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Fallen Empires - Exclusive Album Playbacks in Malmaison Hotel Bars

The New Album Released 14th November 2011

Multi-platinum Irish/Scottish five-piece Snow Patrol release their sixth studio album ‘Fallen Empires’ on Fiction Records on 14th November 2011. Recorded in Los Angeles with long-time producer Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee, ‘Fallen Empires’ features the hit ‘Called Out In The Dark’ and stunning new single ‘This Isn’t Everything You Are’.

The band are giving their fans the opportunity to hear the full album before release at a series of playbacks in conjunction with Renegade Promotions, taking place in Malmaison hotel bars across the Northern Ireland and Scotland. These are the very first public playbacks of the album anywhere, and take place weeks before album release.

The dates run as follows:

Monday October 31 - Edinburgh Malmaison

Tuesday November 1 - Glasgow Malmaison

Wednesday November 2 - Aberdeen Malmaison

Thursday November 3 - Belfast Malmaison

All events take place from 6-8pm. Please arrive early to guarantee admission, as capacity is limited. Please note that the band will not be attending the events.

In addition to the playbacks, fans attending the playbacks will receive a free album poster, as well as entered into a competition to win a pair of tickets for the upcoming arena tour in February 2012.

The 14-track album breaks new ground for Snow Patrol. Bolting distorted, electro guitar riffs, club-friendly drums and anthemic choruses to Gary Lightbody's heart-bruised lyricism, ‘Fallen Empires’ takes its cues from LCD Soundsystem's ‘The Sound Of Silver’, U2's ‘Achtung Baby’ and Arcade Fire’s ‘The Suburbs’. Despite the experimentation, ‘Fallen Empires’ retains the essence of Snow Patrol’s appeal. The catch-all emotional dynamics are still there: the soulful ‘New York’ feels like a festival moment-in-waiting; ‘The Garden Rules’ a soundtrack to autumnal romance, and in ‘This Isn’t Everything You Are’ Snow Patrol have created another starkly beautiful masterpiece, the equal of their classics ‘Run’ and ‘Chasing Cars’.

‘Fallen Empires’ then, is a suitably weighty follow-up to 2008’s ‘A Hundred Millions Suns’ and the million-selling 2009 collection ‘Up To Now.’ Quite simply, it is their best record to date and promises to redefine Snow Patrol as an altogether more ambitious, more expansive, creative force.

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