Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off
This is just soooooo samey. Probably better than Mylo Xyoloto and Head Full of Dreams, but only because this is just painfully inoffensive.
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Album Rating: 2.5
This has other qualities besides just inoffensiveness, like some really nice instrumentation and soothing moments.
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Album Rating: 3.5
Album grew on me again.
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May have said this before but i think this could be one of Coldplay's best efforts had it been released as a 5 song EP. The best tracks here are really good imo.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Yeah agreed. Midnight especially is one of their best songs
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Album Rating: 4.5
This album gets called a lot of things - boring, depressing, uninspired, too clean... but I absolutely love it. For me it's a late-era Coldplay classic. It sounds absolutely lush and fantastic.
It's not simply incorporating electronic sounds - this is the sound of a band fully seeking to understand how to use ambient and electronic composition. They sought out Jon Hopkins, for example. Paul Epworth is also on the list, and he's great. Even Avicii at least sounds good here from a production standpoint. The little flourishes, such as the trilling hi-hats in 'Always In My Head' are perfect.
I find that the songwriting matches the atmosphere. The first side, in particular, is outstanding. Even the objectively weakest track - 'Another's Arms' - has Martin's clumsy songwriting guiding the instrumental perfectly. I also love Buckland's batshit solo on 'True Love', which serves as an ugly counterpoint to the otherwise euphoric U2-esque instrumental, underpinning Martin's lyrics. Man, I wish other people could see what I see in it.
Spoiler alert though - the album they rushed out after this is garbage, and lacked almost everything I found so interesting about this. Give me a broken Chris Martin over a high on life (and drinking with Beyonce) any day of the week.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Agreed in terms of this being instrumental (which does exist - I found it online) and don't have to hear Martin sing huskily into my ear about his "body on my body" multiple times, and so on.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I just sort of became immune to Chris Martin. Or so I thought until I the latest album dropped "turn your magic on" and "drink from me, drink from me... so high, so high, so high" and I became susceptible to terminal infection again
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
This album's great tbh. Midnight, Oceans and Fly On are amazing songs. Can't deny that there are a few cringey moments, though.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Also Con you should totally check Mylo Xyloto, it's pretty underrated
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Album Rating: 2.5
I jammed the instrumental version of this today and I think that's what I'll stick to for the most part.
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Album Rating: 4.0
The fact that review doesn't mention "Midnight" or "O" is kinda a glaring problem
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decent record really if you can ignore the proper orrible fake drums
midnight is one of their best tunes
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Listened to Train Of Thought first and now to this lol
Midnight is so beautiful, agreed. This record is nice actually and pretty inoffensive
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Album Rating: 2.0
yea this is super inconsistent but the great moments are transcendent
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Album Rating: 4.0
Can we talk about how Midnight is like the best thing ever again
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I just hate how generic all these 'pop-house' tracks are. A Sky Full of Stars could've probably been a pretty nice track if it wasn't for the drops and house production. Found the record a bit boring tbh, a tad too many ballad-like tracks
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But it has Midnight and that track is one of their best period
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Album Rating: 2.5
Definitely has its moments.
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Album Rating: 4.0
"I just hate how generic all these 'pop-house' tracks are"
You mean just "A Sky Full of Stars"? That's literally the only one here lmao
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