Coldplay - Viva La Vida
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Artist: ColdplayEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Life In Technicolor
- Cemeteries Of London
- Lost!
- 42
- Lovers In Japan/Reign Of Love
- Yes
- Viva La Vida
- Violet Hill
- Strawberry Swing
- Death And All His Friends
Free Music Notes for Viva La Vida
Free Music Review: Life in Technicolor
Hit: 5 Stars
I have a confession to make: the first time I heard a song by Coldplay, I thought U2 had just released a new album. It was just after 'Clocks' hit the airwaves, and for me, it was the beginning of hearing a slightly different take on a familiar sound. Fast forward a few years to the band's "Viva la Vida" album and the U2 vibe still rings true; with the help of U2 producer Brian Eno, the album has brought Coldplay out of a musical rut and into the light.
Upon listening to the album, several images remain. It truly feels like London, full of darkness, light, history, and modern times. The record opens with 'Life in Technicolor', a vibrant instrumental. However, it quickly changes mood to 'Cemeteries of London', a more haunting song that evokes the mythology of London's darker side. 'Violet Hill' is a bit more rock than we've heard from the band in quite awhile; 'Death and All His Friends' starts out tender and then moves to a near-instrumental. And hit single 'Viva la Vida' uses strings to create a driving beat that is at once addictive and refreshing.
While the last record may have been flat, "Viva la Vida" is an album full of life - color, sound, and imagery. It's impossible to listen to it and not feel that the sun is breaking through the clouds to a new era. It's truly Life in Technicolor.
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To say there has been a lot of anticipation for Coldplay's fourth album, Viva La Vida, is an understatement. Having enlisted legendary leftfield producer Brian Eno, borrowed their album title from a painting by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and made tantalising remarks about sonic reinvention, the world has been curious (to say the least) to hear what the 'new' Coldplay might sound like. Viva La Vida definitely makes some departures from the band's usual formula, which happens to be one of the most commercially successful rock-pop blueprints of recent years. The plangent chords, emotive melodies, stadium-rock rhythms and universal lyrical concerns remain, but Martin and co. have gone out on several limbs here, incorporating instrumental tracks ("Life In Technicolour"), using subtle North African and Latin elements ("Yes", "Strawberry Swing"), and overhauling previously strict verse-chorus-verse structures in favour of slightly more avant arrangements. The old Coldplay still shine through (see tracks like "Violet Hill" and the title song) but even their classic sound feels more muscular and confident. The band's new flourishes, cosmetic and self-conscious as they may be, are enough to make Viva La Vida a welcome break from the old routine --Danny McKenna People en Espa?ol
Cuando Coldplay anunci? con bombo y platillo que su cuarto disco, bajo el ambicioso t?tulo de Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, vendr?a acompa?ado de la producci?n de Brian Eno, dos escenarios se convert?an en posibilidad: o se trataba de su peor ?lbum o la obra maestra de su carrera. Afortunadamente, la producci?n de Eno no lleva a la banda brit?nica a imitar a U2 por ning?n momento, y en cambio, el grupo liderado por Chris Martin presenta el mejor disco en su trayectoria, ofreciendo un sonido distinto, en el que por fin se alejan del pianito hartante de sus primeros tres ?lbumes y suenan como lo que siempre prometieron ser: una de las mejores bandas del mundo. "Life In Technicolor," "Viva la Vida," y sobre todo el tema "Lost!," representan a Coldplay en su momento cumbre. --Ernesto S?nchez (People en Espa?ol
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