British band Coldplay has sold over 50 million records worldwide and won 7 Grammy Awards and 4 EMAs to date. Their latest album, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, is a record where groovesome programmed beats jostle with grand swells of church organ, where the space between verse and chorus is filled with stabs of North African-styled strings and tablas, and where breezy Flamenco handclaps drive a tale of gloom and despair. In their own words, they’ve declared it their “boldest and most confident record.”