So while doing my Christmas shopping, I picked up Coldplay's new A Rush of Blood to the Head, and it's good, but it's not the incredible art that people seem to be making it out to be. It's a nice example of fairly nice, slightly-more-intelligent-than-most pop puff music, but that's about it. It's no Hard Candy or The Future That Was, in other words. There are better places to spend your allowance, kids.