Bry (singer) Snow Patrol drummer and founder (alongside band mates Gary Lightbody and Nathan Connolly) of Polar Patrol Publishing, to check out the singer-songwriter’s YouTube channel. In 2015, Bry toured the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. In November 2015, it was announced on his secondary YouTube channel that he would be flying to Los Angeles to record his debut studio album with producer Greg Wells, who has produced for the likes of Katy Perry, Twenty One Pilots and Adele. The album, eponymously titled "Bry", was released on 11 November 2016. In February 2016, Bry announced his next UK and Ireland tour
Crack the Shutters "fully formed". The initial version of the song has the same structure as the version that appears on the album. The lyric 'crack the shutters open wide' was the first that came to Lightbody, who further commented that it's "the most natural song on the album, it's about the most natural thing in the world". At the time of the release of the album, SP.com posted a section featuring lead singer and lyricist Gary Lightbody discussing the new songs, which was initially a Lightbody interview to RTÉ. About "Crack the Shutters", he said it was the purest love song he'd