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Coldplay Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

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Alternative rock giants, Coldplay, return to increase their global success with their fourth studio album, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. Investing the same hunger that has gained them multi-million album sales worldwide, Coldplay arrive back on the music scene with a host of new world tracks that emit charm and make up their most experimental record to date.

Since the release of their Mercury Prize nominated debut, Parachutes, Coldplay have dominated the charts with their soft rock. By sticking to a similar formula with all of their albums, from their acclaimed debut through to 2005's X&Y, Coldplay have constructed one of most recognisable sounds of the British music scene today. Viva La Vida, however, sees the band develop their style further to experiment with creative elements. The opening track is 'Life In Technicolor', a world-pop delight that in a mix of layered chiming and escalating beats erupts into the gothic 'Cemeteries Of London'. While the church organ led 'Lost!' ups the tempo with hand clapping and funky beats, the piano tinkling and strained vocals of Chris Martin on '42' sees Coldplay return to their established formula with a track that resembles their Top 10 hit 'Trouble'. As the catchy piano hook and guitar edge of 'Violet Hill' outlines a political message, the combination of slashing chords and violin bursts on tracks such as 'Viva La Vida' demonstrate fully the inspiration that the band have taken from cultural and musical influences to bring together this eclectic album.

Touching on different style elements, Viva La Vida is Coldplay's grown up album. By taking a new direction musically Coldplay have created a record that contains not only all of the sturdy melodies and universal themes that their fans have come to expect but adds interesting soundscapes to intrigue those less familiar with their enchanting music.

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Track List

Life In Technicolor
Cemeteries Of London
Lost!
42
Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love
Yes
Viva La Vida
Violet Hill
Strawberry Swing
Death And All His Friends

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Brilliant.

SeanToon9 | 05/01/2009 | See all SeanToon9's reviews (4) »

This album is definitly the best album to be released in 2008. Chris and the lads have clearly worked hard on this project because they havnt put a foot wrong.
The opening song, even though it has no lyrics, is an upbeat track which is catchy (and is now also available on theProspekts march EP with lyrics).
The best songs on this album have to be; Life In Technicolor, Violet Hill, Lost!, Lovers in Japan & Viva La Vida.
One song that isnt as catchy is 'Yes'.

Overall, this album is amazing to listen to, and hopefully the next album (rumoured to be released in December 2009) has high expectations due to the reception this album has gained.

Fantastic album!

phadley | 03/01/2009 | See all phadley's reviews (28) »

One of the best albums of 2008. Every track becomes an instant classic. Not a bad track on the whole album. Fantastic stuff! I went to see them live just before Christmas 2008 - amazing.

Great album, weakest of the four though

truetiggs | 14/12/2008 | See all truetiggs' reviews (3) »

Coldplay are a consitant and great band. This is another great album that you can listen to again and again. Just dont raise your hopes too high, its not as strong as the other their others.

Its very different, they are trying to make the music more cleaver, but they seem to have lost a bit of the fun. Still its a great album, I would deffo recommend it to all of you.

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