Coldplay Streams a Song a Day Through iTunes
Coldplay is about to release their hotly anticipated album with the stupid name Mylo Xyloto. I have been listening to the album recently and it sounds like a watered down version of Biffy Clyro's Only Revolutions.
The album seems too grandiose to me using a lot of sweeping strings, electronic backbeats, and airy Chris Martin vocals. The song released for streaming, Paradise, has a lot of similar elements that are carried out through the album.
Part of what appealed to me with Coldplay was the use of piano and their obvious ear for pop sensibility. After the album X&Y, the band seemed to believe their own hype and had this incessant need to push themselves as artists by bringing in new elements and instruments. This can be done to great effect (see U2), but Coldplay has almost stagnated. This album doesn't have that Fix You song, which is probably the best song anyone has written in the past 10 years. The power, emotion in the lyrics is directly felt and heard in the music. It's a wonderfully, dynamic song.
But Mylo Xyloto seems to be B-tracks from Viva La Vida and Death and All His Friends meets U2's No Line on the Horizon (song called Major Minus), which we all know sucks. Major Minus also has an Achtung Baby Edge like guitar sound at the end of it to complete the U2 sound.
The album seems too grandiose to me using a lot of sweeping strings, electronic backbeats, and airy Chris Martin vocals. The song released for streaming, Paradise, has a lot of similar elements that are carried out through the album.
Part of what appealed to me with Coldplay was the use of piano and their obvious ear for pop sensibility. After the album X&Y, the band seemed to believe their own hype and had this incessant need to push themselves as artists by bringing in new elements and instruments. This can be done to great effect (see U2), but Coldplay has almost stagnated. This album doesn't have that Fix You song, which is probably the best song anyone has written in the past 10 years. The power, emotion in the lyrics is directly felt and heard in the music. It's a wonderfully, dynamic song.
But Mylo Xyloto seems to be B-tracks from Viva La Vida and Death and All His Friends meets U2's No Line on the Horizon (song called Major Minus), which we all know sucks. Major Minus also has an Achtung Baby Edge like guitar sound at the end of it to complete the U2 sound.
To quote Tom Petty "Their AR man said I don't hear a single." Nothing really stands out against this sonic backdrop. And to make things stranger, the album is a concept album about two people, Mylo and Xyloto, "meeting in a modern urban environment." Martin is quoted as saying the album was inspired by The Wire, but I don't see the concept and I don't know if I have fully grasped the record.
The album officially comes out on October 26, 2011 and it might take me until then to really deconstruct this album. The one song I have liked is Princess of China featuring Rihanna, but everything she touches these days turns to gold. And I'd love to make a passing resemblance to a Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate all over her vagina.
This week you can follow the lead up to the album release on iTunes and hear selected tracks each day. Streaming here, album preorder here, album artwork below:
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