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Record CollectorNov 4, 2024Lyrics apart, the opening title track features lush orchestration and twinkling piano used to nice effect throughout. [Dec 2024, p.106]
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MojoOct 21, 2024Too much of this sounds like recycled plastic pop. [Dec 2024 p.84]
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Oct 11, 2024We Pray and Good Feelings are particularly pleasurable. But, as on Music of the Spheres (2021), Max Martin’s anaemic production saps the weaker tracks: oodles of generic playlist pop that, apart from the piano ballads, reduce the band’s excellent players to decorative accessories.
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Oct 9, 2024That unpredictable quality control makes Coldplay frustrating to defend or dismiss—for every questionable choice, there’s a 6-minute nu-jazz vamp or classical prog-pop opus waiting around the corner.
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Oct 3, 2024It does feel like a b-sides, here's-what's-left collection at times, for better or worse. However, for fans clamoring for more of anything from Berryman, Buckland, Champion, and Martin, this'll do the trick.
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Oct 3, 2024Any hint of Coldplay ever having had rock inclinations has been blasted away in a blaze of pop hooks. There is little of the fragile intimacy of 2000 debut Parachutes, none of the rock angst of 2002’s Rush of Blood to the Head or the epic grandeur of 2005’s X&Y. It is the upbeat, poppy Coldplay honed to a gleaming EDM point.
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Oct 2, 2024The truth is that love is not enough to conquer all of the polyvalent ills that humanity faces – and Coldplay’s weakness is in not doing justice to that complexity. But that naivety and stubborn optimism remains intoxicating, and it’s also their greatest strength.