Coldplay - Prospekt's March
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Free Music Review: Yet more Coldplay...
Hit: 4 Stars
With their current album just 5 months old and still warming up the upper reaches of the charts, Coldplay release an EP of out takes, remixes, and outright new tracks, with the threat of a new album for fall 2009. Are they prolific or what?
"Prospekts March" comprises 8 songs, opening with "Life in technicolor II" which is essentially the instrumental "Life in technicolour" from "Viva la vida..." with lyrics and and more of the upbeat parts. The chorus of this appears again in the closing acoustic (almost Folk) ballad "Now my feet won't touch the ground".
"Postcards from far away" is a 48 second long piano sonata which is simply beautiful but too brief. "Glass of water" is a towering stadium-esque rocker, the type they do so well these days. "Rainy day" is an upbeat song filled with violins and faint dance effects.
"Prospekts March/Poppyfields" as its name implies is a suite of two songs, a laid back dreamy acoustic song ("Prospekts March"), and a chiming 40 second long coda ("Poppyfields").
"Lost" (which always lent itself to a faint Hip hop beat, in my opinion) features a (rather pointless) rap from Chris Martin's chum Jay-Z, while "Lovers in Japan" gets a vaguely discernible makeover as the Osaka Sun Mix.
For Coldplay die-hard fans, worth it just for tracks 2, 3, 4 and 5 alone.
Free Music Review: Should have used "Lost?" version, but otherwise a great collection
Hit: 4 Stars
I've really enjoyed this EP much more than I expected. The new songs are very good and album-worthy. But what I have enjoyed most are two of the alternate versions of songs from Viva La Vida. "Life in Technicolor" didn't make much of an impression on me on VLV, whereas I really like the longer version with lyrics on Prospekt's March. While the new version of "Lovers in Japan" is not notably different from VLV, it is detached from "Reign of Love" with which had been combined into one track on VLV. "Reign of Love" is fine, but it should have been a separate track. I'm grateful that the Prospekt's March version allows me to listen to "Lovers in Japan" on its own. The one part on the EP that didn't work that well for me was the "Lost+" version of "Lost!", which adds a bit of rapping by Jay-Z. Some reviewers clearly like the Jay-Z version, others notably dislike it. Regardless of how you feel about the track, it doesn't really fit in with the feel of the rest of the EP. Instead they should have used the softer, piano-based version called "Lost?" from the Lost EP. That aside, the songs on this EP fit together beautifully to become a complete package that is more than the sum of its parts. Enjoy!Free Music Review: Very cool, but Jay-Z takes one star from our boys
Hit: 4 Stars
I snagged this when it was $5.99 on Amazon a little while ago, and was quite pleased by what I heard.
Life in Technicolor II is -- like its predecessor on VLV -- an incredible, infectious opening number, and I'd go so far to say that with its greater length, plus vocals, is even better that the original. And I'm thrilled that they've provided a version of "Lovers in Japan" as a stand-alone version; truthfully, I don't care for the "Reign of Love" 2nd part on VLV.
Rather than do a complete song-by-song review/critique, let me just say that nearly all the other songs on this cd are creative, musically pleasing and a continuing sign that Coldplay is going to be a band that will evolve and stay on the scene for a long time.
One downer is the Jay-Z guest rap on "Lost!" Talk about an Excedrin moment, ouch. I cringe to think of the reviews had Coldplay included this one on VLV; Jay ruins what is my favorite VLV song.
All in all, a solid addition to the published Coldplay repertoire!
Free Music Review: More of his friends
Hit: 4 Stars
(3 & 1/2 stars) This new EP is a nice companion piece to Viva La Vida, containing some very good songs of its own. Nothing ultra-amazing, certainly nothing to approach V-La-V's glorious title track, but still some material worth exploring. In fact three of the eight songs are variations of tunes from the full album, a more rocking "Life in Technicolor ii," an alternate mix of "Lovers in Japan," and "Lost+." The latter is the weakest of the three "Lost" versions on a recent 4-song download, but the other two V-L-V revisits are interesting enough. Of the new tunes, I really liked "Postcards from Far Away," a short but lovely, classical-sounding piano instrumental, and "Glass of Water." The EP's closing number, "Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground" is a relatively disposable folkish tune. Overall, though, I appreciate the additional material supplementing Viva La Vida.Free Music Review: Extraordinary "bonus" from Coldplay.
Hit: 4 Stars
I have to admit, I didn't know these new songs were coming after the release of Vida la Vida. Oddly, if this particular release were all that ever came out I would have been happy. So...bonus!
I don't think it's a stretch to argue that Prospect's March is the best song on both recordings.
"Don't you wish your life could be as simple
As fish swimming around in a barrel
Where you've got the gun"
Simply perfect. The imagery portrayed in this song is haunting.
Chris's piano work on track 2, "Postcards,: is as beautiful as I've heard from Coldplay, or any other artist in recent memory. I hope they've still got a few more albums left in them, but fear they're ready to call it a day as a band.
Highly recommended if you're a Coldplay fan.