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Title: Moving from X to Y
Review: In this latest outing, Coldplay reinforce their ability to produce radio songs that translate into all cultures and languages while remaining truely English.How have they changed? Production is the answer. This album sees songs that are slightly less polished and a little more wild at heart but production that trims them back into a purist form. This works well on some songs but on others leaves them a little lacking. The guitars of Buckland have been pushed back in the mix on this album and the melody slimed. It mostly works and like Rush of Blood it grows on you and wins you over more with every play.A thread of 80's british guitar rock runs through this album (Square one, White Shadows, Talk)but blends with ballads (What if, Fix you, Kingdom come) and Coldplays own classic sound in Speed of sound.I still hope that the next album lets a bit of the rough through in the mix and allows the band some space to be their own band.Buy it, you won't regret it.
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