partly explained by his success as a songwriter – and by the jet-set lifestyle that has ensued. Snow Patrol are, after all, one of the biggest Irish bands of the past 20 years.
The Forest Is the Path is Snow Patrol’s first album for six years. Recorded in rural England, it is the work of the group’s three core members: Lightbody, the guitarist Johnny McDaid and the backing guitarist Nathan Connolly. He has learned to be less critical of himself and more accepting of his flaws, and that is the journey chronicled by The Forest Is the Path. The band say that the album explores “the idea of love from the distance of time” – another way of saying that Lightbody has learned to look back on his past without punishing himself. Sobriety was part of that journey.
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