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PARACHUTES
Coldplay
(EMI)
Depending on which typically hyperbolic British music-paper you read, this Oxford mope-pop quartet are this year's Radiohead, this year's Travis, this year's Nick Drake, this year's Smiths or this year's Jeff Buckley. What they really are is this year's most unfairly overhyped young band. Truth is, Coldplay's romantically strummy guitar-pop and sweetly-sour falsetto lamentations of hope and sadness do remind us of most of the artists above. But while lush, cloudy tunes like Shiver indeed produce the occasional goosebump, Parachutes is nowhere near as transcendent or transfixing as any of those artists' finest work. It's a damn fine debut, but make no mistake -- after all that hype, it probably won't be long before Coldplay are last year's news back home.
Friday, September 15, 2000
Coldplay sing of hope and sadness
Winnipeg Sun