VH1.com's first look at X&Y

Just thought I'd let you guys know that vh1.com has posted an article on their first impressions of hearing songs from Coldplay's new album X&Y.

"Fan and industry expectations for X&Y are almost impossibly high (it'll have to both resonate longer and sell more copies than 2003's globe-uniting A Rush of Blood to the Head to be considered a success). And now that Martin is the band's breakout — actually probably only — star, it's pretty safe to say that this is the first record where his lyrics will be analyzed with a fine-toothed comb. And so, with all that in mind, and with the gaze of millions of eyes upon them, how would Coldplay respond?

By making X&Y a complex, shimmering, airy, dark, near-ambient, stadium-rocker of an album that manages to sound (in sections) like Brian Eno, the Beatles, Grandaddy, Mercury Rev and Basil Poledouris' score to "Conan the Barbarian" — but also like every Coldplay album ever released. Which is no easy feat."

[thanks Anonymous]

For more on this article visit the link below:

http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1500276/20050415/coldplay.jhtml?headlines=true