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Album reviews: Snow Patrol revisit the past and remind us where it all began

The release of Final Straw’s 20th-anniversary edition has much to please fans, with plenty of extras on this double album

Snow Patrol. Much of their album Final Straw, whose 20th-anniversary edition has just been released, is a pedestrian work in progress, but a few excellent key tracks turned the band into one of the biggest guitar/pop groups of their era

Snow Patrol, Final Straw (Universal/Polydor)

Do anniversaries have a way of making you look into the mirror and ask yourself where in the name of God all those years have gone? Northern Irish/Scottish band Snow Patrol released Final Straw – their third album, produced by Dublin producer Jacknife Lee – 20 years ago. As occasionally happens in the wonderful business of show, the album hit a nerve and catapulted the heretofore niche indie band into ...