Brokenpromiseland being a copy and paste of Coldplay, I never really got that and have heard it a lot. The synth parts in the intro are reminiscent of Clocks but past that it feels a world away from Coldplay. Could someone provide me with a Coldplay song it sounds like.

HAND is rife with "what was on the radio a year and a half prior. Title track takes the vocals of U2's Beautiful Day and puts it behind a slower American Idiot. The tracks recorded later, to me, the synth lines are very Killers-ish.

Had both been produced better I think i'd be way less critical of them now. There are songs I still adore on both though so..