The band’s been judiciously political since Martin was scrawling “MAKE TRADE FAIR” on his hand. There are choirs, orchestral strings and an Alice Coltrane sample interpolations of the Janis Joplin signature “Cry Baby,” and late Scottish indie-rocker Scott Hutchison’s “Los Angeles, Be Kind.” Lyrics and soundbites address racism, police violence, gun proliferation, and Syria missile strikes. Signifying ambition as in days of yore, Everyday Life is a double studio LP it’s Coldplay’s rangiest and deepest release by orders of magnitude, maybe even their best.ĭivided into halves titled (wait for it) “Sunrise” and “Sunset,” the band taps into storefront gospel, Nigerian afrobeat, and Sufi qawwali music. This is positive: when Ed Sheeran becomes your gold standard, it would seem time for a rethink. After their platinum 2015 pop-pivot A Head Full of Dreams, an all-star Super Bowl halftime show and a two-year big-box tour that shifted $523 million in tickets, easy-listening rock champs Coldplay release an album that aspires to more than stadium-packing.
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