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Already did with Chinese Sleep Chant and it's among their absolute best songs I'm not expecting anything left from them anymore, my only hope is they will learn the lesson from all the angst and shitty reviews they got with MOTS. Let's hope they will start acting their age and live their present time without being so childish and generic. Please guys, do not repeat yourselves and push yourselves to the limit of your creativity until the end, you did it well recently with Everyday Life and Coloratura

All this hatred from critics was heavily predictable since the end of the EL era and the first hints about the direction they were taking with MOTS. And, to be honest, I strongly agree that this is by far the most disappointing effort they could ever perform

Brilliant Coloratura Great Human Heart Good Higher Power Eh Let Somebody Go Infinity Sign Humankind MOTS Alien Choir What? My Universe People Of The Pride Biutyful MOTS II

ASFOS was more "house-y" than Infinity Sign

I need to give it another proper listen, but for now I can say that Biutyful and People Of The Pride are the worst ones for me. My favourites remain Coloratura, Human Heart and Higher Power

My prediction on the base setlist

I still wait for the studio version to judge it, they ruined some decent songs with the production through the years, starting from the MX era (I'm thinking of Hurts Like Heaven and Up&Up for example). From the snippet in Overtura it seems like a rip-off of Uprising, so that's why I'm waiting the release of the album before saying anything about it

Humankind is basically Fun (feat. Tove Lo) part 2

It's intended to be that way, a little dissonant but organic

MU live @ Global Citizen is just embarassing

they already peaked in production when they put together Brian Eno and Jon Hopkins

Complaining with the guys for performing such a sellout nowadays is really out of place, they started selling out 11 years ago with MX, the only thing left is to appreciate the proper good songs they release once in a while when they remember who they were before the worst. We knew from the beginning what was the purpose for My Universe, and it was not artistically related. At least I can say that imho there are far worse songs in their catalogue (Princess Of China, A Sky Full Of Stars, Miracles, Something Just Like This, Hymn For The Weekend, X Marks The Spot, Orphans)

Parachutes Don't Panic (10) Shiver (10) Spies (10) Sparks (9) Yellow (7) Trouble (8) Parachutes (7) High Speed (9) We Never Change (9) Everything's Not Lost (10) Life is For Living (7) Total score: 96/11 = 8.73 A Rush Of Blood To The Head Politik (9) In My Place (7) God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (9) The Scientist (8) Clocks (9) Daylight (10) Green Eyes (10) Warning Sign (10) A Whisper (8) A Rush Of Blood To The Head (10) Amsterdam (10) Total score: 100/11= 9.09 X&Y Square One (10) What If (8) White Shadows (9) Fix You (8) Talk (8) X&Y (10) Speed Of Sound (10) A Message (8) Low (10) The Hardest Part (9) Swallowed In The Sea (10) Twisted Logic (9) Til Kingdom Come (9) Total score: 118/13= 9.08 Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends Life In Technicolor (8) Cemeteries of London (10) 42 (9) Lost! (8) Lovers In Japan (9) Yes (10) Viva La Vida (6) Violet Hill (10) Strawberry Swing (9) Death And All His Friends (10) Total score: 89/10 = 8.90 Mylo Xyloto MX/Hurts Like Heaven (7) Paradise (7) Charlie Brown (7) Us Against The World (8) M.M.I.X/Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (7) Major Minus (8) U.F.O (8) Princess Of China (6) Up In Flames (7) AHT/ Don't Let It Break Your Heart (7) Up With The Birds (8) Total score: 80/11 = 7.27 Ghost Stories Always In My Head (9) Magic (8) Ink (7) True Love (7) Midnight (10) Another's Arms (8) Oceans (9) A Sky Full Of Stars (6) O (Fly On) (9) Total score: 73/9 = 8.11 A Head Full Of Dreams A Head Full Of Dreams (8) Birds (8) Hymn For The Weekend (6) Everglow (7) Adventure Of A Lifetime (7) Fun (7) Kaleidoscope (6) Army Of One (6) X-Marks The Spot (5) Amazing Day (7) Up & Up (8) Total score: 75/11 = 6.82 Everyday Life Sunrise (8) Church (9) Trouble In Town (9) BrokEn (8) Daddy (8) WOTW/POTP (7) Arabesque (9) When I Need A Friend (7) Guns (9) Orphans (6) Èkó (8) Cry Cry Cry (9) Old Friends (9) Bani Adam (9) Champion Of The World (9) Everyday Life (9) Total score: 133/16 = 8.31

Death And All His Friends vs Careful Where You Stand

we had to go through 10 years of disappointments to have this one, just to know that they can still properly play and compose quality music. It's a pity that this one (and maybe Human Heart) will be the only song(s) to look for on this era