Viva La Vida or Death and All His FriendsColdplay · 2008

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8.1

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#2,095

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16.0Life in Technicolor 2Cemeteries of London 3Lost!442 59.9Lovers in Japan / Reign of Love 6Yes 77.4Viva La Vida 8Violet Hill 9Strawberry Swing 10Death and All His Friends

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rollingstone

7.0

“Coldplay's fourth release has been billed as their experimental record, as well as their political record. And it is both, relatively speaking. Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends opens with an anthemic riff played not on guitar but on a Persian santur — a hammered dulcimer common to the traditional music of […]”

pitchfork

6.9

“In a case of well-honed troubleshooting after the startlingly bland X&Y, Coldplay's fourth LP is a diluted version of U2's Achtung Baby or Radiohead's Kid A, the "experimental" mid-career maneuvers of their peers. Brian Eno produces.”