![]() The Guardian gave it three stars out of five, and the NME another 9/10. ![]() X&Y arrived three years later, and marked a different musical direction for the band, aided by Brian Eno's production. Alexis Petridis awarded it four stars, calling it "one of the most beguiling sounds in rock: that of a band at the top of their game, sure-footed and oozing certainty." The heavier rock touches to the eight-minute Politik and the drums of A Whisper helped propel the band slightly away from their image as indie-lite bedwetters. While they're a deeply divisive band these days, their debut album Parachutes was extremely well-received the Guardian was impressed with the "elegant songs, classic guitars and gorgeous singing," while NME gave it a gushing 9/10.Ī Rush of Blood to the Head, released in 2002, was the album which catapulted Coldplay into the mainstream. ![]() As Harriet Gibsone explained in this piece, the Coldplay of 2000 were putting out critically acclaimed, albeit not groundbreaking, acoustic love songs and before that, limited edition EPs, such as Safety and The Blue Room. Ghost Stories, Coldplay's sixth album, has arrived a whole 14 years after the band's debut.
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