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★ 6.0
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Live 2003
“A solid but uneven snapshot of Coldplay at their early peak. The performances are earnest and emotionally charged, with Chris Martin delivering his usual mix of vulnerability and crowd-pleasing charisma. Songs like Clocks and The Scientist land especially well, benefiting from the band’s tight dynamics and ability to build atmosphere live. Musicianship is strong across the board but that’s also part of the issue. There’s a slight lack of spontaneity or reinterpretation, making some tracks feel more like polished recreations than truly live evolutions. The song selection leans heavily on A Rush of Blood to the Head, which makes sense given the era, but it leaves less room for deeper cuts or surprises. As a result, it works best as a time capsule rather than a definitive live statement: capturing the band’s rise, but not quite transcending it. Fav Track Everything’s Not Lost”
Cole
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★ 8.0
album
Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
“Couldn’t pick one favourite. Coldplay at their most ambitious: an album that trades stadium-safe comfort for texture, atmosphere, and thematic cohesion. Lyrically, Chris leans into historical imagery, mortality, and fallen grandeur, most strikingly on the title track, where the perspective of a dethroned king gives the record a sense of conceptual unity. The words are less diaristic than before, more mythic, and it suits the scale they’re reaching for. The band expands their palette with baroque strings, layered acoustics, and subtle electronic touches, guided by Eno’s atmospheric sensibilities. Tracks bleed into one another, motifs recur, and the album feels deliberately sequenced. The musicianship is restrained but purposeful, favouring mood and cohesion over virtuosity, which ultimately strengthens the record’s identity. It’s Coldplay’s most fully realized work: a loose meditation on life, death, war, and rebirth that holds together without feeling rigid. It doesn’t always land emotionally with the same immediacy as their earlier material, but its ambition and craft make it their most complete statement. Fav Track(s) Viva la Vida / Violet Hill”
Cole
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★ 10.0
album
A Rush of Blood to the Head
“Politik is the perfect intro to a perfect album. It’s got this pounding energy that feels like a storm. It’s really cool. I grew up with this band and this record in particular. It made me want to play the piano, and three songs on the record are the first three songs I ever learned to play (Clocks being the first). But more than that sentimentality, it’s a strong record. The music is diverse and intricate, and his voice does a lot of nice runs that really showcase his abilities. And that ending is just sublime. Fav Track In My Place”
Cole
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★ 8.0
album
Parachutes
“There’s a universe wherein Shiver is more popular than Yellow. That song is the perfect intro to the album and it’s not even the intro, which is a shame. Don’t Panic is a great song, but it lacks a certain power for an introduction and isn’t light enough to be a proper prelude. It’s interesting. What follows is one of the 2000s finest debuts. The songwriting is earnest, the music is strong, and it has a perfect ending, perhaps the finest in Coldplay’s catalogue. Fav Track Shiver”
Cole
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