It is not always the usual suspects who fall prey to alcohol and drugs. Also members of 'good' bands like and were once in a drug addiction clinic. And it turns out that waiting for a new Snow Patrol record took seven years for good reason. After years of abuse of alcohol and cocaine, the so cuddly singer Gary Lightbody was forced to travel to Los Angeles for a series of sessions with an acupuncture
… specialist. It brought the Northern Irishman more than he could have dreamed of: an end to his addictions and the start of a new relationship. Look, with this knowledge in mind, you listen to songs like the Editors-like A Youth Written In Fire (about addiction), the sober What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get? (for friends who are divorced) and Soon (about Lightbody senior's dementia). Musically Wildness contains few surprises, unless it has to be the sample of krautrockers be in the beautiful closing track Life And Death. (RME)more
