Violet Hill

It's still way too early for me to render an opinion about Coldplay's
new album. But what's easy to say is that the album's first single-
"Violet Hill", available for weeks prior to yesterday's official album
release- is a phenomenal single.

A song in that position plays a tough role: the first taste of the
"new" stuff, coming (in Coldplay's case) three years after the release
of a phenomenal album ("X&Y").

"Violet Hill" more than rises to the occasion.