Coldplay Announce New Album

Was their last album any good? I kinda gave up after A Head Full of Dreams.

Anyways, A Rush Of Blood To The Head is my all time fave by them.

 

You could have told be they hadn't released anything since that album and I would have believed you. It's weird how they completely fell off my radar.

 

Parachutes, Rush and X&Y are true perfection for me.

Viva is fairly solid too but they haven’t done an album since that’s hit as hard as the first three.

 

I'm not a fan of them anymore but their sustainability efforts are incredibly impressive.

 

Good band. They are great live. I appreciate their dedication to making good music and being sustainable.

I like the post Viva stuff but I am not judging it very harshly, they aren't the same band they once were but for a pop rock/radio friendly band, they are pretty good in my opinion.

 

Naming the album "Moon Music" is a red flag for me. Get out of the cosmos and come back down to the Earth where you made those first 3 albums.

 

The title kind of gives me the same vibes as Ghost Stories, which is such a great album. Looking forward to hearing it.

 

Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head are damn-near perfect, IMO.

X&Y lost me and is often skipped when cycling through their discography. It's a controversial opinion, I've gathered, and I felt it was...scattered. Inconsistent. Somehow missing something. It apparently had a troubled production, resulting in switching up producers and tossing out a number of songs. I personally would love to listen to that material, as they'd been working with Ken Nelson (producer for Parachutes and Rush) before going a different direction.

Viva la Vida, in spite of stylistic changes to the band's music, felt so much more complete and focused. I loved the listening experience with Jon Hopkins' "Light Through the Veins" opening and closing the album, as well as everything in-between. I'm also a sucker for Brian Eno and loved his involvement with this album.

Mylo Xyloto, similar to X&Y, just didn't do anything for me.

Ghost Stories was the last album I really listened to in its entirety. I enjoyed "Midnight" and was looking forward to more of an ambient-electronic album/seeing a different side of the band.

 

Everything after X&Y sucks

 

I have to say the albums after Viva La Vida feel kinda sucky as a whole, but there are still some gems sprinkled in there like Ink and A Sky Full of Stars.

 

Ghost Stories is such an underrated record, and Mylo Xyloto really holds up, despite having a couple duds in the track listing.

Honestly, the one no one really talks about is Everyday Life. Being a "double" album, it's a bit cumbersome, but there's some tracks on there that feel closer to Parachutes and Rush of Blood than anything else they've done. It's worth spending time on, for sure. Plus, "Champion of the World" has a co-write from Scott Hutchison.

The whole "Music of the Spheres" thing really truly lost me though, and I'm worried moving to the Moon is just going to be a continuation of that. Blah.

 

I need to revisit Ghost Stories. And I didn’t spend much time with Everyday Life but what you wrote intrigues me. Think I’ll do a deep dive into their discography.

 

Like most bands that have a pretty large discography, there's definitely clunkers, don't get me wrong. (I try and forget "A Head full of Dreams" exists, to be honest)

"Ghost Stories" is great for a very particular mood, so depending on your state of mind, it might not vibe haha. You'll see what I mean.

 

Also - the Viva La Vida hate is unwarranted. The singles are meh, but songs like “strawberry swing,” “42,” and “Death and All His Friends” are absolute bangers.

 

That album came out at a very specific, difficult time in my life and so I hardly ever go back to it for that reason, but I do remember those three songs in particular being friggin awesome.