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December 25th 2008 15:19
Length: 26:04
Label: Parlophone
Released a bit over a month ago, Prospekt's March by Coldplay is an EP containing several tracks left off of their album Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends which was released in June. An eight-track CD, it's also included in the Deluxe Edition of Viva La Vida.
Prospekt's March begins with Life In Technicolor II, a full four-minute song that uses the same melody as "Life In Technicolor," the instrumental introduction to Viva La Vida. It's a nice song and could have very well followed Viva La Vida's intro seamlessly to become the album's second track.
Postcards From Far Away is a beautiful piece of piano that's less than one minute. It breaks the high-tempo from the previous track.
Glass Of Water is what Coldplay would have sounded like if they had stayed on the same course after X&Y. There's a nice guitar, keyboard in the chorus, and Chris Martin's signature voice. A line like “He heard you could see your future inside a glass of water with ripples and the rhymes” is something you'd be hard-pressed to find on a Nickelback CD.
Rainy Day starts with a nice piano then turns into a guitar-driven song. It reminded of one of the tracks on the Italian Job Soundtrack. It also use the strings of “Viva La Vida” (the song) towards the end.
Like Glass Of Water, Prospekt's March/Poppyfields is classic Coldplay. It's a guitar-driven ballad similar to “A Message” and “A Rush Of Blood To The Head.”
Lost is a remix of their similarly titled track (minus the ) and features Jay-Z. The song doesn't change much. Jay-Z raps over the solo part while the rest of the song is basically the same as the original. It feels like it's been dubbed over and is not impressive at all. Still, Jay-Z's lyrics fit the song's theme so I guess that's a plus.
Lovers In Japan (Osaka Sun Mix) follows Lost . I couldn't really tell the difference between this version and the original except for the fact that the original also contains "Reign Of Love" in the same track. All I know is that the video actually uses this version, so enjoy below...
The CD concludes with Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground, a beautiful acoustic guitar-driven song. Its calmness reminded me of the bonus tracks on X&Y titled "'Til Kingdom Come." As a matter of fact, after listening to "'Til Kingdom Come," I realize that Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground sounds a lot like it only instead of being accompanied by a keyboard, the guitar on this track is accompanied by horns. To my mind, it's the best song of the EP.
Now, this record is only an EP and, as such, it shouldn't be evaluated like a full-scale album. Still, I would feel a bit disappointed if I had to buy that one separately from Viva La Vida. Except for three original tracks (Glass Of Water, Prospekt's March/Poppyfields, Now My Feet Won't Touch The Ground), most of these songs are reworked and/or cut material that could easily have been issued as B-Sides for the singles. As for the three songs I mentioned, there's no reason why they couldn't have been heard as bonus tracks on Viva La Vida the regular edition. After all, Coldplay have been through the bonus track path before, they could have done it again. With that in mind, I give Prospekt's March a 4 out of 5 – good, even great songs, but could have a bit more new material.
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