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Coldplay
- A Rush Of Blood To The Head
[1] Politik
[2] In My
Place
[3] God Put
A Smile Upon Your Face
[4] The Scientist
[5] Clocks
[6] Daylight
[7] Green
Eyes
[8] Warning
Sign
[9] A Whisper
[10] A Rush
Of Blood To The Head
[11] Amsterdam
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This chart-topping
album is the highly anticipated follow-up to Coldplay's critically
lauded, multi-platinum selling debut, ‘Parachutes’.
Coldplay
are one of the more recent additions to the nowadays all-too-abundant
ranks of British guitar bands, many of whow we have grown accustomed
to seeing fall apart on the brink of superstardom, with the Verve
being a perfect example - a fantastic, critically and publicly
acclaimed band who fell apart just as they achieved mainstream
success. Coldplay, on the other hand, seem different. The band
appear to be working in perfect harmony with each other, this
album displaying guitarist Jonny Buckland's incendiary melodies
punctuating perfectly frontman Chris Martin's hushed vocals, which
seem to have a discovered a deeper octave since displaying unashamedly
falsetto tones on tracks such as the crowd-pleasing ‘Yellow’. |
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Listening
to the 11-tracks on ‘A Rush Of Blood...’, one could
cite influences ranging from the obvious - ‘The Bends’-era
Radiohead - to the obsure - Icelandic chill-out merchants Sigúr
Rós. Obvious highlights include the instantly memorable ‘In
My Place’, the majestic piano-led ‘The Scientist’
and the anthemic title track. Any burden placed by the legacy of
their debut album, ‘Parachutes’, is immediately dispelled
upon listening to any one of these songs, as this album excels it's
predecessor in almost every way imaginable. The only blemish on
this otherwise immaculate aural landscape is the disappointingly
folky ‘Green Eyes’, which perhaps would have been more
at home as a B-Side to it's only melodic brethren on the album,
‘Warning Sign’.
But despite this shortcoming, this album is essential listening
for any fan of the finer indie acts, such as the afore-mentioned
Radiohead, Red House Painters, or a ballad-mode Stone Roses, and
should keep any listener, whatever their musical inclinations, enthralled
right from the pounding opening of ‘Politik’ through
to the final fade-out of the mesmerising closing track, ‘Amsterdam’.
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Darragh
Walsh
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