Over the first five years of the new millennium, Coldplay went from nobodies to one of the world’s biggest rock bands. Naturally, they were expected to continue cranking out radio-friendly hits with their fourth album – but instead, they sought to separate themselves from their opening trio of released by enlisting the leftfield production talents of Brian Eno.
From their flirtations with Afropop and tribal rhythms plus immersive electronic ambience and patient song structures, Eno’s sonic fingerprints are all over 2008’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends.
