CD: Snow Patrol: One Hundred Million Suns

It's not often you can call an album unambitious when it closes with a 16-minute, three-part epic. But this is Snow Patrol, purveyors of Eyes Open, a band whose vaguely consoling Celtic rock is so unremarkable as to muffle such novelties. It is just there, more or less benign, like lint or leaf litter.There is nothing radically wrong with their fifth album, which is an efficient update of their past two multi-platinum efforts. Straighter Patrol fans may baulk at the skitter of beats that play ac...

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