Pop sensations Snow Patrol and Kylie Minogue team up on upbeat, hopeful, energetic new single ‘These Alarms‘.
Following on from ‘The Only Noise‘, the rock band continue to deliver emotionally driven songs on themes of finding love, intimacy, growing throughout life, and learning from mistakes; they create heartfelt lyrics that touch the heart and uplifting music that fills the rhythm in your body.
Their new single does exactly this, especially adding the iconic singer Kylie Minogue featured on their new release. Blending Kylie’s vocals with Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody’s vocals ignites the track, creating beautiful melodies and harmonies that make the song a comfort to listen to.
Not only this, but both their voices combined, singing with passion and warmth about finding intimacy and holding onto someone for help and support, trying to find your safe place within someone, grounds the song with even more delicate emotion, creating a warming atmosphere where you feel at ease while listening to the sentimental lyrics. “Yeah/Don’t give in to loneliness/When everything is such a mess/Just hold me in your arms (Ooh-oh)/Yeah/I don’t want the world from you/I’m just wanting something true/Far from these alarms (Ooh-oh; Damn).”
‘These Alarms’ focuses on the powerful message of hope and not giving in on finding that special kind of love or friendship which makes you feel a bit happier and something which is a source of comfort to you, finding that special something you can lean on, without judgement.
“As a huge Kylie fan I originally wrote These Alarms with her in mind. I played it to Johnny and Nathan and they loved it and we decided to record it for our (most recent) album The Forest Is The Path. All the way through the recording process the song was simply called ‘KYLIE’. But when we finished the song we quickly realised something huge was missing from it. We all knew it was Kylie’s voice that was the missing piece. Nate suggested we send it to her to see if she would join us on it. So, in hope (and with many fingers and toes crossed) we sent it off, it reached Kylie and we heard back that she liked it. Kylie recorded her wonderful voice on it and finally the song felt complete. From the minute she recorded her vocals we knew, to properly honour Kylie and the song, it needed to have a life on its own and not be buried somewhere on an album, but live in its own universe, because the song had its own very unique genesis, journey and destination. We could not be more delighted to be releasing a song with Kylie, the queen of pop herself, out into the world.”
Gary Lightbody, Snow Patrol
The story behind this song was irresistible… Hearing there was a demo called Kylie that had been living in the Snow Patrol archives was a complete surprise and, naturally, I was curious to hear it. Gary is such a brilliant songwriter, so to be invited into the band’s world is a total honour.”
Kylie Minogue
Formed in 1994, rock band Snow Patrol went on to become one of the many popular rock bands in the music industry, selling over 15 million albums worldwide. From hits such as ‘Chasing Cars‘ and ‘Run‘, Snow Patrol keeps the positive energy of rock alive, touching many hearts out there as they bring electricity to their songs and stages.
Why not listen to their new single ‘These Alarms‘ now?