There are several posts all over the blogosphere about this so I thought I would throw my two cents in...
So COLDPLAY has joined the "give away our first single free so people will pay attention to us" card with their first off the new record entitled "Violet Hill". Musically, Brian Eno's fingerprints are all over the song taking the ethereal synths at the start from "Where the Streets Have No Name" and mixing it with some later day PINK FLOYD sounds to create a Coldplay song with some surprising bite. Chris Martin still lays the imagery on a bit thick in some places but overall the song serves the purpose of being just original enough to make me anticipate the new record but not straying so far as to alienate fans of their older work. Most of the reviews of the song I have read seem ambivalent to it but I have to admit that it is certainly growing on me. But, in the interest of full disclosure, I have enjoyed all of their work to date. So I am certainly excited about what lies ahead. Since the song is already free here it is...
(mp3) Coldplay -- Violet Hill
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