'Indisputably Magnificent?' To set the scene; you've just sold an incredibly unexpected eight million copies of your immense and indisputably magnificent debut album, 'Parachutes' which is now able to take its well earned place amongst the most popular records of 2000. The melody of 'Yellow' seems forever laced into every hum in Britain, You're rapidly being hailed as musical geniuses and rightly so, to voice my avidly fanatical Colplay bias and the phone is red-hot practically spontaneously combusting with countless invites to Showbiz gatherings, Life is good. Then through the media induced frenzy that encompasses you and...
wont find space in their CD racks for a piece of work so brilliant as 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head?. True it lacks some of those head-turning, What the hell was that?, moments attained by, say, The Flaming Lips, also those who enjoy burrowing for hidden depths will find little to satisfy heres, due to the sincere style of Chris Martin. But for everyone else this must be the apotheosis of Post-Radiohead guitar-rock, a collection of vastly moving songs, that will render even the biggest stadium venues as intimate as bedrooms. U2 Radiohead...Colplay? It would seem so.