Where's Flags? :p

Where's Flags? :p

 

YEAH! Flags also deserves our attention now

Where's Flags? :p

YEAH! Flags also deserves our attention now

Good point guys!

I created the thread and added it to the recap lists here :) Thanks!

This is a very funny interview I re-watched today and I feel like they are talking about "Everyday Life" essentially.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjvmvKigmw:425

 

The thing Chris said to Annie Mac, that the title was picked 10 years earlier and the use of Mylo-sessions Arabesque for the new song make me believe that they recorded many of the new songs back then. That could explain the 100 years theme as a joke (someone said that before in this thread), that the new album has been in the works for a very long time!

 

A few minutes after they show the Arabic script in the Bakery (Peace and Love)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjvmvKigmw:479

I've watched this interview so many times back in the day and I can't believe it gives such a big clue for what was eventually coming a decade later :joy: Great find!

So hyped about this album era, these first two song are so good. I was hyped when Violet Hill came along but this maybe even surpasses that. Love the lyrics and meaning for Orphan, just wow. That uplifting vibe and then the thought behind it. Looks like this might be their best album lyrically. Love that.

I'm excited for the prospect that we might get some unreleased old stuff repurposed for this album, like "Arabesque".

I just checked out some of his stuff.

 

Holy shit. I can’t believe such a human exists.

 

Cannot wait to see what he brings to the album.

 

exactly! Just learned about him now, his most recent album is a treat. Never heard of him before, should have heheh.

Wonder why it's always on the Japanese edition that gets more songs? AFAIK only Coldplay has done that, although others deluxe albums are just everywhere (although I think GS deluxe was Target as well......)

 

Apparently in Japan it's a lot cheaper to import CDs from other countries so record labels usually put an extra bonus track or two on the Japanese version to try and encourage the people of Japan to buy that version.

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:eyes: Looks like we're getting what we asked for! This album's gonna have TEETH, y'all

Era outfits look nice.

Does anyone have a translation of that Dutch review?

It wasn't really a review though... But here you go (just used google translate so there may be mistakes)

 

 

Coldplay is back with their long-awaited new album, "Everyday Life," which will be released on November 22.

After seven successful studio albums, of which "A Head Full Of Dreams" was the last in 2015, the UK band now releases an eighth studio album.

"Everyday Life" has 16 numbers, divided into two parts of 8 numbers, "Sunrise" and "Sunset". The cover of the album dates from 1919 and is a photograph of a band of the great-grandfather of band member Johnny Buckland.

The album is, as the title suggests, a reaction to contemporary life and touches on current topics such as war, the refugee crisis, the rise of right-wing nationalism, sexism, racism, police violence, corruption and gun control.

The band started writing the album during the two-year tour following "A Head Full Of Dreams".

This tour was the fourth largest tour of all time in the world and the new album is therefore a reaction to the turbulent times the band went through and the political chaos that arose around the same period.

The 16 songs were recorded at various locations worldwide and the album was produced by "The Dream Team". Artists from different countries, including Stromae, Femi Kuti, Tiwa Savage and Jacob Collier, can also be heard on the album.

 

Coldplay wishes to convey a message of "Peace and Love" with "Everyday Life", which can also be read on the album in Arabic.

With lyrics like "I Could Be You, You Could Be Me", the band brings out a sense of togetherness, love and empathy.

It's not much.... But in this video, which was released in early 2016, you can see the Arabic writing of "Peace and Love" on the wall in their live space. It's obvious Everyday Life has been in the making for some time...

 

You'll see it at the 4:13 mark. You might have to shift the camera around a little as it's a 360 video.

 

It's not much.... But in this video, which was released in early 2016, you can see the Arabic writing of "Peace and Love" on the wall in their live space. It's obvious Everyday Life has been in the making for some time...

 

You'll see it at the 4:13 mark. You might have to shift the camera around a little as it's a 360 video.

Actually the wiring has been in the bakery since viva era. They may be using the phrase for this album, but don't think there was a direct correlation way back when.

I have a bit of a theory that the opening track, "Sunrise", might actually be an instrumental intro. Kinda like Mylo Xyloto and Life in Technicolour.

 

I also have a feeling that first promo video we got with the 15 second sound bite (22 November, 1919) might actually be Sunrise. Sounds like an album opener to me.

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:eyes: Looks like we're getting what we asked for! This album's gonna have TEETH, y'all

I feel like in a parallel universe somewhere I’m on this thread railing and moaning about how modern Coldplay are bland pop and uninspired.

 

Thankfully I’m not in that universe, We’re in the one where I got exactly what I wanted and haven’t been this optimistic about a Coldplay album in god knows how long.

I feel like in a parallel universe somewhere I’m on this thread railing and moaning about how modern Coldplay are bland pop and uninspired.

 

Thankfully I’m not in that universe, We’re in the one where I got exactly what I wanted and haven’t been this optimistic about a Coldplay album in god knows how long.

i just really hope they deliver on this one. i just finished watching the weekly best/worst tracks video by anthony fantano (theneedledrop) and he put arabesque in the best tracks of the week segment. while talking about the track he expressed a feeling that i really resonated with: while i’m super excited for a new album, 16 tracks just means more chance for them to drop some duds. i’m reaaaally hoping they just come out with a fantastic record that unites the community again and gets them good critical success. i just want them to blow me away like they used to.

It’s hard to say at this point in time but all signs are really looking good.

 

If you go back to the GS era this is exactly what people were asking for.. an experimental sound like Viva with a more indie/alternative vibe and also songs with a bit more edge and TEETH as was said above.

 

I have a feeling that after 2009, looking to the future the band sort of had a feeling that guitar and drums music was falling out of fashion.. which was true to an extent. Musically, this decade will be remembered as the EDM decade. Hence the sudden and dramatic change in sound. Chris Martin tried to reinvent Coldplay into something new, much like Bono did with U2. In a way it worked as they still filled out the stadiums, stayed in the charts and bagged themselves a new set of casual fans... much to the ire of those who loved the old stuff.

 

like U2, I hope Coldplay will grow out of that now and start going back to being themselves.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vzdgJBm74

 

I hope this one ends up in Everyday Life. It sounds like Oldplay and has a Gravity feel to it.

Honestly, I love Arabesque as much as anyone here, experimental, long, gritty, beautiful. But the more I listen to Orphans the more it grows on me, it's everything AHFOD should have been with some better mixing in there, it's such a good song honestly, and especially after watching the video it grew on me ten times more.

Honestly, I love Arabesque as much as anyone here, experimental, long, gritty, beautiful. But the more I listen to Orphans the more it grows on me, it's everything AHFOD should have been with some better mixing in there, it's such a good song honestly, and especially after watching the video it grew on me ten times more.

Couldn't agree more. Orphans is what coldplay should have done if they were after a pop feel before viva la vida

Are there already any reviews out there ?!

I don't think that article is a review. I had Google translate the page for me and it sounds more speculative than anything else. It makes assumptions about themes of the albums based on song titles and what we've got from Orphans. Usually the only reviews that drop before an album are part of some sort of sponsorship, so maybe NME drops its review 5 days before the album comes out and teases all the tracks.

 

Also, just FYI - I listened to Guy's interview on that podcast and not much gleaned. Basically he says they're excited about the new album coming out and started working on it in Tuscany in 2017 (likely after the AHFOD tour). Didn't dig into any tracks specifically or the sound or anything :(