New York

Snow Patrol’s 29th single is estimated, by me, to be the 1,358th song written by a popular artist about the city of New York, but, statistics aside, it simply has to be the most forlorn. The typically lovestricken Gary Lightbody reaches new levels of melancholy on ‘New York’, as he pines for his Stateside sweetheart, telling her, 'I miss it all, from the love to the lightning and begging her to, 'Come on, come out, come here.' Rather than feeling saturated with schmaltz, ‘New York’ is striking, storming and far more triumphant than the relationship it documents.