The Place We Ran FromTired Pony · 2010

rollingstone

6.0

“Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody calls this collaborative side project, which includes R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, a "twisted love letter to the States" — a very Bono-ish phrase, especially coming from an Irishman given to sweeping visions. But Lightbody works vague elegance, not rootsy specificity, and this mainly sounds like a folky spin on Snow Patrol’s forlorn […]”