AHFOD Reviews by Music Critics

[gai]

Coldplay have finally embraced their own goofiness and a made big dumb pop record

by Richard S. He4 December 2015

How does the biggest band in the world become underrated? RICHARD S. HE delves into Coldplay’s most playful album yet to find out.

 

It’s not easy being a mainstream rock band in 2015. Commercially, the old ideal of the rock band – four dudes making music with guitar, bass and drums – has hit an all-time low. On one end, there’s Maroon 5, shamelessly struggling for relevance, and on the other, the Foo Fighters, who couldn’t care less. Ever since the Beatles, we’ve worshipped rock bands as counterculture icons, even when they become so big they no longer have anything to rebel against. But Coldplay have never been cool, and they’re not about to start now. They’ve found a freedom in being the biggest band in the world. The haters can hate; their fans will follow them anywhere.

 

On A Head Full of Dreams, Coldplay have finally embraced their own goofiness. Where 2011’s Mylo Xyloto flirted with mainstream pop trends, Dreams goes for broke. They’re making music for people who don’t believe in guilty pleasures. This is a record with a song unironically called ‘Fun”, where “Hymn for the Weekend”, featuring Beyoncé(!), actuallyswings, where the lead single’s video casts the band as a pack of CGI apes just for the hell of it. Amazingly, most of it works.

 

“Coldplay have never been cool, and they’re not about to start now”.

 

Ever since Coldplay broke out of their initial sensitive singer-songwriter mold, Chris Martin’s felt like a weak link. He’s the band’s only recognisable member, but he’s not enough of a rockstar. Bono’s messianic; Chris Martin’s an everyman. The rest of the band is just as egoless. So how do a bunch of introverts make hits that sound like 2015? Why not outsource the album’s production to Stargate, the Norwegians behind Rihanna’s “Diamonds” and Katy Perry’s “Firework”? In a way, Coldplay have inverted Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. There, two dance producers made a quiet, introspective disco record with a live band; on A Head Full of Dreams, Coldplay have made a grand, synth-heavy pop album with outside producers. They’ve become less and less about the instruments, and more about the vision behind them.

 

 

Rumours suggested A Head Full of Dreams might be Coldplay’s final album, but Chris Martin’s reframed it more as the end of the band’s first era; what their last six albums have been building towards. You’d expect it to be some pretentious, preachy record – yet it’s anything but. Dreams is the closest thing pop’s had to an easy-listening new age record since Enya. Coldplay should really be soundtracking Disney movies and covering ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’. Which could be a bad thing, were it not so meticulously crafted.

 

“It’s closest thing pop’s had to an easy-listening new age record since Enya”

 

Wonder is an easily mockable emotion, but Chris Martin’s lyrics and limited vocal range don’t carry the songs – the production does. ‘Adventure of a Lifetime”s chorus doesn’t belong to him; Jonny Buckland’s instantly memorable lead guitar owns it. Coldplay have nothing especially profound to say, but they have more ways than ever to say it A Head Full of Dreams is Coldplay’s least serious album to date. They’ve found maturity by making a big dumb pop record, by regressing away from heartbreak toward a childlike innocence.

 

After 15 years on top, with no lineup changes and relatively few creative dips, Dreams is their victory lap. That’s longer than the lifespan of many classic bands. Culturally, they’ve outlasted all of their cooler peers – Muse, The Killers, The Strokes. Every criticism that’s been thrown at them was true… a decade ago. To paraphrase Steven Hyden, the people who call Coldplay boring are more boring than the band itself. How does the biggest band in the world become underrated? Now’s as good a time as any to find out.

 

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[getithom]

Never seen so many average reviews for a Coldplay album. There ain't much polarisation here - it's slap bang in the middle average.

 

http://www.metacritic.com/music/a-head-full-of-dreams/coldplay

 

I guess that's what you get when you hire a production team who have no respect for organic, original guitar based music. And don't think Rik Simpson is getting away from this. If he mixed this album (which a lot of people say) then it's an appalling mix. Such a massive disrespect for guitar by trying to drown it underneath all that intrusive and unwelcome electronic beats and rhythm.

 

Holy crap. Can we get over this worshipping of a guitar? I love it just as much as anyone else, but more guitar does not equate to instant success. Regardless of the artist, it seems to be a pretty universal thing that Metacritic is not something you should take seriously. I totally understand you not liking the album, but there are plenty of us here and elsewhere who actually like it a lot.

[gai]

billboard: 3.5/5

 

Coldplay Creeps Onto the Dancefloor With ‘A Head Full of Dreams’: Album Review

12/4/2015 by Jody Rosen

 

Coldplay

A Head Full of Dreams

Album Review

 

3.5

Sooner or later, every goliath of modern stadium rock hears the siren call of the discotheque. U2, Radiohead, Arcade Fire -- all have striven to goose their sincerity with syncopation, to inject more fun, more funk, into their big, regal, high-minded songs. Now it's Coldplay's turn. On the band's seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, Chris Martin and company nervously creep onto the dancefloor, like boys at a junior high school prom, determined to unleash the boogie, white man's overbite be damned. Thus "Adventure of a Lifetime," the first single, which puts a classic disco beat -- percolating bassline, hissing high-hat, hand claps -- behind Martin's tremulous falsetto. The song's sentiments are pure Coldplay. "We are diamonds taking shape," sings Martin. "Everything you want's a dream away."

 

Coldplay Debuts Happy-Hour-Perfect 'Hymn for the Weekend,' Feat. Beyoncé: Listen

 

Martin told an interviewer that the group wanted to make an uplifting album that would prompt fans to "shuffle [their] feet." Listeners familiar with Coldplay might ask if the band has ever made a record that doesn't aim to uplift. For nearly a decade and a half, Coldplay has been the global standard-bearer of Inspiration Rock. Even on Ghost Stories, the moderately downcast 2014 album released in the wake of Martin's marital breakup, the music chimed grandly, and the lyrics tilted in the direction of bombast and bromides. In Coldplay's world, we all have wings, and the band provides the wind.

 

As for feet-shuffling, that's where collaborators come in. On A Head Full of Dreams, the band teams with Stargate, aka Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, who share production duties with longtime Coldplay comrade Rik Simpson on all but one song. There are other boldface names in the credits: Tove Lo, Noel Gallagher and, well, President Barack Obama, whose sampled rendition of "Amazing Grace" can be heard amid a wash of piano and ;synths on the vague songlet called "Kaleidoscope." Then there's the Queen of America, Beyoncé, who provides backing vocals on three songs, including the album's grooviest, "Hymn for the Weekend," which sounds an awful lot like Coldplay's answer to "Drunk in Love." ("I'm feeling drunk and high/So high, so high/Then we'll shoot across the sky," exults Martin.)

 

Coldplay Teases New Album With Spacey, Cryptic Video

 

The decision to work with Stargate was a shrewd one. The Norwegian songwriting-production duo is among the world's best at blending the flavors of R&B and bubble-gum pop. More than any previous Coldplay release, A Head Full of Dreams sounds like a pop record; the band has never been catchier. That's especially true when the tempos are brisk, in tracks like "Hymn for the Weekend" and "Birds," whose ringing guitars and thumping bass might please fans of The Cure. Of course, the songs are still big, with the peeling guitars and crescendos in which Coldplay always has specialized. But Stargate finds new ways to ornament the anthems with hooks, beats, samples and effects. Martin and Coldplay haven't exactly reined in their excesses, but they've given them new shape and weight. They've put some ballast in their ballads.

 

Which hasn't stopped Martin from doing what comes naturally: singing corny drivel. The lyrics are full of miracles and angels and soaring eagles, and "philosophy" along the lines of "Life has a beautiful crazy design." Coldplay has hinted that A Head Full of Dreams might be its last album. If that's true, it's a fitting swan song, a reminder the act has been a band of and for our time, proffering heroic psychobabble. The record closes with "Up and Up," which marshals a hip-hop beat and gospel-style chorales to drive home a pep-talk banality: "When you think you've had enough/Don't ever give up." It's not exactly new advice, maybe not even good advice, but it's a message that millions want to hear. And, lo and behold, you can dance to it.

 

billboard

[NativeGirl]

Let's be honest here, we all love Coldplay. But this isn't their best album. I hate to say it (I love them so much!). They do have a few good songs on the album but it's not anything special.

 

This album is just not them. It's not even them evolving. For the most part it sounds like they threw together some songs they've scrapped from Ghost Stories and MX and put on AHFOD. This album doesn't have much of a theme or soul either. Half of it is just a shrine to the Carter family. And the other half is all about Chris and his love for R&B music. Which makes me think where are the other band mates family and friends on this album?

 

I hate to think of this to be their final album for a while.

[gai]

the sun rated it 4/5

with exclusive interview

[Tarkovsky2]

Coldplay have finally embraced their own goofiness and a made big dumb pop record

by Richard S. He4 December 2015

How does the biggest band in the world become underrated? RICHARD S. HE delves into Coldplay’s most playful album yet to find out.

 

It’s not easy being a mainstream rock band in 2015. Commercially, the old ideal of the rock band – four dudes making music with guitar, bass and drums – has hit an all-time low. On one end, there’s Maroon 5, shamelessly struggling for relevance, and on the other, the Foo Fighters, who couldn’t care less. Ever since the Beatles, we’ve worshipped rock bands as counterculture icons, even when they become so big they no longer have anything to rebel against. But Coldplay have never been cool, and they’re not about to start now. They’ve found a freedom in being the biggest band in the world. The haters can hate; their fans will follow them anywhere.

 

On A Head Full of Dreams, Coldplay have finally embraced their own goofiness. Where 2011’s Mylo Xyloto flirted with mainstream pop trends, Dreams goes for broke. They’re making music for people who don’t believe in guilty pleasures. This is a record with a song unironically called ‘Fun”, where “Hymn for the Weekend”, featuring Beyoncé(!), actuallyswings, where the lead single’s video casts the band as a pack of CGI apes just for the hell of it. Amazingly, most of it works.

 

“Coldplay have never been cool, and they’re not about to start now”.

 

Ever since Coldplay broke out of their initial sensitive singer-songwriter mold, Chris Martin’s felt like a weak link. He’s the band’s only recognisable member, but he’s not enough of a rockstar. Bono’s messianic; Chris Martin’s an everyman. The rest of the band is just as egoless. So how do a bunch of introverts make hits that sound like 2015? Why not outsource the album’s production to Stargate, the Norwegians behind Rihanna’s “Diamonds” and Katy Perry’s “Firework”? In a way, Coldplay have inverted Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories. There, two dance producers made a quiet, introspective disco record with a live band; on A Head Full of Dreams, Coldplay have made a grand, synth-heavy pop album with outside producers. They’ve become less and less about the instruments, and more about the vision behind them.

 

 

Rumours suggested A Head Full of Dreams might be Coldplay’s final album, but Chris Martin’s reframed it more as the end of the band’s first era; what their last six albums have been building towards. You’d expect it to be some pretentious, preachy record – yet it’s anything but. Dreams is the closest thing pop’s had to an easy-listening new age record since Enya. Coldplay should really be soundtracking Disney movies and covering ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’. Which could be a bad thing, were it not so meticulously crafted.

 

“It’s closest thing pop’s had to an easy-listening new age record since Enya”

 

Wonder is an easily mockable emotion, but Chris Martin’s lyrics and limited vocal range don’t carry the songs – the production does. ‘Adventure of a Lifetime”s chorus doesn’t belong to him; Jonny Buckland’s instantly memorable lead guitar owns it. Coldplay have nothing especially profound to say, but they have more ways than ever to say it A Head Full of Dreams is Coldplay’s least serious album to date. They’ve found maturity by making a big dumb pop record, by regressing away from heartbreak toward a childlike innocence.

 

After 15 years on top, with no lineup changes and relatively few creative dips, Dreams is their victory lap. That’s longer than the lifespan of many classic bands. Culturally, they’ve outlasted all of their cooler peers – Muse, The Killers, The Strokes. Every criticism that’s been thrown at them was true… a decade ago. To paraphrase Steven Hyden, the people who call Coldplay boring are more boring than the band itself. How does the biggest band in the world become underrated? Now’s as good a time as any to find out.

 

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THIS IS THE BEST REVIEW POSSIBLE. FOR ME THIS IS THE TRUTH

[EasySuperstition99]

THIS IS THE BEST REVIEW POSSIBLE. FOR ME THIS IS THE TRUTH

I like this review because the guy isn't bashing them but he isn't completely bashing then either lol

[Tarkovsky2]

I like this review because the guy isn't bashing them but he isn't completely bashing then either lol

 

It's so true, to me at least. It is a pop record that has a childlike innocence to it. Nothing less, nothing more.

[Tarkovsky2]

The comparioson between Coldplay and Radiohead is absurd to me. Two completely different world, and always were.

[EasySuperstition99]

The comparioson between Coldplay and Radiohead is absurd to me. Two completely different world, and always were.

Exactly! They say Parachutes sounds like The Bends, when in fact that is definitely NOT true.

[stephen]

Review: Coldplay's new album is better than your dad-rock jokes

The Verge

By Jamieson Cox; December 4, 2015

 

 

Coldplay has been one of the most popular bands in the world for 15 years, an observation that seems banal until you realize almost none of their contemporaries can make that claim. More exciting and innovative bands have come and gone; Coldplay remains, distilling complex sounds into more palatable, sentimental packages. You can call Chris Martin & co. hokey, watered-down, and cynical — and God knows people have — but you can’t accuse them of not trying: every new Coldplay album takes risks, tries to push the band’s sound in a different direction. It leads to an interesting contradiction: a band that’s the musical equivalent of Ikea is also daring and creatively restless.

 

The foundations of every Coldplay record are Martin’s earnest bleat and a radiant, irrepressible optimism regarding life and the people in it. The guy will always get the girl (or the guy, if that’s what he wants); they’ll heal each other’s broken hearts and mend each other’s wounds; their love will win over the doubters, transcend borders and barriers, even cheat death. It’s the quality that leads people to characterize Martin as a gregarious doofus, but it’s also his greatest strength. The rediscovery of that optimism after a few years in the wilderness is what makes A Head Full of Dreams, the band’s newest LP and seventh overall, a worthwhile experience. Slashing through the weeds of his personal life has only strengthened Martin’s resolve regarding the planet’s fundamental goodness.

 

 

You can hear his doubt on Ghost Stories, the full-length released last year that constitutes the band’s creative and commercial low point. Written in the wake of Martin’s much-ridiculed "conscious uncoupling" with Gwyneth Paltrow, the album is downcast, deliberately morose, and stuffed with lyrical clunkers. Shades of James Blake and Bon Iver hung over the record like specters, but the music lacked their finesse and tunefulness. A Head Full of Dreams brings color and joy back into the band’s composition, and producers Rik Simpson and Stargate — the same Norwegian wizards behind Beyoncé’s "Irreplaceable" and a handful of Rihanna hits, among others — have rendered every instrument luminous.

 

It’s remarkable how far Coldplay have moved from the Radiohead and Oasis ripoffs that vaulted their 2000 debut Parachutes into the public consciousness, though A Head Full of Dreamssounds less like Drake, DJ Snake, and Lil Jon than Martin would have you believe. It’s been a decade since describing them as a "rock band" made sense; they probably left that phrase behind when they called in Brian Eno to refine the curious art-pop on 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. The underrated Mylo Xyloto had more in common with the chirpy, synth-laden alt-pop of Passion Pit and M83 than anything on rock radio.

 

This new album cribs from disco on its best tracks — the title track and single "Adventure of a Lifetime" could both use extended mixes post-haste — and hip-hop and R&B elsewhere. There are nods toward the drunken, grayscale pop of Sia and Tove Lo; the latter lends a helping hand on the wistful "Fun." (I tweeted yesterday that this album sounds like Arcade Fire’s Reflektor "if Reflektor was actually good"; that sounds like unrepentant trolling, but I truly believe it.)

 

MARTIN'S FEELING HIMSELF A BIT TOO MUCH IN SPOTS

 

There are moments on this album where the band’s ambition — and Martin’s confidence — lead them into hubristic mistakes. (To put it another way, Martin is feeling himself a bit too much in spots.) Interlude "Kaleidoscope" uses poet Coleman Barks and a sample of President Obama to link the universal and the personal; it’s pretty but incongruous. The haunted R&B of hidden track "X Marks the Spot" would’ve been dated around Mylo Xyloto’s release, meaning it stinks like sour milk on an album being released in 2015. And securing a contribution from Beyoncé on "Hymn for the Weekend" only to relegate her to wispy background duty is either a shameful waste of resources or a borderline felony.

 

All of that is true, and yet this album’s central message — you can find happiness again after suffering through devastating personal trauma — is both generous and hugely appealing. Paltrow contributes backing vocals to "Everglow," a serene ballad about recognizing the beauty and value in a part of your life you’ve left behind; her presence on the song, and implicit endorsement of that sentiment, feels more impactful than every bit of gleeful schadenfreude the media indulged in during their split. (In a purely musical sense, the quality of Ghost Stories is argument enough for Martin’s happiness.)

 

HE'S A HANDSOME, WEALTHY POPULIST WITH FAMOUS PALS

 

Martin explained the thought process behind "Everglow" to Zane Lowe by talking about a day spent in the ocean with a surfer, from whom he nicked the word; he even put on a dumb surfer voice. It was a moment that explains a lot of the vitriol directed at Martin and his band. He’s a handsome, wealthy populist with a ton of famous friends, and he makes music that boils down other people’s innovation into sweeter syrup. It’s a lot easier to believe the world is an innately positive place when you’re handsome, wealthy, and famous. It’s also easy to lose your sense of curiosity, which Martin stubbornly refuses to do. A Head Full of Dreams is experimental in its own sweet way, and it’s genuinely uplifting. If you still think this band is cynical, you haven’t been paying attention.

[gai]

the much awaited rolling stone review is here!! 4/5 *s

 

A Head Full of Dreams

 

BY JON DOLAN December 4, 2015

 

Beyoncé, Noel and Gwyneth help Chris Martin shake out the sads

Coldplay's last album, 2014's Ghost Stories, was a surprisingly dark and muted set released just months after Chris Martin's split with Gwyneth Paltrow. A year and a half later, the frown has been turned upside down. A Head Full of Dreams, produced by Norwegian hitmakers Stargate, might be Coldplay's brightest album ever – an eagle's-wings whoosh of soaring melodies, happy dance beats and Martin at his most wide-eyed. "There are miracles at work," he sings on the album-opening title anthem, which sounds like U2 and New Order on a joint humanitarian mission.

 

Coldplay flex their coalition-building strength by bringing together Beyoncé's backing vocals and Noel Gallagher's heroic guitar on the gingerly optimistic "Up&Up." Bey also appears amid chirping birds on the R&B-touched "Hymn for the Weekend." The LP's healing mood is made personal when Paltrow herself adds some vocals to the warm farewell, "Everglow," on which Martin compares his ex to a diamond, a lion and an eagle. He's hinted that this could be Coldplay's last album; if so, they're going out on a sustained note of grace.

 

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[EasySuperstition99]

the much awaited rolling stone review is here!! 4/5 *s

 

A Head Full of Dreams

 

BY JON DOLAN December 4, 2015

 

Beyoncé, Noel and Gwyneth help Chris Martin shake out the sads

Coldplay's last album, 2014's Ghost Stories, was a surprisingly dark and muted set released just months after Chris Martin's split with Gwyneth Paltrow. A year and a half later, the frown has been turned upside down. A Head Full of Dreams, produced by Norwegian hitmakers Stargate, might be Coldplay's brightest album ever – an eagle's-wings whoosh of soaring melodies, happy dance beats and Martin at his most wide-eyed. "There are miracles at work," he sings on the album-opening title anthem, which sounds like U2 and New Order on a joint humanitarian mission.

 

Coldplay flex their coalition-building strength by bringing together Beyoncé's backing vocals and Noel Gallagher's heroic guitar on the gingerly optimistic "Up&Up." Bey also appears amid chirping birds on the R&B-touched "Hymn for the Weekend." The LP's healing mood is made personal when Paltrow herself adds some vocals to the warm farewell, "Everglow," on which Martin compares his ex to a diamond, a lion and an eagle. He's hinted that this could be Coldplay's last album; if so, they're going out on a sustained note of grace.

 

x

Rolling Stone gave it a 4/5 or 8/10? I'm happy. They're the only reviewers I actually listen to, other than NME, and Metacritic.

[Jaytheblue]

Rolling Stone gave it a 4/5 or 8/10? I'm happy. They're the only reviewers I actually listen to, other than NME, and Metacritic.

Yeah actually not bad, not bad at all

[getithom]

the much awaited rolling stone review is here!! 4/5 *s

 

A Head Full of Dreams

 

BY JON DOLAN December 4, 2015

 

Beyoncé, Noel and Gwyneth help Chris Martin shake out the sads

Coldplay's last album, 2014's Ghost Stories, was a surprisingly dark and muted set released just months after Chris Martin's split with Gwyneth Paltrow. A year and a half later, the frown has been turned upside down. A Head Full of Dreams, produced by Norwegian hitmakers Stargate, might be Coldplay's brightest album ever – an eagle's-wings whoosh of soaring melodies, happy dance beats and Martin at his most wide-eyed. "There are miracles at work," he sings on the album-opening title anthem, which sounds like U2 and New Order on a joint humanitarian mission.

 

Coldplay flex their coalition-building strength by bringing together Beyoncé's backing vocals and Noel Gallagher's heroic guitar on the gingerly optimistic "Up&Up." Bey also appears amid chirping birds on the R&B-touched "Hymn for the Weekend." The LP's healing mood is made personal when Paltrow herself adds some vocals to the warm farewell, "Everglow," on which Martin compares his ex to a diamond, a lion and an eagle. He's hinted that this could be Coldplay's last album; if so, they're going out on a sustained note of grace.

 

x

 

This is the best-reviewed Coldplay album by Rolling Stone since A Rush of Blood to the Head. Hell yeah.

[gai]

a positive review from huffpo:

 

 

A Head Full of Dreams begins with the self-titled track that encapsulates the excitement Coldplay experienced putting this album together. An infectious guitar riff is only partially eclipsed by Chris Martin's smooth vocals as the song roars on, high tempo and unrelenting. The title, "A Head Full of Dreams," references the dream-like fantasy Coldplay is attempting to impart upon us throughout their seventh studio album, released on December 4, 2015.

 

Boasting 11 tracks and clocking-in at just over 45 minutes, A Head Full of Dreamspacks a punch. Guitarist Jonny Buckland called A Head Full of Dreams "night to the day" in comparison to 2014's Ghost Stories. Ghost Stories was released on the cusp of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's "conscious uncoupling," and the themes and sounds explored on the album were definitively the band's deepest and darkest on their discography. But on A Head Full of Dreams, not only are the music and lyrics brighter and more colorful, but the outside talent employed to help paint this picture are natural additions. Beyoncé, Tove Lo, and Barack Obama are just some of the influences brought onto this album.

 

"Hymn for the Weekend" features a nonchalant (and uncredited) Beyoncé backing vocal. The level of depth added to the vocals on this track from Beyoncé is virtually indescribable -- in many ways, the harmonies on this song are reminiscent of the Rihanna feature on "Princess of China" from 2011's Mylo Xyloto, and in others, this song is stylistically more of a Beyoncé song than a Coldplay one. In the last quarter of the song, Chris Martin effectively takes the back seat, all while Beyoncé floats atop the guitar and percussion crescendos and fades out angelically. "Hymn for the Weekend" is a song that shines limelight on the creative strides the band has taken from their earlier albums.

 

The broken-down, sentimental side of the band that was so prominent in Ghost Stories carried over into a couple tracks on A Head Full of Stars. "Everglow," the second single released from the album, highlights the sort of melancholy that we were last left with in 2014. But the track-to-track creative transitioning that Coldplay employed on Mylo Xyloto remains a distinguishing characteristic of A Head Full of Dreams -- after "Everglow," "Adventure of a Lifetime" serves as a stark juxtaposition. The first single from the album, "Adventure of a Lifetime" also functioned as Coldplay's album announcement upon its release in early November. "Adventure of a Lifetime"'s

features Coldplay as chimpanzees who learn to play music, a scene as harmlessly nonsensical as the giddiness the high-pitched guitar riff throughout the track makes you feel.

 

"Fun" paints an uplifting, airy scene bolstered by the beautifully-meshed duet with Swedish pop singer Tove Lo. Distant, distorted guitar introduces Chris Martin's vocals, and he makes his crooning seem effortless. Tove Lo's voice weaves seamlessly with Chris Martin's, as they innocently ask one another, "Didn't we have fun?" An equally immersive experience, "Army of One" makes great use of synthesized organs for backing, and at a quick 3:30, it leaves its mark without you even realizing it.

 

A Head Full of Stars is an important album for Coldplay. After the dramatic creative shift on Ghost Stories, this new release proves that the band is back. They've released worldwide tour dates already in support of A Head Full of Stars, and with the announcement that they will be playing the Super Bowl halftime show, this album will be heard by a lot of people that might have not picked up the album on their own. And that's a good thing. A Head Full of Stars is a triumphant reclaiming of a throne Coldplay so fundamentally deserves. Welcome back.

 

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[Jaytheblue]

Yeah so positive they call it 'A Head Full of Stars'

[gai]

Yeah so positive they call it 'A Head Full of Stars'

hahaa! i didn't see that. just skimmed through

[Durk]

Pitchfork is a joke.

They would give a Thom Yorke fart 9.8

[Cold003]

Pitchfork is a joke.

They would give a Thom Yorke fart 9.8

They gived AROBTTH 5.1

Mylo got 7 o_O

 

Dafaq !

[jer123]

They gived AROBTTH 5.1

Mylo got 7 o_O

 

Dafaq !

Facepalm

[Jedi Leo]

It's so true, to me at least. It is a pop record that has a childlike innocence to it. Nothing less, nothing more.

 

Coldplay have a true childlike vibe to them, all four of them actually. I always thought so and one of the reason I love them. And yes they have embraced their inner hippy-ness hehe (Chris keeps apologising for it in the interviews LOL) and I for one dont mind, being somewhat hippy myself I guess :P

[I ran away]

Pitchfork also rated my favourite album X&Y really badly, I don't care about them...

[Guest kmm1482]

Pitchfork is a joke.

They would give a Thom Yorke fart 9.8

 

You sure about that? http://m.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19894-thom-yorke-tomorrows-modern-boxes/

[Littledoggie115]

You sure about that? http://m.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19894-thom-yorke-tomorrows-modern-boxes/

tomorrows modern boxes was a digital album anounced and released on the same day, it was used by thom to test "torrent selling" i think, is not even a proper album but it got better ratings then half of coldplay albums

 

(sorry for the terrible english)