99年4月,乐队出版了EP《Brothers & Sisters》。随后,SimonWilliams,伦敦“Fierce Panda”唱片的主管(98年11月在CamdenFalcon.看了COLDPLAY的现场演出)约他们为他的公司录制一首歌。事后,乐队正式签约到EMI旗下品牌Parlophone。同时,著名的电台DJ Steve Lamacq 开始在电台---“夜间1频道”播放他们《Brothers &Sisters》里面的歌,EP在排行榜上爬到了92名。而切在这一年,英国最权威的音乐媒体“NME”开始注意COLDPLAY乐队,“NME”称乐队是有着清澈的眼睛,诚实的脸庞的,等待一鸣惊人的年轻乐团。
"Brothers & Sisters" is a song by Coldplay, released as their first single in 1999 following the release of the bands first EP Safety, released a year earlier. It was later re-released as an EP.
After forming in 1998, Coldplay met up with local record label Fierce Panda Records after a representative from said label saw them perform at the Camden Falcon in December of that year. Fierce Panda offered to release their debut single, and the band agreed, signing a short record deal. 1,500 copies of the vinyl single were issued in a special wraparound picture sleeve. It peaked at #107 on the UK Singles Chart.
According to the singles liner notes, recording completed in only four days and cost the band a lowly sum of £400.
The atmospheric sounds on "Easy to Please" were created by setting up microphones on a wet road outside the studio.
A new version of "Brothers & Sisters" later appeared on the "Trouble" single.
The single was re-released as an EP in late 2002 on Brash Records.