Coldplay, Parachutes
ColdplayPARACHUTES.
Coldplay's debut is a compact ten-song album whose quiet scale looks almost strange in hindsight, considering how enormous the band became almost immediately afterward.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Image source: Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz.
SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.
Recording stories, credits, physical details and numbers worth keeping with the record.
Parachutes was released on July 10, 2000 and contains 10 tracks.
The official sequence opens with "Don't Panic" and closes with "Everything's Not Lost."
"Yellow" appears as track five, directly between "Sparks" and "Trouble."
The album's associated singles include "Shiver," "Yellow," "Trouble" and "Don't Panic."
Parachutes won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
It also won the BRIT Award for British Album of the Year.
The album was shortlisted for the 2000 Mercury Prize.
WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.
Parachutes established Coldplay's emotional vocabulary before the arrangements became stadium-sized. The songs are spare enough that the melodies, guitar textures and Chris Martin's voice carry almost all of the weight.
THE
NUMBERS.
TRACKS
The debut album contains ten songs.
RELEASE
Parachutes arrived on July 10, 2000.
MAJOR ALBUM AWARDS
The record won both a Grammy and a BRIT Award in album categories.
THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.
The glowing globe cover is simple enough to become an icon. It gives the album a handmade, slightly mysterious quality that matches the modest scale of the early recordings.
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DIGGING.
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