Scottish-Irish alt-rock outfit Snow Patrol broke into the mainstream with their 2003 major-label debut Final Straw, a collection of earnest tunes aligned with the sounds of contemporaries like Coldplay, Keane, and Travis. They followed up with the multi-platinum success of 2006's Eyes Open, which featured the international hit single "Chasing Cars," and continued with a pair of U.K. Top Ten platinum efforts, A Hundred Million Suns (2008) and Fallen Empires (2011). After an extended six-year hiatus, during which time frontman Gary Lightbody worked as a songwriter for pop artists, the band returned with Wildness in 2018
