YOU’RE ALL I HAVE - SNOW PATROL
This optimistic rocker is less melodramatic than starry-eyed pop hit “Chasing Cars,” which jumped out of “Grey’s Anatomy” and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, offering a catchy love letter to a girl who is “Cinematic razor sharp/A welcome arrow through my heart.” Intoxicated by just two chords, nice-guy frontman Gary Lightbody unleashes another giant hook and manages to sound humble and sincere, almost embarrassed. With its polished buzz-saw guitars and open-hearted chorus, “You’re All I Have” hews close to “Hands Open,” the first single that name-dropped Sufjan Stevens, but conjures Del Amitri and the Goo Goo Dolls. There is nothing original here, only simplicity grilled to perfection, which sometimes is more than enough. Billboard
