Aesthetically, it’s a deeper foray into glossy pop for the sake of showing our interconnectedness, kind of like 2015’s A Head Full of Dreams meets outer space. A concept album about a fictional, distant solar system, the album is ostensibly trying to make a statement about the unity of humanity. This is their lane.īut the truth is Coldplay have not been in that lane for a long time, and their latest release, Music of the Spheres, takes them even further away as they try to replicate those old feelings. The comments on their YouTube videos are about the beauty of the world around us. Direct, to-the-point, beautifully produced pop songs that can get a whole arena singing. You know the group: “Clocks”, “Yellow”, “The Scientist”, “Fix You”, “Viva La Vida”: a cadre of early Coldplay tunes that are essentially standards at this point. To these people, I usually have one retort: “You don’t like the band that wrote ‘Clocks’?” The critical generosity extended to many modern pop musicians – a turn away from the anti-sellout culture in the 1990s and 2000s – isn’t extended to Coldplay, who rose to prominence at the height of that skepticism. Too many smug music connoisseurs see Coldplay as an inoffensive, inconsequential mainstream pop act.
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