Final Straw (20th Anniversary): Gold Vinyl 2LP

On August 4th Snow Patrol release the 20th Anniversary Edition of their classic record Final Straw. The deluxe double LP edition of the album pressed on Gold Vinyl and housed in silver metallic effect gatefold sleeve, includes 12 additional tracks inclusive of never before heard demos, b-sides and the previously unreleased track Tired. Included too are extensive new liner notes from Gary Lightbody alongside writings on Final Straw from Jo Whiley and Fiction Records MD Jim Chancellor.

Final Straw was Snow Patrol’s third album and their major label debut. Written and recorded during a make-or-break period for the quartet, it set them on the path to becoming one of the biggest British guitar groups of the 21st century.

Tracklisting

LP1

A

1. How To Be Dead
2. Wow
3. Gleaming Auction
4. Whatever's Left
5. Spitting Games
6. Chocolate

B

7. Run
8. Grazed Knees
9. Ways & Means
10. Tiny Little Fractures
11. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking
12. Same

LP2

C

1. Steal (Spitting Games B-Side)
2. Stronger Than Before (Demo)
3. By Heart (Demo)
4. We Can Run Away Now They're All Dead And Gone
5. Tired *Previously commercially unreleased
6. Post Punk Progression (Run B-Side)
7. Chocolate (Demo) *Previously unreleased

D

8. Run (Demo) *Previously unreleased
9. Gleaming Auction (Demo) *Previously unreleased
10. Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking (Demo) *Previously unreleased
11. Grazed Knees (Demo) *Previously unreleased
12. Spitting Games (Demo) *Previously unreleased