Personnel: Chris Martin, vocals piano, Jon Buckland, guitar, Will Champion, drums, and Guy Berryman, bass.

Coldplay recently won a Grammy award for Parachutes for Best Alternative Album. The only thing wrong with that is that Parachutes deserved to be nominated for Best Album. All of the quartet attended the University College of London. All four had been playing instruments since their early teens and been influenced by likes of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Eric Clapton. With only their full-debut album and a few EPs they have already joined the ranks of England's elite including Oasis, Verve, and Radiohead. They are drawing comparisons with Scotland's Travis and the late Jeff Buckley, who I recently have also taken an interest to. This album also earned the band a Mercury Music Prize nomination and won

Parachutes is a perfect balance of sadness and elation, which they are able to switch back and forth in a heartbeat. The album begins with its shortest track (2:17) Don't Panic, which starts with a sort of British folk-rock sound and evolves into a kind of spacey electric guitar piece with piano perfectly added in. Buckland's Pink Floyd resembling guitar sound blends perfectly with Martin's passionate and emotional voice. That along with the simplistic lyrics gives the perfect preview and insight to what this album is really like.

Most of the songs if not all are about love, unrequited love to love lost. The album as a whole is very relaxing but has very upbeat moments. Buckland's guitar style is absolutely mesmerizing, especially along side Martin's infectious voice that you can't help but sing along with. When Buckland is not playing spaced out electric guitar melodies he is playing simplistic acoustic melodies. Their are also some sound effects added in the studio that are similar to those on Radiohead's OK Computer, but the album is more similar to The Bends. Unlike Radiohead, Coldplay finds a way to maintain a kind of optimistic and positive feeling found

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