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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. 

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

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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.