A Rush Of Blood To The Head
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90It recalls U2's The Joshua Tree, and not just for its stunning guitar work but for its wild passion and spiraling tension-and-release dynamics.
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It's an album of outstanding natural beauty, an organic, wholesome work.
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100Fierce and noble and fragile and genuinely moving, 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' is a lovely furnace of searing goodness made by some wonderful contradictory bastards.
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90The key to 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' is to be found not in Martin's presence, but in the intensity, dynamism, verve and style that Coldplay have now nailed, when comparisons to Radiohead, Echo and The Bunnymen and, perhaps most pertinently, U2's 'Unforgettable Fire', manifest themselves in a series of killer strides.
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Displaying a cohesion rarely heard in albums these days, ''A Rush of Blood'' bobs from one majestic little high to another.
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100There's nothing quite like the sound of a band at the top of its game.
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90A stronger, more distinctive album than its predecessor in nearly every respect.
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90Parachutes was impressive, but Coldplay's new album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, is stunning, the amount of growth from Album One to Album Two equally so.
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90A very tastefully crafted, tuneful, and affecting piece of work with a band that is still just beginning to tap its enormous potential.
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100May well come to be regarded as the best British rock album since OK Computer. [Sep 2002, p.118]