Sold Date: February 27, 2015
Start Date: February 1, 2015
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Coldplay ~ X&Y  2005 original 1st pressing. Made in the U.K. EMI Records - 4747861 Double Vinyl / 2 LP set Vinyl are Mint- to Mint. Outer-cover with sticker is VG++ with cover-wear small corner-bends; minor crease and faint wear. Gatefold cover is VG++ to Mint- with minor cover-wear and minor small corner-bends and faint wear. Large custom poster is VG++ to Mint- with some small and minor faint creases and bends ~ it has never been fully opened. Includes custom inner-sleeves. Out of print original.

"After  stubbornly refused to accept the mantle of world's biggest and most important rock band by releasing the willfully strange rocktronica fusion  in 2000,  stepped up to the plate with their debut, . Tasteful, earnest, introspective, anthemic, and grounded in guitars, the British quartet was everything  weren't but what the public wanted them to be, and benefited from the Oxford quintet's decision to abandon rock stardom for arcane art rock. became a transatlantic hit and 2002's sequel, , consolidated their success by being bigger and better than , positioning  to not be just the new , but the new : a band that belongs to the world but whose fans believe that the music is for them alone. To that end, 's third album,  -- slightly delayed so it follows  by nearly three years, but that's no longer than the time separating  and , or  and  -- is designed to be the record that elevates  to the major leagues, where they are at once the biggest and most important band in the world. It's deliberate and sleek, cinematic and pristine, hip enough to sample  and blend in fashionable retro-'80s post-punk allusions without altering the band's core. Indeed,  is hardly a bold step forward but rather a consolidation of 's strengths, particularly their skill at crafting surging, widescreen epics. But if  highlights their attributes it also brings 's weaknesses into sharp relief. Forget the fact that they, by any stretch of the imagination, do not rock -- rocking is simply against their nature. They are a meditative band, reflecting on their emotions instead of letting them go in a cathartic blast of noise and rhythm. This isn't a problem -- after all, there have been plenty of great bands that do not rock & roll -- but their terminal politeness does cripple their music, preventing it from being as majestic as its aspirations.  is well scrubbed and well behaved, possessing a textbook education in classic rock and the good sense to never stretch any farther than needed. They are the perfect middlebrow rock band -- clean, pristine, and rational, seemingly smart since they never succumb to pounding, primal riffs, but also not weird enough to be genuine art rock. It's ambitious, yet its ambitions are modest, not risky, so their ambitions can be fulfilled without breaking a sweat. And since their sweeping yet subdued theatricality does recall the more majestic moments of  and , they have won millions of fans, but another crucial reason that  have a broad appeal is that lead singer/songwriter  never tackles any large issues, preferring to endlessly examine his feelings. Like on and , all the songs on  are ruminations on 's doubts, fears, hopes, and loves. His words are earnest and vague, so listeners can identify with the underlying themes in the songs, and his plain, everyman voice, sighing as sweet as a schoolboy, is unthreatening and unassuming, so it's all the easier for listeners to project their own emotions into the song. But for as impeccable as  is -- and, make no mistake, it's a good record, crisp, professional, and assured, a sonically satisfying sequel to -- it does reveal that 's solipsism is a dead-end, diminishing the stature of the band. Where  is big in sound, scope, ambition, and intent,  is ultimately big music about small things, and even if  is a strong, accomplished album, its limited, narcissistic point of view is what prevents the quartet from inheriting the title of the biggest and most important band in the world." -allmusic
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