"A Rush of Blood to the Head" - the album, with the British band Coldplay celebrated her breakthrough. Rightly so, because the board has a lot, hardly lows and, as regards the eleven songs always varied. But now once for a detailed description: Coldplay can show intelligent lyrics, are masters of beautiful melodies and create above all the tightrope walk between slow, gentle songs and somewhat rockier version. A feature particularly worthy of already published track "In My Place", then the following single "The Scientist" and "Clocks" and "Amsterdam". These pieces are undoubtedly one of the stronger songs on the record, but I could just as well now even enumerate some more numbers ...! Because on "A Rush of Blood to the Head" songwriting talent Coldplay seems inexhaustible and also to be the band to experiment when it comes to getting new tunes, as well as the background music. Here, too, a direct hit! Either rocking electric guitar sounds, acoustic guitar sounds or soft at times accompanied only by the piano. Or all three elements in a good combination! The good end: "A Rush of Blood to the Head" is definitely the attentive listener - and also adopted not so quickly from the memory ...