Coldplay delivers a brilliant replenishment

And the album is recommended genuine.
While Viva la Vida or X & Y more concerned by gigantic, stadium-filling sound (but this is not bad), be replayed here calmer songs.
Because they can still: Coldplay has with the songs "Prospekt's March / Poppy Fields", "Now My Feet will not touch the Ground" and "Postcards from Far Away" which included what many fans in the album Viva la Vida missing had: Quiet piano or acoustic guitar songs with soulful voice of Chris Martin. Is it yet, which is why pearls as "Parachutes" or "A Rush of Blood to the Head" were so highly praised.

But there are also rockier numbers at: The harmonious "Life in Technicolor ii", the bombastic "Glass of Water" or "Rainy Day", a quirky mix of pop beats and strings as in "Viva la Vida".

Experiment Coldplay show also here: How are the magnificent song "Now My Feet will not touch the ground" to hear trumpets the end, the piece "Postcards from Far Away" is a song-less piano composition and in "Lost +" Coldplay had the Rapper Jay-Z brought on board.
The song "Prospekt's March / Poppy Fields" is a very soulful, touching to tears and beautiful ballad, the text meets in the Black and will really performed very nicely by Chris Martin. Highlight of the album.

Only "Lovers in Japan - Osaka Sun remix" disappointed that a modification to the original is more than minimal (at the bridge to the second stanza sings a chorus "Oooooh, oooooh").

Conclusion:
This is the more correct direction should take Coldplay.
Fewer bombastic stadium anthems, more sedate stuff. That it should not go all the way back to the roots is also demonstrated here with this EP.