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This is a band that knows how to write sad music. The couple announced their break-up while the first single-the super-chill “Magic,” which might be my least favorite Coldplay single ever-wound its way through the charts.īut Coldplay's break-up with its uplifting choruses is the most conscious uncoupling on display here. Chris Martin’s marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow was evidently suffering as he wrote and recorded the album-“I think of you, I haven’t slept” is the first line and "Maybe one day I'll fly next to you, so fly on” is the last. Ever since X&Y, which even Coldplay’s die-hards will admit was a sugary turd, the band has lurched from stripped-down rock ( Viva La Vida, a toe-tapping triumph of mid-tempo melodies), to twinkling pop on Mylo Xyloto, to this, an electronica meditation on the end of a relationship. But every Coldplay album is a minor departure these days. This marks a minor departure for the band whose last album, Mylo Xyloto, was a pop-rock-opera that came dangerously close to fun. The best-written songs-the looping intro, “Always in My Head,” the acoustic throwback “Oceans,” the piano-ballad finale “O”-scarcely have what a listener might recognize as a chorus. The mood clings desperately to melancholy wistfulness throughout. The album is a state-of-the-art hydrotherapy tank-a lavish, electric-powered, whirling vat of feelings. It transcends the category of “bath rock" mostly by leaving behind the second syllable. There’s no rule that saying songs have to be complicated or thrilling.īut Ghost Stories, Coldplay's latest album, is really, really neither complicated nor thrilling. I love this band, not for its efforts to break rules, but for its underrated ability to play within the rules of mainstream pop to compose relentlessly memorable music. After all, I've written thousands of words about Coldplay for this site. "Bath rock," its even calmer descendant coming of age in the late 1990s, is better suited to people, like myself, who prefer their sonic waters even less choppy. Artists like Kenny Loggins and Toto belonged to a 1970s genre called “yacht rock” for a reason-it blended easily with waves lapping a hull. Billie Eilish’s Music Revealed What Her SNL Sketches Couldn’t Amanda Wicks
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