the_escapist

I agree!

I'll come back here when the album is released and I have heard every song a lot of times - so I can tell you my opinion on the perfect Viva La Vida Tour Setlist!!! cheers!!

it's a cutted version of Death And All His Friends then, because I can't hear the lyrics that are written on the artwork of the coldplay.com extras!!!

then what song it is?

LOL!!! I gotta say I was angry for the album has officially leak thread! but I have to give him credit for this one!!! LOL!! LOL!!! He's the funniest guy alive after Chris Martin!!!

Can't wait to hear the album and give my review!! by the way, thank you for posting the article!!!

3 out of 5 is what X & Y got on Rolling Stone review - And taking aside what the band says, X & Y was fucking awesome!!! So, it's not a bad review!!! Can't wait to hear the album though!!! That way I can make my own review!!!

Congratulations Mr. Will Champion!!!!

Benjamin Jones!!! You were mentioned by Chris Martin on Glastonbury 2005!!! Awesome you're here!!!! I'll send you my question very soon!!! Cheers! the_escapist, from Caracas - Venezuela

Locust is Tsucol

thank you very much! you must feel like the luckiest guy on earth!!! hopefully the album will leak soon and we will be as happy as you! I was hoping you could keep writing more details as you remember things each day!!! cheers!!!

that's right - but at least is something to read until the album is released!

you're so right!!! i'm calm because of the fact that we will soon get more songs than the ones that are on the album!!!

I don't think so... I think we will have to wait for LP5 to see Coldplay at it's best... Besides, I think that you have to hear the whole album to really tell if the album is incredible or not!!! However, I think this album is going to be great, surely the album of the year!!! cheers!!!

That's what I thought!!! I am going to start praying for that to happen A.S.A.P. you're welcome guys!!! cheers!!

First review of Coldplay album by Gordon Smart AN album by some band I had never heard of landed on my desk yesterday. I nearly lobbed it in the drawer of unheard music next to SCOUTING FOR GIRLS’ last release. But the innocuous sleeve with an obscure codename was in fact holding the biggest album of the year — possibly the decade. I can bring you the first full review of the new COLDPLAY CD, out on June 12. And I think epic is the word. The full title — Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends — should have been a clue. The band have really pushed the boundaries of what we expect from an album, producing a beautiful, serious and sometimes testing 45-minute disc. The attention to detail is incredible. You can imagine CHRIS MARTIN, GUY BERRYMAN, JONNY BUCKLAND and WILL CHAMPION obsessing over every note and word in this, their fourth album. The boys have developed and evolved their songwriting with each of their albums — from Parachutes, released in 2000, to A Rush of Blood To The Head two years later, then X&Y and now this. They haven’t gone off the rails with drugs and booze, churning out rubbish, like many a band before them. This latest album — much of which was recorded in churches in Spain and and Latin America — is full of religious references. It’s as heavy-going as the Bible but as ultimately as rewarding if that’s your bag. The CD comes to life with a brilliant, glittering instrumental opener Life In Technicolour. It’s just a shame it doesn’t burst into a full track, lyrics and all, because it could have been the best on the album. The atmospheric, haunting Cemeteries Of London follows next and is one of the songs clearly blessed by holy water. Lost! is layered over the sort of tribal drum beat that, with all the talk of world music influences, some were expecting to be more dominant on the record. A track called 42 — which again is littered with references of ghosts and heaven — has been rumoured to be the album’s conquering centrepiece. But I think there are even better songs. And as with many on this complex CD, it’s like two or more tracks in one. So are — as the titles suggest — Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love, Yes/Chinese Sleep Chant and Death And All His Friends/The Escapist. Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love is a classic. Parts are slightly U2-esque and you could almost imagine BONO singing it. It’s a beautiful rolling number and I can picture Chris running through a field in the video. I reckon the album’s first single, Violet Hill — the video for which features magnifying-glass-wielding Chris, inset below — is its lightest and most pop-friendly offering. Coldplay released the track free online for a week on April 29 — during which time an amazing TWO MILLION people downloaded it. I can imagine Chris pulling at his hair as the band perfected every single second of Viva La Vida. They set out to make a musical equivalent of a work of art — and succeeded. They’ve come a long way since singing about the colour yellow. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1202492.ece

awesome! Chris being very very funny yet again!!! That man has charm!!! cheers!!! and thank you very much!

LOL!!!! LOL!!! good one guys!!!

dear locust!!! I don't know who are you, and I really don't care - - - but can you please private message me a link to the whole album? cheers!!! lol!!!

Why don't you just leak the whole album on the best possible quality!!! We have heard half the album anyways, and don't worry - many people won't listen until the album is released!!! So... LEAK! LEAK! LEAK!!! I can't wait until June 11th!!!

good song - i can't give a final verdict until I hear it on a better quality file!!! don't like the lyrics so much! by the way, releasing a song on the most popular TV show is not a new thing for Coldplay - I remember in 2005 they released Fix You, before the album was out on The O.C. cheers!!!

May is finishing and June will be Coldplay month for sure!!! I wish I could hear the whole album right now!!! See ya tomorrow then!!! cheers!!!

you haven't heard Viva La Vida? what about Violet Hill? I admire you!!! How can you wait until the album is released!!! That's an amazing trait!! congrats!!! When you get to hear the album, it will be like an orgasm!

it's only an ad to promote LP4!!! hopefully Viva La Vida video will be much cooler!!! cheers!!!

Those are YES lyrics... cheers!