Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (clear EcoRecord vinyl) [PARLOPHONE]

Why you'll love it

Viva la Vida topped the charts in the US and the UK, its title track became Coldplay's first US No. 1 single, and it won the Grammy for Best Rock Album. This edition is pressed on clear EcoRecord vinyl, made from recycled plastic.

This edition

• Clear EcoRecord vinyl, made from recycled plastic
• Single LP, 10 tracks
• Parlophone pressing
• Produced by Brian Eno and Markus Dravs

About the album

After three huge albums, Coldplay wanted to shake things up, so they called in Brian Eno. Working with him and Markus Dravs, they swapped some of their piano-ballad comfort for strings, timpani, Spanish-tinged guitars and more adventurous song structures, with a cover painting borrowed from Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.

"Viva la Vida" with its marching strings and bells became a global anthem and won the Grammy for Song of the Year, "Violet Hill" has a fuzzy, almost bluesy guitar riff, "Lovers in Japan" and "Strawberry Swing" are bright and dreamy, and "Lost!" stomps along on a church-organ groove. A career high for the band.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Parlophone, a reissue of the 2008 album.