Posted by
TheBean on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:36:48 PM
With the release of Viva La Vida, many die-hard anti-Coldplay activists have found their complaints suddenly unjustified. I finally got the chance to listen to the album last night, and it was far better than anything on A Rush of Blood to the Head (their best album to date, if I'm not mistaken). It was darker, more rhythmic, and less formulaic than their former work. Each song flowed fairly smoothly into the next (with the exception of the fourth and fifth tracks).
The high point of the album was track 5 (Yes) which kept an intense beat with strings and pulled off peculiar harmonic violin solos at intervals. The title track was also good stuff.
As usual, Coldplay's videos look weird and forced. Oh well.
You can hear Viva La Vida
here and Yes
here.