It’s amazing how our memories work. Sometimes, all it takes is a breeze blowing by, or a whiff of someone’s cologne to take us back into a vivid image of our past. Personally, a lot of my memories are linked to songs. Good ones and…

Eyes Open is the fourth album released by Snow Patrol, though I hadn’t heard of them or their music until last year. The Northern Ireland indie-rock band (Gary Lightbody, Paul Wilson, Jonny Quinn, Nathan Connolly,and Tom Simpson) has been making music since 1994, but didn’t…