![]() ![]() So they enlisted Brian Eno, a producer whose legendary reputation partially rested in his ability to help an artist forge new textural and aesthetic backdrops for their work. X&Y was still wildly successful, but even the band appeared to recognize that its bloated sheen had taken the original Coldplay template to its logical end point and, perhaps, a point of diminishing returns. Coldplay, so it went, were the poster-boys for a strain of lame, bloodless modern rock. There were still good moments - “Speed Of Sound” was an endearing (and enduring) re-write of “Clocks” the Kraftwerk-sampling “Talk” was addicting - but material like the album’s huge hit “Fix You” gave their critics the exact ammunition they’d been looking for. ![]() The subtle hints of something weirder that lingered at the edges of Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood To The Head, the element that allowed Coldplay to straddle the worlds of murky post-Britpop atmospheric rock and more straight-up mainstream pop, were mostly brushed away for their polished and often sappy third effort. In many ways, it was one of those collections where a band starts to sound exactly like everyone’s most basic idea of them. In 2005, Coldplay released their third album, X&Y.
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