Customer Reviews
boring - By: hermitcooper, 10 Jul 2008 
boring as ever. Try Nick Worrall's debut album for a real treat & to show what good modern songwriting sounds like.
Yawn..... - By: D. Best, 04 Jul 2008 Anyone who claims to be a Coldplay fan & likes this album, clearly hasn't listened to 'Parachutes' or 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' two good strong albums, littered with really good songs like 'Yellow', 'Shiver', 'The Scientist', 'In My Place' etc... , whereas 'X & Y' has no good songs, the only half decent thing i liked about this album was one of the videos where an old lady is doing some acrobatic tricks.
THE BEST !! - By: kerriann, 05 Jun 2008 
great album & very powerful , i love all of there music , i think they are simply great .. this cd/album is as powerful & rich as all the others they have made .. ive got there new one on pre-order .. ive had my coldplay cd/albums for a long long while now & ive only just reviewed them ..
thank u coldplay .
see u ..
AWESOME - By: Jim-Jim, 08 May 2008 Look, I won't waste your time with a big lengthy review - I'll ge to the point. BUY THIS! You will fallin love with every track though not necessarily straight away, most are "growers" & you may find that a year after you bought it a song you hatedin the beginning has really grown on you & you love it. Don't let the whiny naysayers put you off - this is AWESOME. It's allin the title, really:)
Don't, DON'T, buy this. Buy Puressence instead. You'll thank me later, you will :o) - By: Sera69, 30 Apr 2008 
If you're here you obviously think you have a taste for impassioned, emotive rock. Music with depth, feeling & quality. The kind of music that stays with you past the first listen, past even the 20th listen. The kind of music that becomes an indespensible part of your life.
Well, this is Puressence, not Coldplay.
Only Snow Patrol & Radiohead at their best come close to Puressence. And it's a crime of the greatest magnitude that this band's name doesn't trip off the tongue as readily as 'OK Computer', 'Run' or (God help us...) 'Coldplay' when those "best of..." lists come round.
Their fourth album, 'Don't Forget To Remember' eschews some of the open & melancholic soundtracks of their previous three & ups the ampage to produce a superb, almost wall-of-sound effect. It washes over you with James's voice a shining diamondin the barrage. It's a unique voice, to be sure, but utterly spellbinding.
Please, if you're even a little tempted, just take five minutes & look at the reviews & stars for Puressence's albums.
They are:
Puressence
Only Forever
Planet Helpless
Don't Forget To Remember
This is not advertising or sloganeering, Puressence have been the BEST bandin the country for almost ten years. Be warned though, if you buy one you will buy all four.
Additional,in reply to the comment posted below :o)
First of all, thank you for your comment. I like to receive feedback whether it's good or bad. And thank you also, for giving me the opportunity to expand on my overtly biased view!
Secondly, I think you are right, my post is not exactly a review of X&Y but most points of view on the album have already been covered & if it introduces even one person to a new band who plough a similar furrow to Coldplay then I feel it is worth it. As you say, if I wanted to promote Puressence I should do it on the Puressence page & you are welcome to read the reviews I have already posted there.
Why, if they are so good are Puressence not as big as Coldplay? Mass marketing, major-label backing, tabloid fame & a pro-active frontman vs local Manchester band on their own small Indie label who, even when signed to Island, were treated as little more than a tax break. It's hardly a fair comparison.
I am slightly saddened that you would use the excuse of something not being popular to mean it cannot be good.
Also, I did not rate X&Y as 1 star as many people have done, I gave it 2 stars. Mainly because `Fix you' is a genuine classic; I even have it on my MP3 player. Neither did I rate it through any underlying hatred of Coldplay; I also own Parachutes & Rush of Blood to the Head, nor because of Chris & Gwynneth & their politics or class as some reviewers have done. I'm sure you have taken as much exception to those reviews as you did to mine.
I rated it so low because I feel Coldplay on this album are so utterly generic. You can almost hear each song being constructed according to formula. It is musak designed to be playedin the background not music written to be listened to.
Coldplay are an inherently easy listen & that's not meant as a criticism simply my explanation of their style. I feel there is very little reward as a listener from Coldplay; they are the MacDonald's or elasticated-waist jeans of the music world. Puressence are a richer & perhapsin many ways a more complex experience but the rewards are greater for it & that's what I wanted to highlightin my review.
Finally, I can say (having been dragged along unwillingly) that Coldplay are a truly excellent live band that I would hand over my hard earned cash to see them again.
But Puressence are still much better!
