The beginning of
Viva La Vida is almost the strongest part of the entire album. The pulsing electronic sound is met with an incredible array of strings and beats, which builds and swells in ways that honestly, none of us were sure
Chris Martin and the boys would ever be able to do again. After the clunker
X&Y bored us to tears, we felt tears of hapiness to hear the "oh oh oh" come in on the records opening track, "Life in Technicolor." And it felt like a transition to color from
X&Y's bland, black and white graveyard of mediocre powerballads and falsetto droning.
Coldplay, it seems, has found their way back to the map.
..Keep Reading.. -
joe puglisi
Coldplay on Tour
7/14 - Los Angeles, CA
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