Colplay "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends"

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Rating: 9.3
Release Date: 12 June 2008
Recommended Songs: "Viva La Vida", "42", "Violet Hill, "Chinese Sleep Chant"

Coldplay is on the move. With its powerful sound, Coldplay's new album "Viva La Vida" raises the band to new levels. Throughout the course of its 46 minutes, "Viva" traps you, captures every one of your senses and gives concrete proof of why it deserves the success its bound to obtain. Wether it is the Radiohead-ish "The Escapist" or the loopy "Chinese Sleep Chant", Chris Martin gives life to his lyrics ("Time is so short/ And I'm Sure/ There Must be Something More" :: 42). In this, the record doesn't deviate from its purpose. It knows how good it is and delivers.

There is clearly something different inside the band. This isn't the dragging Coldplay which brought song after song with the same melancholy. "Viva La Vida", the album's second single is proof of this. Easily the best Coldplay song, "Viva" and its violins, tell the story (in an upbeat, shifting manner) of a fallen king. Last week, the song reached a new peak of #3 in the Billboard Hot 100, the band's highest charting single. "Violet Hill", with its majestic usage of guitar and drums, dives into another dimension; Martin appears to be somewhere far more trascendant than a studio.

"Cemeteries of London", "Death And All His Friends" and "Strawberry Swing" all carry the similar strength and conviction."Reign of Love", remniscient of their prior effort "Till Kingdom Come", is very well one of the softest moments of the record, while "Yes" is one of the weakest.

It is clear. Martin, Buckland, Champion and Berryman are set to embark on a new style which will give new airs to the band and help it on its way to legendary.

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