Album Review Coldplay

Personnel: Chris Martin, vocals piano, Jon Buckland, guitar, Will Champion, drums, and Guy Berryman, bass.

Coldplay recently won a Grammy award for Parachutes for Best Alternative Album. The only thing wrong with that is that Parachutes deserved to be nominated for Best Album. All of the quartet attended the University College of London. All four had been playing instruments since their early teens and been influenced by likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Eric Clapton. With only their full-debut album and a few EPs they have already joined the ranks of England’s elite including Oasis, Verve, and Radiohead. They are drawing comparisons with Scotland’s Travis and the late Jeff Buckley, who I recently have also taken an interest to. This album also earned the band a Mercury Music Prize nomination and won

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The hypnotic guitaring and beautiful melody and lyrics make this song an appropriate finally for a great album. That along with the simplistic lyrics gives the perfect preview and insight to what this album is really like. This album ends with a sort of interlude at the end of the last song that almost sounds like a dedication. Many may have first heard their first single Yellow on ABC, because in 2000 it was chosen as the theme song for their sports promotion spots. Other highlights include the two middle tracks, which are also the releases to date, Yellow and Trouble. To me that is a very rare thing these days. This band has enjoyed almost instant success after signing with their label in April 1999. When Buckland is not playing spaced out electric guitar melodies he is playing simplistic acoustic melodies. Yellow the hardest rocking track sets you up for the apologetic and melodic Trouble, arguably the best song on the album. The whole album sounds like it was written for someone, which gives it sincere and passionate feeling. Which makes it appropriate for to listen to anytime, unlike some the above-mentioned artists that can seem limited to an appropriate time and place, like a rainy day. Just like the rest of the album it has a very simple but layered sound that you can’t help but appreciate.

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