Pots that call kettles black
Look, I'm gonna cop some flak over this, but some critical reviews I've read of late have left quite the bitter taste in my mouth.
And one of my preffered news sources is the main culprit. The Guardian, normally a sensible bastion of left wing opinion, has fallen short of the mark.
Coldplay, as everyone is surely aware by now, have a new album out next week. X & Y, make no mistake, will be this year's behemoth- Morning Glory for the twenty-first century, maybe bigger. Majority opinion is that the album has the goods, and will take the band to an even higher plane, cementing their position in the top two or three bands in the world.
So why, oh why, Didn't Alexis Petridis like it? Well kids, Lex wasn't keen on the disc because it wasn't what Petridis wanted it to be. Our esteemed journalist had been promised weird electronica, and Kraftwerkisms. What we got was a great international band filtering their more obtuse influences into stadium rock.
So that's it. If they had remade Kid A, Petridis would have been satisfied. But because they're not making records for one journo in England, they get a duff review ('Bland Faith'???). Because they haven't COMPLETELY changed direction, they are criticised. Sorry, but that's piss poor. I won't say anymore on the subject until I hear the album for myself next week, but I'm hoping to give a fairly balanced critique, not just complain that they haven't made twelve versions of 'daylight', my favourite Coldplay track thus far.
posted by Mark @ Sunday, May 29, 2005
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