Don’t Panic
Shivers
Spies
Sparks
Yellow
Trouble
Parachutes
High Speed
We Never Change
Everything’s Not Lost
Coldplay: Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin.
Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 - ’’...Straight-ahead, melodic Brit pop that strives for
’significance’ with a capial ’s’....[The album] rises above its influences to become a work of
real transcendence...’’
Rolling Stone’s comment on the album could not be more correct!!
In 2000, a small wave of British pop bands clearly heavily influenced by Radiohead’s brand
of anthemic mope rock arose, with Travis, Muse, and Coldplay at the forefront. Coldplay
are the most clearly Radiohead-like, and their US debut the 10-song PARACHUTES,
should appeal to any fans of OK COMPUTER or THE BENDS who found KID A too
weird for their tastes. (Coldplay even swipe a song title, ’’Don’t Panic, ’’ from Douglas
Adams, as Radiohead did with ’’Paranoid Android.)
The soaring although depressing single ’’Shiver’’ is a masterpiece of swelling emotion, and
the fact that the other nine tracks, even the instrumental fragment of a title track, sound
like variations on its theme is more a matter of conceptual and musical unity than a lack of
ideas. This album definely deserves the hype it got on release.