🌙 Coldplay: Moon Music 🎵 | Out October 4th | Discussion

[m4racide]

9 hours ago, lennyrott1 said:

The mixing is def inconsistent. I'm not sure if its the final mix working with Max Martin and his crew, but it's very popified Sometimes pretty compressed, other times the bass and guitar are super drowned out. MOTS had it bad too. I don't know how they downgraded so much after the really excellent mixing on Everyday Life.

This Man in the Moon remaster is sounding awesome. 

Spike Stent is the man who we gotta glaze more... maybe the band'll work with him more if they realise we love him! (just kidding, our opinions don't matter lol)

[CP-EST]

I would say Moon Music is mixed alright considering what their focus with that "product" was - very pop oriented and comfortable listen, playing with billion of different styles throughout the album, but keeping it very even, not letting any instrumental shine too much to not break the balance of the whole album. So, I think they have done quite good job with making each song sound like Moon Music song. But does each individual song sound good? - That depends on taste haha. I don't think there is anyone here to blame doing poor job with anything, if anything we can blame the band's (mostly Chris' of course) intentions of going very polished pop direction with MOTS era.

I think the best example is iAAM, which most of the fans want to compare to VLV era, but as a product to me iAAM sounds almost incomparably different to any VLV stuff. VLV sound was very rich and colorful and letting all of the instrumental to be alive and rock, while Moon Music implementation takes the idea of VLV era sound, makes it very compressed and puts it as a background of Chris' vocals. To me iAAM sounds very claustrophobic, that kind of song deserved more breathing and richness, not just with mixing, but everything about it.

Yeah, Everyday Life's mixing was different, but the whole focus of with those songs and album and was different. Hopefully the "Coldplay" album goes back to that way, where every millisecond of production and mixing/mastering is about making the record sound like classic Coldplay without any compromises.

[edupoint]

On 5/21/2025 at 9:13 PM, CP-EST said:

I think the best example is iAAM, which most of the fans want to compare to VLV era, but as a product to me iAAM sounds almost incomparably different to any VLV stuff. VLV sound was very rich and colorful and letting all of the instrumental to be alive and rock, while Moon Music implementation takes the idea of VLV era sound, makes it very compressed and puts it as a background of Chris' vocals. To me iAAM sounds very claustrophobic, that kind of song deserved more breathing and richness, not just with mixing, but everything about it.

I can stand iAAM verses, but the chorus ruins everything for me, too easy and non-inspired. Could have been something else completely...

[lennyrott1]

I 100% agree with all of this. I feel like we all get swept up in the hype of iAAM because finally we had Jonny and Chris's piano syncopated together again, the type of instrumentation that often made Viva so incredible. But the final mix is produced more like a pop song than an actual rock song. 

But on the more positive side -- sometimes that pop production isn't so bad. I think Good Feelings sounds pretty fresh and fun, a lot of the instrumental details come through nicely. 

[Gideon_Mx]

I agree with many of the points made. I think iAAM is a great song, but the final mix kinda disappointed me.

[scottjwong]

On 5/20/2025 at 3:55 PM, m4racide said:

honestly, after sitting with Moon Music for a bit, i think a lot of the mixes are very bad. 

 

here's a bit of a man in the moon mix i'm working on as part of a remaster project.

Great mix m4racide. Could I pls have a copy when you're done. It sounds amazing.

[m4racide]

hello on your crescent! 

[m4racide]

there are a few minor errors in the intro with the "ahhs" I'll fix in a future version (i.e., once I finish the rest)

[alexix7]

Just played full band version Speed of Sound for the first time since 2016, yay! 

[edupoint]

On 6/15/2025 at 10:51 AM, alexix7 said:

Just played full band version Speed of Sound for the first time since 2016, yay! 

I remember it was unfairly received at its time, because of the resemblance to "Clocks" (because of the piano melody and nothing else), but the song is not as bad as the band and some of the public think at all. I´m happy to see that in these days they leave room for the fans´ memories.

[nvdmm]

On 5/26/2025 at 10:47 PM, m4racide said:

hello on your crescent! 

This is excellent work my friend! Bravo! You've expertly demonstrated one of the band's main shortcomings post VLV and managed to polish the work of a multi-million dollar project the members of which couldn't do!