Violet Hill - Coldplay

Finally there is new music from Coldplay. In one day, we not only got a FREE download of the new single, Violet Hill, but also learned of free concerts at Madison Square Garden, NYC and Brixton, UK. In previous weeks we learned of the title of the new album, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, along with the tracklist for the album.

The song begins with Chris Martin and the piano, but the middle is a new sound of Coldplay, one promised for us in the new album. The electric, overdriven guitar joins in around a minute in, adding part of that new sound. The almost choir-like chorus of If you love me/ let me know is also new in the sound, along with an electric guitar solo that is unlike the old Coldplay. The track, to me, is a 3.5/5 mainly for the fact that it is uneventful. Unlike Clocks and Speed of Sound, the two first singles off A Rush of Blood to the Head and X&Y, respectively, the song is more mellow and not as moving. Hopefully this is not a good representation of what to look forward to on upcoming June 17th release date album, mainly because the three year wait would not have been worth it.