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Title: ....Actually not illiterate, just well under ten years old.
Review: In my daughter's defence, the new Coldplay CD is hugely disappointing. Muzak, almost. Spurred on by rave reviews in Q magazine and other reputable journals I gave X&Y repeated listens and almost persuaded myself of it's worth. I then played Sea Change (Beck) which I had bought at the same time as the Coldplay album. The contrast blew Chris Martin and his weary, formularic ditties clean out of the water. There is nothing on X&Y which has the power to stop you dead and and force you to listen as Yellow did,for example. This music is not from the heart,if Coldplay are now reduced to Stadium rock and the brandishing of Zippos then their moment has well and truly passed.
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