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Snow Patrol

WHAT'S THE STORY? Indie softies layer up the guitars for loud, emotive affair.

TO BE HONEST: Guards up people! This is the musical equivalent of being gazumped by a Titanic movie haymaker - a tide of epic gushingness, gruff guitars and stare-at-the-sky melodrama. Ultimately hollow though. Like a very big tree.

DESCRIBE AS: Ballsier sounding than 'Final Straw'. Rivals to Coldplay. Parka jacketed musicians in snow ploughs.