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

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

 

THIS!!!

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

 

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

What aboot the experimental tracks??

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

 

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

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

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

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.

 

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 :lol: 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 :wub: 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.

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

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) :wub: 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...

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' :lol: '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 :heart:)

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

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

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

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

Everyday Life video out now:

 

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

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

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