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COLDPLAY - X&Y
| BBC Music |
| You've heard the single, read the reviews and listened to the interviews; everything suggests Coldplay's new album is going to be great. But it's not until you hear the first few bars of the opening track that you know that the band are going to achieve everything they hoped and dreamed of....full text |
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| PasteMagazine |
| Coldplay graduated from “intriguing” to “important” with 2002’s A Rush of Blood to the Head, a musically and thematically bold statement as fully realized as any album to come along in the post-album era. As it turns out, they weren’t finished upping the ante—not by a long shot. “Speed of Sound,” the first single from their big-stakes follow-up, X&Y, reveals the hand they’re playing: a piano riff as memorable as the one in “Clocks,” ringing guitars, martial drums, orchestral pomp and, in the center, Chris Martin’s keening vocal, so vulnerable and yet forceful enough to stand out from the mass of sonic detail. But “Speed of Sound” is just the tip of the iceberg....full text |
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| NME |
| This album cannot fail. That is a bald statement of fact....full text |
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