Somehow Coldplay have managed to weave themselves a magic carpet again. At first hearing I wasn’t overly enthusiastic about their new single Violet Hill, it all sounded a bit confused, like Chris Martin was going through some teenage angst and turned up the volume on his electric guitar and then swaying back into his minor chord based codas.
Despite not being strongly persuaded from the occasional hearings, I could not escape the corporate beast of the Music Industry which backs them, the song is played everywhere and they have also created a healthy buzz on the street about it. Though I imagine in part that can be attributed to the fact that Coldplay have risen to the status of legend, amongst the likes of Radiohead, where anything they release will be well recieved by a section of the listeners just because of the pedigree the band symbolise.
All that to say then, that I have become quite a fan of Coldplay’s new single Violet Hill…Im almost positive I’ll buy their new album when it comes on release as I have bought all the others, so I decided (in a moment of ethical subjectivism) I could go ahead and download it. If you haven’t heard it check it out.
