the case against coldplay

Man, this NYT writer really hates Coldplay. Maybe they teased him as a kid or something.

"[Lead singer Chris Martin] places his melodies near the top of his range to sound more fragile, so the tunes straddle the break between his radiant tenor voice and his falsetto. As he hops between them - in what may be Coldplay's most annoying tic - he makes a sound somewhere between a yodel and a hiccup. And the lyrics can make me wish I didn't understand English."

Link to full article; via Waxy.