"Music of the Spheres" sent me running back to their early masterworks - albums like "A Rush of Blood to the Head" and "Viva la Vida." For those LPs, Martin and the band employed their incredible talent for lyrics and melody to more powerful effect, grappling not just with the buoyancy of the light, but the desperation that lives inside the darkness of the soul. To put it more simply: Coldplay's lost their way. I'm just not sure that they belong on the same LP. "Coloratura" and "Humankind" are truly wonderful songs. But what "Coloratura" really points out, aside from the band's boundless capacity for mimicry, is their lack of any salient vision. It's a knowing nod, to be sure, from Coldplay to one of their principal influences. The song's chorus even conjures up the sound, if not the structure of Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage," the penultimate "Dark Side of the Moon" number. ![]() Similar levels of majesty are in evidence on "Coloratura," the 10-minute opus that closes out the LP. RELATED: Coldplay attacks social and political unrest with hope on "Everyday Life" Singing along, duet-style, with a falsetto, vocoder-rendered version of himself, Martin gently coos, "when you love me, love me, love me" to some space alien other, and all is right with the world. The same could be said for the band's latest chart-topper "My Universe," featuring K-Pop sensation BTS.Īnd then there's "Biutyful," which should have come off like the worse kind of schmaltz, only to turn out to be genuinely tender and charming. I can already imagine the laser-driven pyrotechnics that will accompany their performance of "Humankind" during next summer's stadium tour. Brimming with unquenched optimism, "Humankind" stands with Coldplay's finest anthems - songs like "A Sky Full of Stars" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall." Tunes like "Humankind" soar in the very same arena-friendly fashion that we've come to expect from Chris Martin and the boys over the years. That's not to say that there aren't some winning songs on Coldplay's new LP. But this isn't "Dark Side of the Moon" or " The Wall." To be candid, "Music of the Spheres" is an unholy mess of a record, confusing and conflating generic impulses towards synth-pop, ambient sound, and electronica, among other stylistic pretensions. swing the ship around, not the other way round.Coldplay's ninth studio album "Music of the Spheres" acts as a paean of sorts to space rock, the hypnotic, often distorted sound most commonly associated with Pink Floyd. too much exotic fantasy fulfillment is bad for humans. but insuppose in this case, eating you would be a slightly different experience. the sirens of legend that sing to draw in lonely sailors and eat them when they inevitably crash on shore. the idea is to call news like you to swing space like the mermaids of old. signage, maybe, but vague and usually misleading as it's intended to be. are there like entry gates, advertisement or signage?" person 1: "fuckin green idiot. but I don't see anything remotely like an orgy. maybe that's your thing? you like to watch, new guy?" person 2: "I'm watching swinging space in screen from afar right now. unless you wanna be in an multiple species super space orgy, you needn't go near. Person 1: "ye be warned to steer clear of swinging space, they do not want trouble nor will they tolerate it from anyone. causing that space time to sort of dislodge itself as a cloud like ethereal region of ever changing physics and locations within its controlled boarders. swing space is unholy abomination that mustve been a side effect of a star going supernova next to a black hole encroaching on the nearby affected area of explosion. maybe you go first and send us back results if you can. no tests yet have been made to solve this galactic mystery, akin to the Bermuda Triangle of Earth. ![]() it's only theoretically possible to do so, and we don't know what would legitimately happen to a human or any matter that enters there. effects may vary, do not cross into the boarders of swing space. back and forth it goes, changing at will within the recorded swing. it moves ethereal like in a repeated pattern, occupying shared time-space with what we call subspace. A strange area in space where laws of physics change in what is described as a swing.
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