Let's stop just short of calling these guys the thinking man's
Coldplay, because no matter how you slice it, that's still going
to be an oxymoron. Still, if you're in the mood for whiny piano-
driven British rock, you could do worse than 2004's greatest and
whitest hope, who are still delivering respectable records
nearly a decade after the initial impact of "Somewhere Only We
Know." Those towering anthemic pretensions do sometimes work out
well, but even when they don't, they never fully... More >>>