Semi-tech related here. I’m a little late with this, but Coldplay are offering up a free sample track from their new album “Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends”.
If I’m honest, I was hoping that they would respond to the side of the mixed criticism of their previous album “X&Y” that said they should never have drifted from the quintessentially ‘coldplay’ sound, by making the mistake of adding synth sound effects, and moving away from the more authentic of acoustic based music, and lyrics that took the classics – love and life – in an entirely new way.
It’s not that X&Y, or the new track “Violet Hill”, was bad music. By any other band, I would have thought that they were a good sound. But unfortunately, Coldplay have departed from the sound that endeared them to people around the world.
With Violet Hill, Coldplay appear to be trying to prove something to the world, as seen in the interview after the jump. I’m beginning to think that the genius that gave the world Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood To The Head is fading, replaced by a more generic sound.
Violet Hill is a good track, but not through yellow-tinted glasses. Is Coldplay’s clock ticking away?
Get the track ‘Violet Hill’ here.
