U-PLAY

"Viva La Vida" because death will strike you down one day and all this will be gone.

In my favorite track "42" of the latest Coldplay release Chris Martin sings "Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living my head".

INDEED.

In mine as well Chris.

But we are not crazy are we? We might be ghosts. Or at least maybe we just think we are.

42, the answer to the greatest riddle of the universe is a "rite of passage" track. It melds the Coldplay we know and love with the new "Brian Enoized" Coldplay which sounds similar to Bono and the boys from Ireland. I call the new band U-PLAY.

"Life in Technicolour" opens with a unforgettable whirl of sound that is reminiscent of a fire once stoked in an abandoned castle.

"Lovers in Japan - Reign of Love" could easily be a track on "Joshua Tree" but it would have a more earth-conscious title like "Revelation in the city of fossil fuels".

The album concludes with the reassurance that we will die at some point but that Death is our buddy. Followed by that familiar whirl from the beginning to complete the U-Play journey.

Kind of hokie, kind of cliche'

I LOVE IT!

A MODERN MASTERPIECE!

I WANT MORE!