Rolling Stone (12/26/02, p.103) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002" Rolling Stone (9/19/02, pp.97-8) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A nervier, edgier, thoroughly surprising album....the band has figured out how to let loose and rock out...[it's] first-rate guitar rock with some real emotional protein on its bones." Spin (1/03, p.72) - Ranked #26 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" - "...Harder and darker than 2000's sweetly naive PARACHUTES....gorgeous arena pop." Q (12/02, p.65) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 2002" Q (9/02, pp.198-9) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This is pretty much the apotheosis of post-Radiohead guitar-rock, a collection of vastly moving songs that will render stadiums as intimate as bedrooms..." Uncut (1/03, p.97) - Ranked #67 in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year" Uncut (9/02, p.116) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...the best British rock album since OK COMPUTER...acomplished, original and majestic..." CMJ (9/2/02) - p.6) - "...There is a cavernous beauty to this album's melodic depression that can't be denied..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.54) - Ranked #100 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[T]his surely ranks as the most intimate arena rock yet wrought." Mojo (Publisher) (1/03, p.76) - Ranked #31 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002" Mojo (Publisher) (9/02, p.94) - "...fragile love songs with a hint of the metaphysic...Coldplay still sound like they care about what they're doing." NME (Magazine) (8/22/02, p.42) - 9 out of 10 - "...An album of outstanding beauty, an organic, wholesome work..."