Rekord Hotel Barcelona is a hotel for a family getaway to Barcelona. Like most cities, it’s not easy to find a hotel with a family room but the Rekord offered 2 choices, a family room or an apartment a few doors away. Hotel combines comfort and efficiency with charm and friendliness. All the staff, whether at reception or serving at breakfast, were extremely welcoming and helpful at all times. The room was huge and very well appointed – great bed, big modern bathroom, everything immaculately clean, including new white bathrobes and slippers laid out on the beds. Parking is a bit of a problem in Barcelona but the Rekord has an underground car park at extra cost. You can also use the lounge area during the day and help yourself to tea, coffee and cakes up to 9 at night. On our first night, staff brought a plate of fresh sliced tropical fruit to the room. Barcelona is not a cheap place to stay and I think the Rekord was about average in terms of cost so quite good value considering. I found Hotel Rekord Barcelona reviews for this hotel on this website and that is why I can recommend following Barcelona hotels for a stay in Barcelona

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As a fan from Coldplay’s very early days (I still have “Parachutes” as one of my favorite albums of the last decade, and I saw the band’s second ever US gig, in February 2001 in Portland, OR), I have to admit that I was somewhat apprehensive about the new album, which has been widely touted as Coldplay’s ‘experimental’ album.

Coldplay moves away from their usual radio-friendly soaring anthems, but still score big with their fourth studio album, which is filled with rich instrumental passages, as in the very first track “Life in Technicolor“.

The second track “Cemeteries of London” reminds me of soundtrack music from those old spaghetti westerns, but with deep and introspective lyrics.
Third track “Lost” is a plaintive song, minus a clearly defined chorus, but not missing it for a moment.

This is the point where the album really takes off. Chris Martin’s vocals stand out from the muted but beautiful background melody of “42“, and then it kicks up a notch by the end. The next two tracks  approximately 7 minutes of classic Coldplay. “Lovers in Japan” flows into the introspective “Reign of Love”, and then “Yes“.
This brings us to the best (and most radio friendly) track on the album. The title track “Viva La Vida” comes closest to mainstream, and is an instant favorite on the first listen. Hot on its heels comes the other single “Violet Hill” which features a guitar solo in the middle before Martin comes back in to ask, among other things, “If you love me, Won’t you let me know? “

The short ten-track album closes with “Strawberry Swing” and the melancholy “Death and All His Friends“.

In all, this album makes clear that this is not the Coldplay of yesteryear. Even “X&Y” sounds dated by this. There isn’t a single “catchy” song as such on here. “Speed of Sound” from “X&Y”, the last link to the earlier Coldplay instantly recognizable sound, sounds far, far away now. No falsetto singing from Chris Martin is to be found here.

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