Snow Patrol have today (May 30) shared new single ‘The Beginning’ and announced their eighth album ‘The Forest Is The Path’ with a supporting 2025 UK and Ireland arena tour.‘The Forest Is The Path’ is the band’s first full-length record in six years, following on from 2018’s ‘Wildness’, and will arrive on September 13 via Polydor.

You can pre-order/pre-save it here.Produced by Fraser T Smith, the album was written by Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid, and features 12 tracks as well as writing credits from Smith, Will Reynolds, Roy Kerr and Troy Van Leeuwen from Queens Of The Stone Age.Speaking about the new single, which was written on a trip to Somerset, Lightbody explained: “The first day we wrote ‘The Beginning’, start to finish.”McDaid added: “And he did the vocal in one take. “Straight after writing the lyrics.

So it has this mind-collapsing quality to it where you feel like you’re seeing into someone’s soul.”Check out the new song here: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’A statement about the upcoming LP described it as “an album rooted in reflection, introspection and interrogation” and about “the idea of love from the distance of time”.Lightbody explained: “I haven’t been in a relationship for a very long time, 10 years or more, so love from a distance to me meant the way a relationship sits in your memory from a distance of, say, 10 years.

Snow Patrol share ‘The Beginning’ and announce new album ‘The Forest Is The Path’ with 2025 UK and Ireland arena tour

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