Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody has posted a message on the band's official website to update fans on progress on the new album, describing it as 'bigger and bolder' than previous material.
The post read: "At the end of the third week in the studio and things are going great. We've completed (minus vocals which we'll do at the end) eight songs and they're sounding great (I'll put the trumpet away now). Most of the titles will change as I'm still tinkering with lyrics so to give you song names now would just be confusing. One that hasn't changed is chasing cars which we played on our last US tour and the shows we did with u2 and in Ireland, so some of you may know it. It's sounding pretty big."