Coldplay has always been an extremely favorite band of mine. In my opinion they are eventghe 21st centuries version of the beatles. Parachutes was amzing, as was a rush of blood to the head, but there is nothing amazing about X and Y. I see people giving this album five stars and part of me is thinking that they are giving 5 stars because it is coldplay (imagine giving a beatles album less than 5 stars). The point is the music is stale at most times. There are some good songs, but they all sound the same. The addition of the awful synthesizer is very annoying with that outer space, borderline techo feel. While the album has god songs as said, they are not anywhere near "yellow" "shiver" or "The scientist". There is no hit songs, only a combination of mediocre and above average. I would definitely recommend their other albums in place of this.