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Title: Like tasting a great wine
Review: This album took a few listens for me to appreciate its advances over Parachutes and A Rush of Blood, but now I can't stop listening to it. The major advances are that overall the album is considerably more epic and that *every single song* is very good, both lyrically and musically. As for Coldplay detractors' claims of influence--so what? Hearing influence in music is like tasting wine--some people taste strawberries and others pepper in the same bottle, some people both, whether in the nose, on the palette, or in the finish. Yet the wine doesn't contain any strawberry or pepper. So, if you like strawberries or pepper, what's the problem? I taste in this album everything from the common U2 to the obscure Nick Drake (and yes, Radiohead, but also even some fun counterbalance from Duran Duran and perhaps a hint of Jefferson Airplane) with an interesting range in every song that has a nose-palette-finish progression of emotions, paired with consistently formidable lyrics.
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