This viral video of Coldplay's "Violet Hill" is both seriously eerie and seriously cool. There's something about seeing a couple of dead people dancing about that makes it so god damn unnerving.
Anyway, Coldplay's latest studio release, 'Viva La Vida (Death And All His Friends)' was released a couple of days ago. I only got my copy today. But I must say I'm loving this album even more than I did for 'X&Y'. I think it has to do with the whole morbidity of the album: its so dark. I feel like its a tribute to death and destruction or something, which is ironic because the title of the album is Spanish for 'Live the Life'.
As a whole, 'Viva La Vida' has a feel that's quite different from the other 3 previous releases, not that Coldplay's music had ever steered clear from being melancholic or emotional, but I dunno, the songs on this album are especially morose. Not that I mind the whole depressed-antiwar theme, god knows that I could deal with hell lots of morbidity right now.
Songs that I'm currently digging include 'Life in Technicolor', which is a purely instrumental piece that totally rocks and really soars. 'Cemeteries Of London', 'Viva La Vida', 'Violet Hill' and 'Death And All His Friends' are other songs that I really like as well.
Its amazing that despite listening to a fair amount of material from different artistes and accumulating, what I must proudly identify to be a rather diverse and eclectic taste and sensitivity to music, there's just something about Coldplay's music that still sends shivers down my spine. I don't know if its the tendency of the music to generate a sensational haunting vibe, or Chris Martin's out of this world falsetto, or the way their chords seem to clash in a complicated, layered symphony. Its a mix of being unabashedly vulnerable and confusingly complex, and its a mix that always works for me.
It has so far been a totally musical week for me. I think I overdid it on the buying of albums but I have approximately 6 new albums to go through. I dunno, but there has been a sudden influx of great albums recently and this has increased my urge to devour music. Its like a life force you know, without which, I would just wither away and melt into a pool of highly saturated fats and carbohydrates. (No protein because I have absolutely zero muscle content.)
Name: voldemort33
XY, 01/06/1987, s'porean typical geminian free-thinker moody & eccentric thinks far too much for his own good med student (be afraid. be very afraid!) demon45_6f@hotmail.com
crazy craves
music (jazz, rock and lounge) day-dreaming drawing & photography animals (sheep!) chocolate and tea! seafood, noodles and soup!
pet peeves
noisy crowds over-possessive, insecure, whiny people two-faced hypocrites housework and homework being called 'rich' rushing to do stuff crying, pesky kids
deepest darkest desires! (aka wishlist!)
to be a doctor (with a heart of gold!) a dog my own condo apartment a driving license and my own four wheel drive my own comic line someone to hug
