July 20, 20215 yr My impression of the teaser! Putting spoiler tag in case folks don't want to know more about it. Spoiler Impressions: 1. MX 2? A lot of people predicted this and it seems to be mostly accurate. Lots of electronics mixed with bright sounding instruments but also some slow spacey tracks. 2. Production is CRISP. It seems these songs are super cleanly produced, but in a way that doesn't feel like it takes away from the instrumentation. Vocals are super clean too. Must be Max Martin's magic! 3. Interludes?? This can either be good or bad. I love how interludes are palate cleansers and ambient moments that are really pretty. But also, I don't want any tracks like Color Spectrum, which just repeat sounds, nor do I want the interludes to be 30 seconds long. 4. Space/Alien theme is likely super light. With the track listing leaked, I find Chris's whole "we're writing music about aliens so we can say thing about humans without talking about earth" kind of odd, because "Human" and "Earth" and "People" all are part of the tracks... Don't get me wrong, the planets and space theme is cool, but clearly the music has little/nothing to do with actual space. It's likely going to be a collection of long songs start to finish. We'll see when final lyrics drop. 5. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!?? YES!!!!! 6. MUSE? Maybe a big no. I hope the longer song is more dynamic, but right now this teaser sounds like it was built for a Home Depot commercial. I don't mind fuzzy rock in the style of Muse, but it's also not my fave rock genre and often times the repetitive bass riffs are kind of cloying. It just reeks of "here's our 'hard' rock song for all you 'rock' fans out there." but time will tell. 7 Lush instrumentation!? YES!! The closing track, the weird alien voice track and a few others stand out to me for having some really nice acoustic guitars, pianos, and strings built into the mix which sound super professional and classy. Everyday Life was a classy sounding album and that sounds like it will carry over here. 8. Vol 1 ??? I mean, this is the best thing to hear ever. It makes me think the band is enjoying making music with diverse artists and writing lots of new songs that they want to throw out. Maybe this era will last too long and maybe it will have some tracks that are duds, but I prefer the maximal 'release a ton of music' approach compared to releasing 9-10 tracks every 3 years.
July 20, 20215 yr Anyone else thought that on Friday we are getting 10 minutes and 18 seconds of new music... That's almost like 3 Higher Powers in length. ?
July 20, 20215 yr According to genius Coloratura is the song where Chris sings the "In this crazy world". Cant trust genius though. Humankind is probably single material.
July 20, 20215 yr 4 minutes ago, CP-EST said: Anyone else thought that on Friday we are getting 10 minutes and 18 seconds of new music... That's almost like 3 Higher Powers in length. ? Maybe that's the trick, they will put the 3 Higher Power alternative versions/remixes one after another ? Edited July 20, 20215 yr by eddmen
July 20, 20215 yr 8 minutes ago, AdamGraney said: Interesting just found this on a different website selling the Vinyl "Launched alongside the album announcement is Overtura (Music Of The Spheres Album Trailer) a spectacular audio-visual journey through the album’s planetary artwork with short clips of the album’s twelve tracks. This is followed on Friday 23 July, by the release of the album closer Coloratura – not a “single”, but an epic, 10-minute+ piano-led anthem!" can you share a link please?
July 20, 20215 yr Wow Colotura is gonna have a lot on it's plate! That's nearly a quarter of the album's run time, so it has a lot riding on it being good. Based on the snippets tho, it sounds absolutely incredible, almost like something Elton John would do but then with some epic Daft-Punk-Random-Access-Memories style spacey orchestral instrumentation. SO EXCITED TO HEAR IT
July 20, 20215 yr Mosts live performances of Up&Up amounted to 8-9 minutes, so a 10 minute prog track doesn't feel so far off. ? Also, could People of the Pride be POTP off Everyday Life?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
July 20, 20215 yr 2 minutes ago, Captain Crieff said: can you share a link please? Here is where I saw it originally https://www.crashrecords.co.uk/products/coldplay-music-of-the-spheres-pre-order However iv noticed it now in a couple of shops - it seems to be the description sent to all the independent record stores.
July 20, 20215 yr 7 minutes ago, MosesTheMarshmallow said: Mosts live performances of Up&Up amounted to 8-9 minutes, so a 10 minute prog track doesn't feel so far off. ? Also, could People of the Pride be POTP off Everyday Life?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! But isn't that one called Power of the people?
July 20, 20215 yr 6 minutes ago, MosesTheMarshmallow said: Mosts live performances of Up&Up amounted to 8-9 minutes, so a 10 minute prog track doesn't feel so far off. ? Also, could People of the Pride be POTP off Everyday Life?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! No, that was Power of the People....part of the lyrics itself But yeah I also had the exact same thought??
July 20, 20215 yr ♾=Life Is Beautiful? From the trailer it does not spell that, so maybe LIB song title changed? it looks like it spells Infinite Life! Edited July 20, 20215 yr by IcebatofvalikinRRBZ8
July 20, 20215 yr 1 minute ago, IcebatofvalikinRRBZ8 said: ♾=Life Is Beautiful? From the trailer it does not spell that, so maybe LIB song title changed? I think they renamed Life is Beautiful to "Humankind". Song 3, the intro sounds way too much like LiB
July 20, 20215 yr 1 minute ago, IcebatofvalikinRRBZ8 said: ♾=Life Is Beautiful? From the trailer it does not spell that, so maybe LIB song title changed? Are we sure that song will be on the album?
July 20, 20215 yr 7 minutes ago, Famous_Old_Painter said: Are we sure that song will be on the album? I think LIB is actually Humankind
July 20, 20215 yr The album trailer sounds amazing, but I really dislike that album cover ? I was hoping this background to be the album cover ? https://www.instagram.com/p/COTL6H1BWDy/?utm_medium=copy_link
July 20, 20215 yr 15 minutes ago, Everyday life said: Is there any collaborations in this album ? No Dua Lipa.. sorry.
July 20, 20215 yr Full album announcement with a full track list. Album cover that's the same as the teaser in the Everyday Life booklet. Wow. The "vol.i" bit in the announcement definitely has me thinking. Why mention that if there's no "vol.ii" on the way in the next couple of years? And "vol.iii" to fit with the "melodic orbit in three parts" thing? Could those be further studio albums in the coming years, which would basically make MOTS the biggest project they've ever done? I was under the impression that the album would just be divided into three distinct parts, maybe four songs each. But now that doesn't seem to be the case.
July 20, 20215 yr ? is "MOTS"✨ maybe the name is really just the emoji or "Interlude". This one is the only one which the audio doesn't appear on overtura album preview and I don't figure out why. The MOTS 1 and 2 are also preludes and interludes so....❤️ is "Human Heart"? is "MOTS 2"♾️ is "Infinity Sign" (my guesses are that this one is Life is Beautiful)
July 20, 20215 yr Should be a 3 part album ı am pretty sure vol 2 is rework some of the old song maybe next year, than 2023 another new album ?
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