Ngl, I actually like this quite a bit. Even as someone who's not a big Coldplay fan

Haha it’s proggy because space

I’ll have to check this

"Coldplay go prog" terrifying title
no way i'm listening to ten uninterrupted minutes of these boys though

Every teardrop is a waterfall

A wa-wa-wa-

Waterfall

I liked Coldplay for a time and will check too

>dark side of the moon
>prog

David Gilmour can now finally die knowing prog lives on

I didn't think I'd be impressed by a Coldplay song in the decade of 2020's, but this is pretty great.

AND IT WAS ALL YELLOW! wait hold on

Finally

AND IT WAS ALL YELLOW! wait hold on

can't delete comments. track is decent at best. good background noise for sure

This sounds strange. Will check eventually.

Coldplay be like: "Yo, this sounds boring as fuck. Drop it."

Boring and slow but it's aight.

"Coldplay be like: "Yo, this sounds boring as fuck. Drop it."
hahahah damn why that made me laugh so hard idk

kill it with fire

"Coldplay be like: "Yo, this sounds boring as fuck. Drop it.""
lmao
Coldplay in a nutshell

Sharpy your comment is somehow better for the staggered doublepost

">dark side of the moon
>prog"

Is that the new contrarian take now? That DSotM isn't Prog?

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This isn't really that much of a stylistic shift. Coldplay have always had Progressive Pop influences in their music, they just avoided the "extended time signature" cliché of most Prog.

It's literally just a Coldplay ballad stretched to 10 minutes and to reach that mark there's a bunch of fluff that would usually serve as interludes. Absolutely nothing about this is in any way a "surprising stylistic swerve".

It's inoffensive and decent enough, but no way in hell am I ever gonna sit through the whole thing at once. Super boring...

And I'm saying that as someone who likes a ton of Coldplay's output, but they peaked long ago and it's been all downhill from there.

I do hope they prove me wrong one day.

IDK I kinda dig it. It's relaxing and has a nice vocal harmony. Reminds me of their "Fix You" era.

Not gonna lie I kinda love this. Way way better than anything by them since at least Viva La Vida.

this didn't need to be 10 minutes long

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Kinda curious to check the record but those lyrics are a bit of a yikers

The most surprising thing about this is the revelation that Coldplay are a ‘rock band’.

Viva la Vida and Everyday Life are both Rock records so IDK why they wouldn't be considered Rock. Even if they are not pure Rock, they still do a lot of Pop Rock which would still make them a Rock band.

everyday life is not a rock record

"Is that the new contrarian take now?"
no

That was actually pretty beautiful, must admit! This album may be decent!

It's quite interesting and different on the usual genre that they make. What's next, Coldplay? Pop-punk or post-grunge?

Pleasant start so far

"everyday life is not a rock record"

Yeah it is.

Stop pretending you know everything about everything, you don't.

lmao okay mr. Caesar Was The Best Emperor please point out where the rock songs on that rock record are hiding, bc i'm counting and the numbers are not adding up

All the fat chicks listen to Coldplay.

Just finished the song. It was pleasant the whole time but meandered off into pointlessness. Solid 3.0 out of 5

"All the fat chicks listen to Coldplay."

Coldplay must be doing 3 night sold out stadium shows in San Antonio.

"lmao okay mr. Caesar Was The Best Emperor please point out where the rock songs on that rock record are hiding, bc i'm counting and the numbers are not adding up"

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Trouble in Town, Arabesque, Champion of the World, and Orphans are all Alternative Rock songs.

yeah you're gonna have to do better than 4/16 tracks to justify sticking up for metacritic genre tags in this neighbourhood. takes a hard fking shill to preface rock with Adult Contemporary Pop and still buy into it as the real deal

rock is a social construct

no it's not, it's right there on metacritic

"yeah you're gonna have to do better than 4/16 tracks to justify sticking up for metacritic genre tags in this neighbourhood. takes a hard fking shill to preface rock with Adult Contemporary Pop and still buy into it as the real deal"

an album can have multiple genres. Alt Rock, Art Rock, and Soft Rock are only a few of them. However that still makes it just as much as a Rock record as a Pop one.

Even if I were to say it is more Pop then Rock, then that would still make it a Pop Rock record, which is still fucking Rock. Whatever metacritic's views on music are, which isn't their fault, their tags are a reflection of what the majority of people view said album as.

Please remove thy cranium from thine posterior section.

well fuck me up, this is actually pretty great

the other single they dropped doesn't touch this though, so I'm betting we're still in for a mixed-bag when it comes to the full album itself

"the other single they dropped doesn't touch this though, so I'm betting we're still in for a mixed-bag when it comes to the full album itself"

Do we know if this a single on their upcoming LP or is it just a one-off thing?

skipping is johnny's main mode of transportation. he's so proficient at it that sometimes he just skips right over people on the street. they're all like "whaa???" but he's already 3 feet above them by that point

@Calligy it's listed as the final track on the album

"@Calligy it's listed as the final track on the album"

Ooh interesting.

Hopefully the album has more tracks similar to it, otherwise it'll just feel like the odd one out on the album.

They seem to have this intrinsic desire to push themselves (see Viva La Vida, Prospekt's March, and tracks from Everyday Life like Arabesque or Trouble in Town), but I think they're also not in denial about the market that nets them the most profit, so it'll most likely be 2-3 tracks like this one with random pop bangers interspersed. On Everyday Life they separated these styles in Side A (sunrise) and Side B (sunset), so I'm pretty sure it's a conscious decision to pursue both styles without committing to either.

"Even if I were to say it is more Pop then Rock blahblah rockpoppporpoocoporpoisealternarock"

jfc does it sound like rock? "wellllll actually yes if you view it in the context of these two heavily diluted subgenres that no-one would ever directly associate with rock unless actively prompted it certainly does". the whole point of genres is to be pragmatic; you're literally just juggling words to fit a pedantic set of categories for your personal convenience, which is, like, good for you and your library, but if there's one headass mentality at play here, it's that one. you might as well own it instead of pretending your genre gymnastics are helpful or relevant for anyone else itt idk

"the whole point of genres is to be pragmatic;"

Mofo you just called it Adult Contemporary Pop which is the most nonsense name for a genre ever. It means nothing. That's not being "pragmatic".

bullshit genre name for sure, straight off the metacritic cheat sheet you thought would be helpful to drag into this for whatever dumbass reason. check your shoelaces next time plz

song is pretty chill, heavy comfortably numb vibes at around the halfway mark

Wow this Daydreaming by Radiohead is a pretty good single, hope they drop the new album soon looking cool

I wouldn’t say Comfortably Numb as much as Time or Us and Them, but yeah

I'll never forget the feeling the first time I heard Trouble in Town and Arabesque.

synth strings at 4:30 are a straight rip from the comfortably numb chorus (and around 7:45 has inflections) but yh

No matter what you want to classify this as, it's definitely upper-tier Coldplay. Not quite on the level of Arabesque or Trouble in Town, or anything from Viva La Vida for that matter, but I'll take this strain/variant of Coldplay over most of their other forms.

I'd take this over Trouble In Town any day tbh, defs one of their better tracks

"bullshit genre name for sure, straight off the metacritic cheat sheet you thought would be helpful to drag into this for whatever dumbass reason. check your shoelaces next time plz"

It's nonsense because it is deliberately vague, not because it's wrong. Stop trying to get a "gotcha" out of me dude. All I said was the mere naming of Adult Contemporary is the exact opposite of pragmatic. It's not sensible, just vague.

Calling albums by their base attributes completely misrepresents what the music is and encompasses.

I'm a sucker for dark vibes Coldplay so Trouble in Town edges this one for me, but yeah, this is very nice and pleasant. Could see it doing well on my night driving playlist.

"It's not sensible, just vague"

about as vague as every other hybrid you're gratuitously trying to extract the rock mothergenre from, but go off

hand to god, I was about to leave a comment saying “I know johnny is tempted to end one of his comments with ‘but go off’ and he’s holding back” lmao

"hand to god, I was about to leave a comment saying “I know johnny is tempted to end one of his comments with ‘but go off’ and he’s holding back”"

My Johnny bingo card is on a role today!

Nobody on the street gives a shit about your stupid, pretentious view of "art".

But is it prog

"Nobody on the street gives a shit about your stupid, pretentious view of "art"."

There I changed it to 'music'

Happy?

lol @ that edit

i’m gonna make a johnny bingo card

lmfao colton think that's the first time i've ever used that, i am a changed boi but still with predictable skipping patterns

"Calling albums by their base attributes completely misrepresents what the art is and encompasses."

yeah, uh, did you rly start this discussion by accusing me of having my head up my arse?

Glad that my article caused so much contention

Most of the time it doesn't because popular music does not stray from genre tropes. Genre labels are not reductionist, all of you are wrong.

are you implying that groups such as coldplay are defined by their genre tropes more than their artistic specificities?

becaus/

achoo

“The whole point of genres is to be pragmatic”

Don't sneeze on me, you rat.

too late

noler have you ever wondered whether 95% of the english language is one giant joke at your expense

95% of your language maybe

and who tf is noler

an album can have multiple genres. Alt Rock, Art Rock, and Soft Rock are only a few of them. However that still makes it just as much as a Rock record as a Pop one.

Even if I were to say it is more Pop then Rock, then that would still make it a Pop Rock record, which is still fucking Rock. Whatever metacritic's views on music are, which isn't their fault, their tags are a reflection of what the majority of people view said album as.

nolan's 60%-brother, separated by 2 letters

A little afraid to listen to a 10 minute Coldplay song, but I love A rush of Blood and Viva La Vida so will give this a shot.

@ALA: correct answer

people love pigeon-holing albums into one or two genres max. It’s not like every album in existence is a purposeful genre experiment, in fact very few really are.

That was actually amazing, wasn’t expecting that however maybe this upcoming album will indeed be incredible. Haters will hate but I really enjoyed that song and was better on the 2nd listen and you know it’s good when a 10 minute song doesn’t feel like 10 mins at all

noler was a persona and nol is a meme what do they have in common

"95% of your language maybe"

sounds like more than enough to keep it coming

This is about 6 minutes too long

noldplay

People be acting like Viva La Vida isn't a jam and a half then are like "watt Coldplay trying to be weird das never been done b4"

Rules

"lmfao colton think that's the first time i've ever used that, i am a changed boi but still with predictable skipping patterns"

I guess I just knew you were gonna try your hand at it. It does make you seem younger, but in all the worst ways

I read the news article and immediatly knew Ghandhi would comment whining on D4rk S1d3 isn't pr0G lol

I liked old Coldplay and I like prog so I suppose I'll check this but I have no hopes for it

how? the sixth sense

>I read the news article and immediatly knew Ghandhi would comment whining on D4rk S1d3 isn't pr0G lol

"whining" is a strange word to use for being correct

most of the time sputnik users do not stray from commenting tropes

""whining" is a strange word to use for being correct"

except he's not

@jots
[2]
literally this

>except he's not

dsotm is art rock not prog so yea

"dsotm is art rock not prog so yea"

it's both yeh

Arguing about what is and isn't prog rock is the most prog rock thing you can do. It's almost as cringe as arguing about metal sub-genres.

two prog rock songs does not a prog rock album make

"Arguing about what is and isn't prog rock is the most prog rock thing you can do. It's almost as cringe as arguing about metal sub-genres."

also true. If I were to write a long ass comment on this topic just like I did with Ghandhi like a year ago it would end with a conclusion similar to that

no amount of money you could pay me to listen to this

Can you link me to some cringe arguments re attempting to define metal sub-genres please, assuming they exist… sounds amusing.

>Can you link me to some cringe arguments re attempting to define metal sub-genres please, assuming they exist… sounds amusing.

reddit.com/r/metal

I once had an argument on /r/metal about whether or not Black Sabbath is metal, if that gives you any idea of where their minds are.

"I once had an argument on /r/metal about whether or not Black Sabbath is metal, if that gives you any idea of where their minds are."

Did they use Sabotage as an argument? Cause I could see that happening.

>Did they use Sabotage as an argument? Cause I could see that happening.

Worse. The primary argument was Sabbath was too similar to the punk movement at the time, and therefore not metal.

ill take it over their current direction they've headed in the last 10 years. Kind of like when miley cyrus did from that art album with the flaming lips dude. It's a welcome experimentation.

"ill take it over their current direction they've headed in the last 10 years. Kind of like when miley cyrus did from that art album with the flaming lips dude. It's a welcome experimentation."

It was bland imo, feels like it isn't going anywhere but you're right on that, at least they're trying with something different to their usual style. Hopefully they'll keep going with these new ideas

"Worse. The primary argument was Sabbath was too similar to the punk movement at the time, and therefore not metal."

Well I'll admit, I've never heard that one before.

jesus this was boring

Everyone is like "wow this is better than expected" as if they didn't say the same exact thing last album cycle

I mean there is absolutely no lie detected there lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQenG42hyE8

Found this track teaser (warning: spoiler alert!) and now ngl I'm kinda hyped. Sounds like there will be some real gems (and one hell of a burner by Coldplay standards), and some standard pop tunes.

was hoping for a twelve string guitar djent jazz prog fusion

Now we just need for Coldplay to djent, and the circle will complete.

Coldplay go blackened technical bluegrass pirate metal

This is great

This is cute but the album sampler doesn't make me too hopeful

10 minutes of Coldplay is 10 minutes more than I can stand....

but will they go djent?

This is alright. Heck it's gold compared to the steaming turd that is 'Higher Power'.

The fact that some of the album track titles are literal emojis does not fill me with much confidence that the album will be any good.

The fact that some of the album track titles are literal emojis does not fill me with much confidence that the album will be any good

That’s what I keep bumping on. Cringe as fuck.

excited for this Sowing 5 aggregate 3 combo

hey have you heard 🥵 by the Coldplays

How does this Coldplay song make you feel? Tell us in 3 emojis or less

So basically the song is The Scientist and Fix You played back to back

🥱🙄🤦🏻

🗿🗿🗿

Bro, “ 👅🍆💦🥴” is my favorite Coldplay song

Sounds sexy.

"So basically the song is The Scientist and Fix You played back to back"
lmfao honestly

ZING

big fan of this one

Weren't these guys supposed to release their last album back in 2015 or something

but does it djent?

Coldplay - it's like everything they try, they get more pointless

It's a very good song tbh

I dream of a day I get called out that hard by JOTW so I can finally say I've truly lived. Song is fine. It drags for me, but I'm sure Coldplayers or whatever will call it the second coming and note that Chris Martin's name is awfully close to Christ Martin. 2/5

Nice music to fall asleep to. I think id dream of Chris martin punting a góndoła through the endless void.

does anyone actually like djent? probably not even the guys who invented it do, kinda like dubstep and trap i imagine

Hold on this is excellent...

The guitar solo and outro are marvelous

interesting tbh

A few plays and its quite good

RYM is making fun of us bros
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/coldplay/coloratura/

Reminds me of a mellower Sound of Contact

Next article - Imagine Dragons go deathcore

The other single is just generic synth pop. I got excited for a second.

wtf rym

What would progmaster say

comfortably dumb

this is nice but not much more

This song is like Nicholas Sparks trying to write Horror. Its just not happening. I appreciate the effort but its just blah.

late to the party but I'm sorry are we really calling this song prog because it definitely is not

True, definitely pop punk