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Title: Oldplay...or perhaps x & ZZZZZ.
Review: This is cynical 'bored' room music meant to secure high earnings. Martin's half yawn, half yodel vocal style oozes a saccharine sweet sentimentality that many are sure to confuse as passion. Singer Chris Martin is beligerent to suggest that 'X&Y;' is the album that will 'take out U2'. What a slap in the face to their idols.X&Y; finds coldplay teetering between a paint by numbers U2 style and 1980's Ah-ha. It could also be called, clocks the remix album, as every song sounds the same. The music is ethereal, yet lugubrious and flacid. The coldplay formula is simple and by now overexposed.There is no real growth here. Perhaps coldplay have a future mining the past, but the new music shows no growth, or willingness to create.U2... even Ah-ha need not worry, at least musically. Yodel-ay-he-hoo!!!!
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