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A Rush of Blood to the Head is the second album by the band Coldplay, released by Parlophone in 2002. Critics consider it a more mature effort than Coldplay's first album, Parachutes.
The album's success was launched by the first single's "In My Place" radio popularity. This is the typical "first single", with its heroic guitar chords functioning as teasers for the rest of the album.
A Rush of Blood to the Head includes typical pop songs (In my Place), love ballads (Clocks, The Scientist), acoustic songs (Green Eyes) and other more intimate songs, where Coldplay keep up with their initial album Parachutes' tendency to depressive moods.
As of January2005, the album has sold 2.3 million copies (7x platinum) in the United Kingdom and 9.1 million copies worldwide.
The album was named after a series of paintings made by survivors of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The album, including a collaboration with Luciano Pavarotti, "Miss Sarajevo", was largely unnoticed in the industry, and received little attention from the critics and public alike after the band lost the battle with the record company to release it with the U2 name.
The album was released on November 22 worldwide and November 23 in the United States.
However, the key to 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' is to be found not in Martin's presence, but in the intensity, dynamism, verve and style that Coldplay have now nailed, when comparisons to Radiohead, Echo and The Bunnymen and, perhaps most pertinently, U2's 'Unforgettable Fire', manifest themselves in a series of killer strides.
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