Coldplay's success "X&Y"

Coldplay put a lot of work and trust in the new album "X&Y", created and discarded in a suite of musical notes, set for release Tuesday and expected to become one of the 2005's top-selling records.

The instrumentation is still basic piano-pop, but the band plays up Guy Berryman's bass guitar more here, creating some unexpected post-punk effects and helping the band shake some of the unwarranted U2 comparisons, writes DenverPost

Chris Martin, the lead singer of the band, declared he's a perfectionist of the most obsessive sort. And that might be the reason that with each of the band's albums, "we've set off very gung-ho thinking we're going to finish in two weeks, and in six months start all over again."

"I think it would be weird if we didn't have an attention to detail," he says. "Everything in our lives is about the band, and our albums mean a lot to us. It would be terrible not to be like that."