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Snow Patrol's latest album A Hundred Million Suns was partially recorded at Berlin's Hansa Studios, where David Bowie and Brian Eno laid to tape some of their famed late-1970s trilogy. I would expect that will be just about the last time this new disc is compared with Low. And hey, speaking of trilogies, Suns ends with one-- just like Daydream Nation, another album with which it's likely to share little else in common.

Anyhow, the Jacknife Lee-produced A Hundred Million Suns will arrive October 27 in the UK and October 28 in the States on Polydor/Fiction/Geffen. Fans can opt for a regular CD version, a deluxe CD/DVD combo, a slab of vinyl, or a digital download. First single "Take Back the City", meanwhile, is due in UK shops in CD and 7" formats on October 13, and due in a climactic scene in a television drama shortly thereafter.

Snow Patrol, finally, plan to hit four metropolises in just two days on their "Take Back the Cities" tour, which kicks off later this month.

A Hundred Million Suns:

01 If There's a Rocket, Tie Me to It
02 Crack the Shutters
03 Take Back the City
04 Lifeboats
05 The Golden Floor
06 Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands
07 Set Down Your Glass
08 The Planets Bend Between Us
09 Engines
10 Disaster Button
11 The Lightening Strike:
i) What If the Storm Ends?
ii) Sunlight Through the Flags
iii) Daybreak

Snow Patrol:

10-26 Dublin, Ireland - The Gate Theatre (early show)
10-26 Belfast, Northern Ireland - The Empire
10-27 Edinburgh, Scotland - Assembly Room (early show)
10-27 London, England - Bloomsbury Theatre