They have done it again!
They being the alternative rock band from England, the ones who gave us The Scientist, Clocks, Yellow and more recently, Talk. Yes, I’m writing about Coldplay and their latest offering, Viva La Vida / Death And All His Friends.
Somehow I had not managed up until now to lay my hands on their latest offering – and now that I have, I feel that I should have done this quite some time before. This is one album that I liked the first time I heard it. It is very Coldplayesque, unlike the previous X&Y. The music is distinctly their style – mellow, meaningful (if you go looking for it) and deep. Yes, it is a bit heavier and louder than say that in Parachutes, but that’s okay.
Viva had tinges of sadness in many of their songs – not the feeling of sadness per se, but that feeling you get when you start realize that you are losing something that you deeply cherish because you somehow didn’t try harder holding on to it – and it is almost too late. Don’t listen to it when you are rather happy, you might positively hate it.
So personal favourites so far – Life in Tecnicolour, Lost, Lovers in Japan, Violet Hill and Strawberry Swing. Of course, if you ask me tomorrow, it’ll be rather difficult to select these, because I’ll start liking the entire album by then.
And they even have a song titled 42. Now how cool is that?
Overall, beautiful stuff, especially for those nights when you’d want to sort of instropsect. Happy listening!