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Posted by: WhoOdyssey 14th October 2019, 12:49 PM

Coldplay are reportedly releasing an "experimental" new album next month! Followed by a more mainstream release in 2020.

Hyped for this if true! (Either way I expect there to be some new music by the end of next year)

Posted by: MɅ††ᏆɅS 14th October 2019, 12:51 PM

Ooh I like the sound of that 'experimental' tbh, might rekindle my interest in them if we're lucky

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 14th October 2019, 01:00 PM

Wasn't that project they re-named themselves for the purpose of being 'experimental'?

Posted by: gavindeejay 14th October 2019, 01:00 PM

Coldplay vs Adele in the album charts. Love it!

Will be interesting to hear this. I hope it's not album of Rap and Grime. I'm not here for that!

Posted by: TheJü-Pumpkin 14th October 2019, 01:23 PM

So much for their retirement!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 14th October 2019, 01:51 PM

They said HFOD *could* be their last when it came out, but they never said they would retire.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 14th October 2019, 05:22 PM

A big supposed leak out now! Take it all with a grain of salt, however.

Here's what was 'revealed'

- The 8th album will be titled 'Fools Gold'
- It will be released on November 29th
- The first single will be released in the next 3 weeks, with teasing beginning next week (so we'll know if this is fake or not soon)
- The album is being mixed and almost complete
- The 9th album will be released Q4 2020/Q1 2021

The tracklisting for Fools Gold:

1. One Way Train (3:43)
2. Messiah (4:12)
3. Monkey's Paw (3:33)
4. Metamorphosis (5:42)
5. Mission A.B.O.R.T. (feat Daft Punk) (7:23)
6. Where Did It Go? (5:38)
7. The First Time I Said I Love You (4:08)
8. Concious Pilot (4:21)
9. A Fool's Errand (4:18)

Another feature on one of the tracks will also be Foster The People - really hope it's real because it sounds brilliant!

Coldplay also had some recording sessions with Daft Punk last year - so that adds a bit of weight to it.

Posted by: Wicked Wombat of the West 14th October 2019, 05:55 PM

So kinda like Midnight to A Sky Full of Stars with an initial experimental take before being unashamedly mainstream for the next release?

I'd certainly be interested in a more experimental sound though and a Daft Punk feature sounds amazing. Whatever it is, it's been so long so I'd take anything! (I was never convinced a Head Full of Dreams would be their last, they only ever hinted at it and they're still as big as ever).

Posted by: lewistgreen 14th October 2019, 06:22 PM

I am all about a Daft Punk feature so it better be amazing

Posted by: pippa 14th October 2019, 06:27 PM

A Daft Punk and Coldplay collaboration would work brilliantly.

Posted by: gavindeejay 14th October 2019, 08:20 PM

The Daft Punk collaboration sounds interesting. If true that will be life!

Posted by: pippa 14th October 2019, 08:25 PM

A team like that could secure a big hit.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 14th October 2019, 08:32 PM

Probably not seeing as the song is apparently 7 minutes long

Posted by: Steve201 14th October 2019, 09:24 PM

Lol at Q4 being quiet!!

Posted by: Bréxit 14th October 2019, 10:10 PM

This 'Magic' erasure!

I'd love to hear some more songs from them in the vein of 'Midnight' so I'll be hoping that's what they mean by "experimental". But whatever it turns out to be, I'm really glad we are getting more music from them because the 'Kaleidoscope' EP would have been a super super underwhelming way to end the Coldplay discography, here's praying this will be significantly better. I never really believed 'A Head Full Of Dreams' would actually be their last album either as they were rather vague about that statement.

Posted by: Bloodjerdling 14th October 2019, 10:12 PM

Exciting news! Seeing them on tour is really overdue so I hope that'll happen as well.

Posted by: Trick Or Queef! 14th October 2019, 10:40 PM

They should always release songs like Midnight. They are now just commercial pap.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 14th October 2019, 10:59 PM

Oh no evil commercial music

Posted by: Juan Carlos 15th October 2019, 06:13 AM

It seems that the next album will be out on November 22.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 15th October 2019, 07:16 AM

It's actually happening! The other guy in the picture is apparently Argentinian explorer Francisco Moreno, who died on November 22, 1919.

So it would link to the rumored title of 'Fools Gold'

Posted by: MɅ††ᏆɅS 15th October 2019, 08:05 AM

There could be an 'edit' version haha

I'd love to actually get back into this band, X&Y used to be one of my favourite albums and I suddenly have the urge to listen to Ghost Stories again now ha.

Posted by: Trick Or Queef! 15th October 2019, 09:39 AM

They used to be so much better. Cemetaries of London is where it all fell apart. After that, they just became a commercial pop band.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 15th October 2019, 09:54 AM

Adventures of a Lifetime is my favourite single from them, I much prefer their poppier music.

Posted by: Bjork 15th October 2019, 10:28 AM

that single was easily their worst ever, they almost sounded like the Corry

for me their were amazing for album 1 & 2, then totally lost it for me

Posted by: Trick Or Queef! 15th October 2019, 10:45 AM

This.

WhoOdyssey, if you support the cheapening of music, selling out etc, for ONE act, then you are encouraging other acts to do it too! Yesterday it was Ellie Goulding and Coldplay, tomorrow who else? It ruins music. Coldplay have totally lost it.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 15th October 2019, 11:30 AM

I really hope you're joking

Let them make what they want, personally I enjoy Coldplay's poppier music. That isn't the same for me with other artists

(And I meant single rather than album obvs for AOAL, though HFOD is also my fave album)

Posted by: Trick Or Queef! 15th October 2019, 11:51 AM

They sold out. They are no U2.

Posted by: gavindeejay 15th October 2019, 12:21 PM

Looking forward to this already! Really looking forwards to hearing the Daft Punk collab. I think that could be my song of the year!

Posted by: Trick Or Queef! 15th October 2019, 12:52 PM

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 15th October 2019, 04:11 PM

The poster has now been taken down, apparently it's not supposed to be up until Friday!

Posted by: Trick Or Queef! 15th October 2019, 11:26 PM

No point in taking it down only to put it up again in a few days when we've all seen it anyway

Posted by: Nick6 16th October 2019, 08:39 PM

I need another Midnight or Magic.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 17th October 2019, 07:17 AM

All the 'Fools Gold' rumors have been confirmed fake, including the Coldplay collab.

Though today something very interesting has happened on YouTube and Spotify!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 17th October 2019, 02:15 PM

Hopefully we'll be hearing some news tomorrow! The posters have also now been spotted in Madrid, Berlin and Warsaw

Posted by: Bjork 17th October 2019, 03:40 PM

boo so it seems like there are more chances of a Coldplay singles tomorrow than Adele's :/

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 17th October 2019, 03:47 PM

I doubt we'll be seeing a single tomorrow, though I'd be very happy with one! An announcement is more likely I suspect.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 19th October 2019, 12:24 PM

It's coming!

Posted by: Bjork 19th October 2019, 01:42 PM

fierce competition in albums on Nov 22

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 19th October 2019, 01:50 PM

If Adele doesn't release, I'd imagine Coldplay would comfortably be #1 against The Who and a Robbie Williams Christmas album.

Posted by: Bjork 19th October 2019, 02:04 PM

the Who are out on Dec 6
sure Coldplay is a surefire #1 unless it's too experimental or crap ala Los Unidades
but I wouldn't rule out Robbie, sure he has his target audience

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 19th October 2019, 02:08 PM

Ah yeah got mixed up with The Who!

But I think Coldplay's name alone would get them the #1, their last album sold 235k in week 1. Robbie's last album sould 67k in week 1.

(and I'd suspect a Christmas album wouldn't be as popular as a regular Robbie album)

Posted by: gavindeejay 19th October 2019, 08:04 PM

I really hope this doesn’t ruin Coldplay’s number 1 album streak. Their last album only had one lucky week at Number 1 thanks to Adele hogging it.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 20th October 2019, 09:12 AM

Looking forward to hearing what the reinvention is!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 21st October 2019, 10:56 AM

Random fans have received a letter from the band saying that it's a double album! One half is called 'Sunrise', and the other 'Sunset' - and it's out on November 22nd. And the overall project is called 'Everyday Life'

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 21st October 2019, 11:26 AM

Same here, I like their singles that don't necessarily sound like Coldplay because I just don't like the band generally.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 22nd October 2019, 02:12 PM

There is a countdown on Coldplay's website to 19:30 on Thursday - looks like we'll be getting the lead single then!

Posted by: Bjork 22nd October 2019, 02:29 PM

why would anybody do an experimental album and then go and call it Everyday Life
the title sounds like the opposite of experimental

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 22nd October 2019, 02:44 PM

The tracklisting and artwork has also appeared on Amazon Italy (no confirmation if it's real yet or not)

Posted by: gavindeejay 22nd October 2019, 02:52 PM

Looks like it's getting Radio 1's Hottest Record then!

Looking forward to hearing it!

Posted by: Jordan Lee 22nd October 2019, 03:45 PM

This is definitely going to #1 unless we get something from Adele first

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 23rd October 2019, 11:44 AM

The source code for the website also confirms it's for a single as it reads "coldplay:single-page site" - hyped for this tomorrow!

Posted by: danG 23rd October 2019, 11:50 AM

I wouldn’t be so sure if this is supposedly ‘experimental’ especially as Tones and I is still doing very well.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 23rd October 2019, 11:58 AM

I guessed they were talking about the album?

Posted by: blacksquare 23rd October 2019, 12:26 PM

That listing is correct — 'Orphans' and 'Arabesque' are both released tomorrow.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 23rd October 2019, 12:29 PM

Amazing news! (though not officially confirmed yet)

Orphans is 3:17, and Arabesque is 5:40 - so I imagine Orphans is the one they'll push.

Posted by: Bjork 24th October 2019, 11:18 AM

oh wasn't expecting 2 songs ala Camila

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th October 2019, 11:20 AM

Jo Whiley has heard the album, and about it she said "I think it's brilliant, it's brave, it doesn't fit in with anything else that's out there at the moment. There's some classic Coldplay stuff and then there's also very much not classic Coldplay stuff."

Posted by: Bjork 24th October 2019, 11:28 AM

really hope it's more a back to basics
for me the worst Coldplay is the one of Every teardrop is a waterfall, and most of their recent output has been a carbon copy of that

Posted by: danG 24th October 2019, 11:32 AM

so is the Daft Punk collab not real then? are features yet to be announced or are there none?

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th October 2019, 11:35 AM

Yeah the tracklisting with the Daft Punk collab was confirmed as fake, and we don't know about any actual features on the album (if any).

Posted by: gavindeejay 24th October 2019, 11:54 AM

Looking forward to hearing these! Gutted about the Daft Punk collab not happening but still new Coldplay!

Posted by: Bréxit 24th October 2019, 11:57 AM

Leaked tracklists are fake like 99% of the time lol ~

Looking forward to this anyhoo!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th October 2019, 11:58 AM

To be fair, the second leaked tracklist was real

Posted by: Bjork 24th October 2019, 12:37 PM

but they did work in the studio with daft punk, didn't they

Posted by: Bréxit 24th October 2019, 01:50 PM

That was on Amazon though wasn't it? That's not really a 'leak' in the same way. I mean the ones that randomly show up on Twitter with some dodgy screenshot etc.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th October 2019, 01:53 PM

Ah yeah, you're right - I forgot that was how the second tracklist came about.

Posted by: .MIKE. 24th October 2019, 06:35 PM

Just caught ‘orphans’ on the radio by accident... and it’s really good. They are absolute pros at making those euphoric songs

Posted by: gavindeejay 24th October 2019, 06:36 PM

‘Orphans’ is really good. Enjoyed that one!

Posted by: gavindeejay 24th October 2019, 06:48 PM

Really blown away by ‘Arabesque’. Very different for them and a great use of instruments and sounds used.

Think ‘Orphans’ will be the track pushed for radio though as it has a similar sound to the ‘Head Full Of Dreams’ era. Hopefully straight to A List on Radio 1 tomorrow!

Posted by: lewistgreen 24th October 2019, 07:14 PM

Posted by: Jester 24th October 2019, 07:26 PM

Love Orphans - so happy they are back.

Posted by: SKOB 24th October 2019, 07:29 PM

Not keen on either of these, Orphans is better than their worst singles though so there's that.

Posted by: Wicked Wombat of the West 24th October 2019, 07:33 PM

WOW at Arabesque, Coldplay doing woke Jazz and succeeding, who'd have thought?! Really loving it, that's definitely the kind of experimentation I like to see from them. Doubt it will be that big a hit though (at least not with that runtime), but I'm certainly interested to hear more of that kind of thing on the album.

Orphans on the other hand, very quirky lyrics aside, is pretty much textbook Coldplay, could be lifted right from their last album BUT I still really like it, so euphoric and joyful as per for them, and I'm sure that will do much better.

How wonderful to have them back

Posted by: SKOB 24th October 2019, 07:38 PM

If Foals can't get a streaming hit with their tracks, Coldplay shouldn't either but we'll see.

Posted by: Juan Carlos 24th October 2019, 08:00 PM

That's right. "Orphans" is the track they're pushing to radio.

Posted by: Juan Carlos 24th October 2019, 08:02 PM

SNL performance on November 2.

View this post on Instagram

Posted by: Bjork 24th October 2019, 08:06 PM

what do Foals have to do with Coldplay???

Posted by: Cqmerqn 24th October 2019, 08:09 PM

Really liking Orphans! Idk how it’ll do chart wise tho

Posted by: Juan Carlos 24th October 2019, 08:13 PM

According to the press release, the music video for "Orphans" will premiere tomorrow at 1pm. BST on YouTube. Both tracks were produced by The Dream Team and "Arabesque" features vocals from Stromae and horns by Femi Kuti and his band.

Posted by: danG 24th October 2019, 08:54 PM

Both new songs are great! I suspect 'Orphans' will hold up better for being more commercial but at least they actually meant it when they said they'd do some experimental stuff.

Is anyone up for doing a GH rate? I've made a playlist and gonna revisit.



Princess Of China still holds up seems to be very underrated now though.

Posted by: Cqmerqn 24th October 2019, 09:34 PM

Already very addicted to Orphans!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 25th October 2019, 12:49 PM

Oprhans video out now! Really enjoying both songs

Posted by: Bjork 25th October 2019, 01:12 PM

personally very disappointed, they can do much better than this

Posted by: Burns 25th October 2019, 01:13 PM

Quite enjoyed on first and second listens; I think it’s Orphans that makes me start singing “here comes the bride” to the chorus. One of them did anyway

Posted by: Bréxit 28th October 2019, 08:41 PM

Both of these songs are definitely much better than anything off 'Kaleidoscope', thank god! 'Orphans' is pretty Coldplay-by-numbers but I'm not gonna complain at that, have already heard it twice on the radio and it sounds great on there, very joyful sounding song despite the downbeat lyrics. Just heard 'Arabesque' now and it's not quite as instant naturally but I was getting into it more as it went on and continued building, definitely think it'll grow more with more listens. Loving the saxophone on it in particular. x

Posted by: 파벨 29th October 2019, 01:14 PM

Arabesque >>> Orphans

Posted by: SKOB 29th October 2019, 01:51 PM

I'm not feeling either of the new tracks, might wait until the album release to listen to them again.

Posted by: pippa 30th October 2019, 03:24 PM

These songs are not of their finest work but i have no doubt the album will house at the least a few good tracks.
The reception to their new material is lukewarm at best, the album, therefore, may not open on the strong sales that is usually expected from them.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 2nd November 2019, 07:19 PM

'Everyday Life' (title track) has appeared on iTunes with the running time of 4:18, so it looks like that will be released soon (probably this week or the week after).

And on November 22nd, the band will be performing the album in Jordan and livestreaming it (Sunrise will be live at 4am GMT, Sunset 2pm).



And this fake conference video is brilliant

Posted by: Juan Carlos 3rd November 2019, 06:06 AM

The title track is available now.

Posted by: Bré 3rd November 2019, 11:46 PM

Oh this is absolutely beautiful, already like it even more than the first two songs I think! That instrumentation

Posted by: Bjork 4th November 2019, 08:28 AM

finally a good song, Orphans is such a mediocre song, a 4/10 being generous

Posted by: Big Boobs Vjay! 4th November 2019, 08:31 AM

Awful commercial music.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 4th November 2019, 09:15 AM

How is Arabesque commercial?

Posted by: Tones and Iz 5th November 2019, 01:57 AM

I have to ask, what do you want from Coldplay? Orphans is standard stadium rock but enjoyable enough and is aimed at people who are just expecting that from them. I love Arabesque, much like the Nightwish track of the same name (sorry, I have to) it's an interesting departure from their normal sound to appease those who want something musically challenging, I'd be surprised they released a track like this if they hadn't done Midnight too.

Everyday Life is lush. That's the best sort of Coldplay, where they get the vocals almost lost in strong instrumentation that bring the feelings out.

Posted by: Bjork 5th November 2019, 08:27 AM

as someone suggested above, a Coldplay rate would be really interesting
to see the contrast between early day fans of Yellow and The Scientist vs recent fans that like pop Coldplay of Everyday is a Waterfall/Ritmo de la Noche

Posted by: gavindeejay 5th November 2019, 08:44 AM

I'd love a Coldplay rate or least favourite poll (which I prefer to rates). I think it would be a great addition to this forum and drive some footfall in here!

Posted by: Big Boobs Vjay! 5th November 2019, 09:57 AM

Not this. The latest tracks are calculated and commercial and just not good at all. They're diet Coldplay and they're not on my listening lists.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 5th November 2019, 10:15 AM

Ah yeah the super commercial sounding Arabesque

Posted by: Big Boobs Vjay! 5th November 2019, 10:21 AM

It is though. It's just a calculated and very poor track. It's jsut Ed Sheeraning music.

Posted by: Dexton 5th November 2019, 10:28 AM

Arabesque is an Ed Sheeran song?

Arctic Monkeys comparisons i can get but really really really not Ed Sheeran

Coldplay have never been too experimental with their music, sure the odd track they release is different to the rest but they aren’t a band known for often invigorating their sound. I don’t see why people have a problem with them doing the same thing theyve been doing for nearly 20 years tbh

Posted by: Tones and Iz 5th November 2019, 01:30 PM

there's ed sheeran focus group calculated which feels bad, and then there's a band doing literally the same thing they've done for getting on for two decades because people like it. That doesn't feel bad. And that's my gut feeling for whether it's the bad kind of manipulating an audience commercial trash or just a naturally popular sort of commercial trash.

Posted by: Bré 5th November 2019, 10:20 PM

If more artists could start calculating their music to be 6 minute multilingual jazz rock epics and that becomes mainstream that'd be wonderful tbh.

The other two songs, to be fair, are very much standard Coldplay formula but that sound isn't exactly particularly popular at the moment, it's just Coldplay being Coldplay xx

Aside: if it is actually true that the album's 2 discs are a 'safe' disc and a 'more experimental' one (which seems to be the case based on 'Arabesque' being on the opposite disc to the other two), it's interesting that the more experimental one is actually disc 1 meaning it'll be the one that theoretically will get the highest streams and the charting album tracks when the album comes out. Unless a lot of people clock onto this and just skip straight to disc 2 having no interest in the more experimental stuff.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 5th November 2019, 10:45 PM

I mean I get the sellout thing if you just go by the singles (and you can't blame them when that's what makes them money), but really, if you listened to their albums, they've experimented a lot in sound over the years, or a lot more than their given credit for. Viva la Vida and Ghost Stories (well, Midnight ) in particular have some pretty unconventional sounds in there, and Arabesque clearly shows they're still willing to do that (I wish all Ed Sheeran songs sounded like that ), it just isn't given a lot of attention because it unfortunately doesn't sell that well.

Posted by: Bjork 6th November 2019, 10:01 AM

yes but for every Arabesque they have a song like Every Teardrop is a Waterfall or Adventure of a Lifetime, which imho, are worst and a biggest sellout than Ed Sheeran

Posted by: lewistgreen 6th November 2019, 07:31 PM

Preview of Guns

Posted by: Mack. 11th November 2019, 03:29 PM

Quite late to this, but 'Orphans' sounding good from them. Hoping that it can manage to hold up in the chart and not drop down the charts.

Posted by: darrens94 13th November 2019, 08:24 PM

Had a listen to the whole album today and apart from Orphans, Everyday Life and Champion of the World, the rest of the songs don’t really do much for me on first listen.

Posted by: Bjork 13th November 2019, 09:20 PM

I take it the album leaked

looks like Daddy is the next single with a super spectacular video out on album release day

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 13th November 2019, 09:26 PM

Yeah the video for Daddy is from Aardman Animations!

Posted by: Steve201 13th November 2019, 11:56 PM

Guns is pretty decent!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 20th November 2019, 01:01 AM

Been hearing lots of positive things about the leaks, looking forward to it on Friday!

Posted by: gavindeejay 20th November 2019, 11:50 AM

I'm going to hold off the leaks and look forward to buying it properly on Friday.

Posted by: Bjork 20th November 2019, 12:01 PM

funny how they've change the story this time around
with the last couple albums they were saying it's the final album and they were calling it a day
but now they're saying a new album will be out next year already

Posted by: gavindeejay 20th November 2019, 05:29 PM

‘Daddy’ has just been released along with the video

Posted by: Chez Wombat 20th November 2019, 05:59 PM

Video and song are wonderful, could be straight off Parachutes or Ghost Stories (quite the eclectic album this is looking!).

Posted by: Bjork 20th November 2019, 06:05 PM

easily the best of the lot so far

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 20th November 2019, 08:26 PM

It's alright, not something I see myself coming back to. Orphans is still my fave, then Everyday Life.

Posted by: Bjork 20th November 2019, 08:53 PM

I still find Orphans such a mediocre and disappointing song, it's b-side material imho, can't believe Max Martin was involved and this was the result

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 20th November 2019, 08:53 PM

Now Champion of the World I *really* like!

Posted by: Jester 20th November 2019, 08:59 PM

That is a beautiful song - very twinkly Coldplay, the best type!

Posted by: Big Boobs Vjay! 20th November 2019, 09:03 PM

THIS!!!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 22nd November 2019, 12:36 PM

This performance is amazing! Looking forward to listening to the album later

Posted by: Bjork 22nd November 2019, 01:15 PM

The album is very very disappointing to say the least, seems they've lost all the inspiration and don't know what to do anymore, the album lacks total direction, seriously think they should have scrap it and throw it to the bin and start again... it's just ideas but no cohesive and no sense of direction, just plain bad

Posted by: Big Boobs Vjay! 22nd November 2019, 01:17 PM

What aboot the experimental tracks??

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 22nd November 2019, 01:21 PM

I'm halfway through and really enjoying it - don't think they'd scrap one of their most acclaimed albums in years

'Trouble in Town' is the standout track for me right now.

Posted by: jszmiles 22nd November 2019, 02:52 PM

indeed Trouble in Town is probably best one on this longplay. I would remove those "talking parts" though. it ruins the whole Atmosphere

Posted by: Better Man 22nd November 2019, 09:52 PM

I like Coldplay from the beginning and always follow to them, though prefer their first 4 albums much more than subsequent ones.
But unfortunately, the new album is rather boring and mostly songs are mononone.
So just wait for the next one.

If compare this to Ghost Stores I'm with GS. Especially because of 'O' track. In my opinion it's their Top-5 track.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 23rd November 2019, 07:32 PM

I think this is definitely their most diverse and interesting album since Viva la Vida, I'm not sure if it's fully cohesive, it really does sound that they traveled around the world picking up every genre they could think of and throw it all together in one album, whether they were finished or not It doesn't always work (Doo-wop and Gospel aren't really genres Coldplay should be trying), but when it does, it's really quite excellent. Trouble in Town, Church, Eko and بنی آدم are particular highlights and Daddy is becoming a favourite for me it's kinda weird mixing these experimental tracks with classic Coldplay moments like Orphans and Champion of the World, it feels like the last few tracks should definitely be on a different album.

I'm really happy they're taking risks and trying new things at this stage in their career and I hope it'll stop the constant calls that they never change their formula or sound, for me, this is a much more interesting album than their last few and frankly I much prefer an album that revels in experimentation with not every track pulling it off over one that focuses on consistency but with a lot of tracks sounding the same.

Posted by: Steve201 24th November 2019, 01:18 AM

The second half is better than the more experimental first 8 piece for me.

Posted by: Bré 26th November 2019, 12:23 AM

Planning to give this album a first listen tomorrow but for now have just listened to the last 2 songs dropped before it - 'Daddy' is an absolute stunner, adore the video as well, reminds me a little of Steven Wilson's 'Routine' from BJSC (although thankfully without the sad ending x) think that is my fave of the five pre-album songs. 'Champion Of The World' on the other hand is comfortably my least fave of them although I am still liking it, just a little more on the ordinary side as far as Coldplay songs go and it doesn't have as strong a hook as 'Orphans' to make it stick to the memory. Very excited to hear the rest.

Needless to say praying this holds its own to get the #1 album this week and maintain their 100% record as I really doubt it'll have a second chance to rise to the top like 'A Head Full Of Dreams' did if Robbie beats them out this week eek...

Posted by: Bré 27th November 2019, 08:47 PM

Had a listen now and I'll agree with Chez that it's not exactly the most cohesive album. It feels like the 5 singles plus 'Church' and 'Trouble In Town' are the only properly fleshed out and finished songs and the rest is kind of a loose collection of diversions and demos padding it out to double album length. Some of those diversions are pretty good, 'When I Need A Friend' in particular I think is really gorgeous (as is the intro track) and 'Bani Adam' (aka track 14, I'm romanising it so I don't have to try and messily copy and paste right to left text x) has some wonderful ideas going on too. Others do not work nearly as well - 'BrokEn' is nice but it felt like I was listening to 'JESUS IS KING' again and it didn't really make much sense coming between 'Trouble In Town' and 'Daddy' 'WOTW / POTP' just sounds very unfinished and its inclusion feels pretty pointless, I'm not keen at all on 'Guns' aside from the guitars so I'm glad that was one of the shortest songs, the run of tracks 11-13 is all just nice sounding and not much more. However, all of the longer songs on the album are consistently very good ('Champion Of The World' has grown on me and I'm really loving 'Church' in particular, 'Trouble In Town' is also v good), I just wish there were a few more of them that weren't already released as singles! And like Chez said it is good that they're trying out lots of different ideas for songs rather than just churning out 11 safe traditional Coldplay songs, even if their experimentation doesn't always pan out into really essential songs.

tl;dr basically what Chez said (including the part about 'Daddy' being the best on the album )

Posted by: Steve201 28th November 2019, 12:06 AM

I hope Daddy gets a release at some point, would have been a good song for this time of year imo!

Posted by: Bré 28th November 2019, 12:33 AM

It already did 'get a release', it was one of the singles (and even has a music video)...

Posted by: Steve201 29th November 2019, 01:21 AM

Hopefully it gets some airplay though. Orphans has already been dropped from radio 2 so let's see what's next!

Posted by: gavindeejay 9th December 2019, 01:57 PM

'Everyday Life' the title track has been sent out to radio today with a brand new radio version of the track.

Posted by: WhoChristmasssy 9th December 2019, 06:41 PM

Everyday Life video out now:

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 9th December 2019, 11:56 PM

Cool, good single choice. Although I would have went with 'Daddy'.

Posted by: Sambuu-Yondon 18th December 2019, 12:34 AM

"Everyday Life" is named one of the best albums of 2019 by NME.

Posted by: WhoChristmassy 18th December 2019, 12:39 AM

It was at #43 in their list just to make that clear.

Posted by: Sambuu-Yondon 20th December 2019, 12:26 AM

and placed at #28 of Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2019"

on Metacritic, received 73 score (Coldplay's 2nd best, only behind to A Rush of Blood to The Head)

Posted by: Juan Carlos 7th February 2020, 11:25 PM

"Champion Of The World" will be pushed as the next single from the album.

Posted by: M4NGO 15th February 2020, 03:49 PM

A video has just been released for 'Cry Cry Cry' - does that mean that's the next single instead of 'Champion'?

Posted by: gavindeejay 21st February 2020, 08:00 AM

Coldplay have released three "Reimagined' versions of tracks from 'Everyday Life' today.

1. BrokEn (Reimagined)
2. Champion of The World (Reimagined)
3. Cry Cry Cry (Reimagined)

'Champion of the World (Reimagined)' is track 6 on Apple Music's 'New Music Daily playlist today.

Posted by: burning up! 24th February 2020, 07:17 PM

I likw Cry cry cry as a new single

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 24th February 2020, 09:44 PM

Champion of the World vid releasing tomorrow - one of my faves from the album.

Posted by: gavindeejay 25th February 2020, 09:12 AM

‘Champion of The World’ has been sent out to UK radio

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 25th February 2020, 04:22 PM

and the video is out now:

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 29th August 2020, 11:44 PM

I'll spin this into a new topic if there's more concrete proof soon, but it looks like the next album may be upon us! (Which would go with the leak last year that there would be a more commercial album in 2020)

Posted by: Bjork 30th August 2020, 08:27 AM

Really? Wasn't expecting that

Posted by: gavindeejay 30th August 2020, 09:41 AM

Excellent news! Look forward to hearing more about new music. I just hope the underperformance of Everyday Life hasn’t done too much damage to them!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 30th August 2020, 09:48 AM

I'm sure they were expecting that given how different it was, but at this point they could never release music again and still be massive

Posted by: Steve201 30th August 2020, 11:57 AM

I don't know I've a feeling after 20 years the hugeness of Coldplay could be waning mainly because of the lead singers personality.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 30th August 2020, 12:11 PM

In what way? That's the first time I've heard that

Posted by: Jester 30th August 2020, 01:06 PM

Ooh I’d love more Coldplay this year!

Posted by: Bjork 30th August 2020, 01:07 PM

Don't get it either, if their popularity decreases sure its cos the music not being as good
Chris has an amazing personality, he's hilarious

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 1st September 2020, 04:17 PM

Alas they posted Magic today, which debunks the theory

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 1st September 2020, 04:53 PM

OR MAYBE NOT!!

Posted by: FestiveOdyssey 20th December 2020, 04:24 PM

Japanese-exclusive bonus track "Flags" will be available everywhere on streaming from midnight!

Posted by: Christmasteve201 20th December 2020, 04:40 PM

Must check this out, hope it’s better than the rest of the album!

Posted by: FestiveOdyssey 20th December 2020, 04:48 PM

Just heard it, it's one of my favourites from there tbh! I do much prefer their upbeat stuff, hopefully that more commercial album is coming next year that's been rumoured for quite a while.

Apparently Orphans was supposed to be on their next one, but was moved to Everyday Life to give it a more commercial lead single, that bodes well for me as I love that one!

Posted by: Jester 20th December 2020, 05:18 PM

Great track - look forward to buying it

Posted by: Michael Bubré 20th December 2020, 05:53 PM

Can't even remember if I ever listened to 'Flags' oops (been aware of it existing for a while but I normally don't bother looking up exclusive bonus tracks), glad that it is going to finally get a proper worldwide release.

Posted by: FestiveOdyssey 21st December 2020, 09:08 AM

Sounding brilliant!

Posted by: gavindeejay 21st December 2020, 09:19 AM

Enjoyed that.

Hopefully they can turn the tide on this flop of an album with their next release.

Posted by: Bjork 21st December 2020, 09:32 AM

the album didn't do half bad considering the few good songs it has
and Orphans being such a weak lead

Posted by: FestiveOdyssey 21st December 2020, 09:34 AM

I'm sure they expected it to not do as well given how much of a departure it was for them, and it's been their most well critically received album in ages - so they'll be happy with that.

Posted by: gavindeejay 21st December 2020, 09:46 AM

'Orphans' to me is a similar sound to their 'A Head Full Of Dreams' album, unless I'm missing something. 'Everyday Life' was a fantastic track, should have lead with that really.

Posted by: Christmasteve201 22nd December 2020, 10:30 AM

There were 2-3 good songs on it but found myself returning to it less and less. Found it quite a struggle to listen to tbh