Editing Final Straw (section)

==Background==
The band's [[Artists and repertoire|A&R]] representative Jim Chancellor explained the reasons for choosing rock producer [[Jacknife Lee]] to oversee the record by saying, "I wanted a record for them that was bigger and bolder and a lot different than their previous records. I wanted them to make a more of a rock album than an indie record."<ref name="hitquarters.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_JimChanc.html |title=Interview With Jim Chancellor |publisher=[[HitQuarters]] |date=Oct 26, 2005 |access-date=2010-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905141043/http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview%2Fopar%2Fintrview_JimChanc.html |archive-date=September 5, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Chancellor, Lee and the band chose fifteen songs to start working on out of an original pool of 24.<ref name="hitquarters.com"/> Critical to the new direction was Lightbody's development into a more rounded songwriter. "They played us some songs which were not indie. There were a couple of pop songs and then "[[Run (Snow Patrol song)|Run]]", which is an enormous emotional rollercoaster of a track," said Chancellor.