Remember that excitement you used to get deep down inside your soul around the 20th of December back when you were 7 or 8 years old? When you actually could comprehend that Christmas was just days away and not just some magical, mysterious date and time to happen sometime a long, long time from now? I can remember being filled with the sensation that I just couldn't sit still or I may just go completely crazy. The energy and the excitement on Christmas Eve was so exciting it was nearly tangible. I can remember waking up hours before the pre-determined 8:00 start time to Christmas in the Wallace household with my brother so that we could go peek at the loot Santa had left under our tree. I'm not sure why we did this because it only made those last few hours go by even more slowly than the entire previous day. You'd think we enjoyed going back to the room and wrestling with some giant, black, shapeless beast called Patience. But, oh how we rejoiced when that 8:00 time showed up on our alarm clock. I bet if there were a video camera mounted outside our bedroom door it would record two boys bursting through the gate with the same fervor as the thoroughbreds blast from the green gates at Churchill Downs, minus the jockeys of course. We would run into mom and dad's room and wake them up, "It's Christmas, time to get up! Time to get up!" So parallels my feelings after listening to the new release of the Coldplay song, "Violet Hill," off their upcoming album Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends.
Go to Coldplay's website now to get this song for free (if you haven't done so already). I love the new song. Right of the bat, however, you'll notice that this song has a new sort of feel to it for a Coldplay song. Possibly the biggest difference you'll notice is that Chris Martin is singing in a low voice. I read that this was going to prevalent on this album and it honestly made me quite leery. Gone are the guitar driven riffs of their previous songs. Present, however, is a steady driving beat that draws you into stomping your feet as the drums, bass, and guitars power through the chorus. Still present though, as Carey put it, are all the essential Coldplay "parts" that we have all come to know and love.
So now the tough part, I must sit here and wait. Now comes that vaguely familiar feeling that I felt for years growing up. I'll let my excitement build to a tangible, nearly unbearable level, as I wait for the rest of the album to be released on June 17th. It will all culminate on the 16th when I'll burst through the doors of the local record store at midnight and shout, "It's Coldplay time! Time to get it out of the box!"
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