Premature Evaluation: Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

Stereogum goes into great detail about why their last album was awful (same thing I complained about, "lets remake our hits") and highlights the different direction the bad takes on this record. I am not too impressed with the single, but I am willing to give the album a listen since their first two records are my favorite Travis/Early Radiohead rip-off records to come out in the last ten years. In fact seeing Coldplay with 300 other people at the Showbox at their first US show in 2001 was pretty damn cool.

Now, if Coldplay actually matured and actually made an OK Comptuter, Kid A, or In Rainbows...well, then they'd really have something.