Snow Patrol & Kylie Collaborate On New Single ‘These Alarms’
This marks the first team up between Snow Patrol and Kylie Minogue.
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Northern Irish rockers Snow Patrol have shared new single ‘These Alarms’, a collaboration with Australia’s Princess of Pop Kylie Minogue.
Written by Snow Patrol with Kylie specifically in mind, ‘These Alarms’ is a surging pop rocker featuring Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody and Kylie’s delightfully soaring vocals.
Originally recorded for their 2024 album The Forest is the Path, Snow Patrol decided to hold off on releasing the song until they could record it with Kylie.
“As a huge Kylie fan, I originally wrote ‘These Alarms’ with her in mind,” explains Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody. “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.”
Kylie says, “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.”
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Snow Patrol have been one of the biggest bands to come out of Northern Ireland over the past 30 years, evolving from indie upstarts to stadium rockers.
Ammasing over 17 million album sales and more than 4.5 billion streams, the band have released two UK #1 Albums – 2006’s Eyes Open and 2024’s The Forest is the Path – and broke through into the mainstream in 2006 with their global smash hit ‘Chasing Cars’, the most played song of the 21st century on UK radio.
As for Kylie Minogue, what more needs to be said? The Aussie dynamo has sold over 80 million records worldwide, amassed 10 UK #1 albums and 9 #1 albums in Australia (the most for any female Australian artist) and scored a whopping 18 ARIA Awards, four BRIT Awards, two Grammys and two MTV Awards. She is the definition of a legend.
Along with being released digitally, ‘These Arms’ will be available as a limited-edition 7” physical vinyl.
‘These Alarms’ by Snow Patrol and Kylie is out now via BMG. Listen here. Pre-order the limited-edition 7” physical vinyl here.
