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...there are currently no British artists in the U.S. Billboard Top 50 singles chart. The Top 100 album chart features a more respectable four British acts - but the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Rod Stewart are not exactly fresh faces. Of the four, only the members of melodic rockers Coldplay are not pushing pension age. Will some of the new seedlings of Brit music grow into the next big thing in the U.S.? They're certainly compelling enough to have a shot. The bright-eyed, lush-voiced woman known as Ms. Dynamite led the urban charge in 2002. The eldest...
...bands have taken as much abuse for what they are not as Coldplay. The British foursome sold 5 million copies of its very good first album, 2000's Parachutes, but was slagged on both sides of the Atlantic because its abstract, lovelorn pop was neither abstract enough to be Radiohead nor pop enough to be Oasis. This middle existence between the brains and the brawn of British rock led Alan McGee, the manager who discovered Oasis, to dismiss Coldplay as "music for bed wetters...
...Coldplay's second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, finds the band plowing ahead with the bed-wetter thing and improving. Lead singer Chris Martin has a lovely high voice, and he has all the solipsistic tendencies of a latter-day Morrissey. He writes about breakups and sadness and fear of death, but unlike so many other weary chroniclers, he is a romantic not a cynic. When he sings "Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part" over the brooding keys of The Scientist or "The truth is I miss...
...advance on Rush is that Martin's voice is tethered to some terrific music. Parachutes was full of floating guitars and twinkling pianos that laid the framework for a Coldplay sound--a sound that got a little boring over the course of an album. Rush still hovers more than it grinds, but the group is now unafraid of the occasional tempo shift, and on some songs drummer Will Champion even trades in his brushes for real live drumsticks! The result, on standout tracks Politik and Clocks, is a low-adrenaline kick from the music and high romance from Martin...
...Coldplay is expected to release a follow-up to Parachutes that, Martin says has been partly inspired by the events of September 11. If this album comes close to matching the depth and subtlety of it predecessor, it will be not only a tribute to events past, but a catalyst, to establish Coldplay’s ongoing presence in international music...