12.SNOW PATROL - Final Straw

This was everywhere for most of the year, and so has lost some of the sheen it had when I bought it based on a review in The Times, the day it came out.  I thought it was great, but unfortunately the rest of the world did too.  So now the singles get on my nerves because they play them at me in Woolworth’s and in the pub and everywhere, but this is still a great album.  ‘Somewhere a Clock is Ticking’ is a truly brilliant song, and as a whole the album is top draw indie fare.