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The best kept secret of the global music industry Xyloto called Mylo, two words that mean nothing, but to be repeated millions of times from October 25, release date of Coldplay's new album. For now, Spain has come a copy, which can only be heard by appointment, in a hearing room at EMI's headquarters in Madrid. On the two colossal bulky computer speakers sound recording there are corresponding signs of the Beatles and Pink Floyd, judges very tall for a band that has been seriously about his popularity.
The secrecy of the group is such that its Spanish subsidiary label have received almost no information about Mylo Xyloto beyond the list of songs and a couple of paragraphs on the production and collaborations. "For all we refer to its website," explain in EMI, but for the most prominent site on the new album are the many ways there are to buy (CD, vinyl, digital or a special box). They also announce concert dates, television appearances and accommodate messages of fans, but the new album, almost nothing.
In an effort to be the new U2, throw the sound cathedral
So far, only two issues have been revealed: Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall, which caused a stir crazy to copy the introduction of the classic Rhythm of the night, and Paradise, half time of baroque pop that would look in the directory, for example , Seal.
The other nine songs on the album, apart from three small bridges instrumental, confirm that, in their efforts to be the new U2, Coldplay definitely the mountain throws the bombast, the cathedral sounds and songs of the stadium. More than half of the disc inherited more or less luck, the burden of collective exuberance Viva la vida, directly aimed at the next concerts on Oct. 26 at the Plaza de Las Ventas in Madrid.
The remaining mixture acoustic ballads (Chris Martin spoke of Woody Guthrie as one of the influences of this album, but beware, they also mentioned David Guetta) and half-times classic mellow with a touch sophisticated. Perhaps their most ardent fans and casual listeners take the bait, but need a little scratch will not find much reward.
As Woody Guthrie cited influence, but also to David Guetta
Far from U2
Half jokingly, half seriously, Chris Martin said a few years ago that his aim was to make Coldplay the biggest band on the planet, a difficult concept to measure, but Anglo musicians who draw from time to time (the brothers Gallagher , Oasis, constantly). Even compared to Coldplay to U2, kings of stadium rock since the late eighties.
Coldplay has fought the assault on the throne in the last decade, but Mylo Xyloto think again on the weekends in the media. For them, the important thing is to get the epic anthem, but the song that is a skeleton says plaintively.
The band has now resorted to the producer of Arcade Fire
The great U2 albums are much more than a strategy to fill stadiums, but Coldplay, with songs like the same Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall or Do not Let It Break Your Heart, runs out of resources: the tunes are monotonous, use tricks obvious to raise the intensity (those drums almost house) and the surprise effect tends to zero. Both point to aconseguir vigorous effect Viva la Vida or Life in technicolor, their previous album, but the hits on this album are far less inspired and do not have much capacity contagious.
Other echoes: Arcade Fire
The best song, quite different, is the initial Hurts Like Heaven, the title seems a tribute to Just Like Heaven, the song of The Cure. Interestingly, another group remembers quite accustomed to the giant Canadians Arcade Fire. They were also identified as heirs to the stadium rock of U2 (the band used to use Irish Wake Up, one of their massive success, as initial line of his concerts in 2005), but have developed a more personal musical approach and nuanced (in them folk and pop weighs as much as the rock) and, above all, a self-narrative that, without reaching the clarity of Springsteen, gives a raw and recent history of North America.
Chris Martin has declared his admiration for Ricky Martin or Shakira
In Xyloto Mylo, Coldplay has also, among others, the producer of the last two albums by Arcade Fire, Markus Dravs, whose hand is especially noticeable in the whiplash it Hurts Like Heaven. Chris Martin sings with the voice frantically half-hidden between a base of guitars and synths that at times sounds like noise. During these four minutes, the band loses heaviness and unsettles the listener with a myriad of arrangements that are changing the subject as it moves, a pulse that does not get back in the rest of the album.
Castles in the air
In his early albums, Coldplay's success was based on intense songs with melodies and big choruses achieved (the exciting Yellow is the best example), a formula that has been depleted over time and who have failed in other ways to channel . Now, many of his songs are pure shell: Stripping the song and you're left with nothing.
Rihanna sings in 'Princess of China', an eighties pop rarity
U2, before the powder was wet round the track took a turn for the strange many degrees Achtung Baby, an artifact twisted now serving 20 years and is recognized as their best work. The evolution of Chris Martin, by contrast, has been derived from a pop-rock-inspired dark indie sound very close to mainstream. Hence, it is becoming less unusual to hear how Chris Martin declares his admiration for artists like Ricky Martin or Shakira.
In their flight to higher categories are with Rihanna, who sings Princess of China, a rarity eighties synth pop and thunderous rhythmic electronic databases. Apparently, Martin had written the theme for an album of the singer, but as I was not too decided to stay and invite them to sing.
Ballads for the masses
It misses the balance of Brian Eno, the controls on Viva La Vida '
On the other side of Mylo Xyloto grow a handful of ballads autumn rocked by acoustic guitars and pianos mild. With Martin putting folkie singer's voice, the circle is closed with 50,000 people singing these emotional tunes in any of his concerts. Us Against the World, which copies the formula beginning Where the Streets Nave No Name, ends up being a nice campfire song. Along these lines, a piece of crooner Up with the Birds and closes the album on a high note.
These issues relate Chris Martin when he speaks of the influence of Woody Guthrie and even the militant left-wing singer Billy Bragg, musicians who used their songs as political weapons. Coldplay's activism has been more timid, but socially itself have been implicated in several cases: the group donates 10% of its profits to charity, a member of Amnesty International and Chris Martin publicly endorsed Barack Obama and is one of the faces campaigns Oxfam fair trade. In a recent interview, Chris Martin asked about the riots in London and only stammered that it was "crazy."
Simple is simple
The album's production tends to the clutter, it misses the order and balance of Brian Eno at the controls in life and live here in a supporting role. The feeling is that many things happen over the songs, but the interior is simple.
Is the case of Charlie Brown: a cathedral built powerful bass sound, choirs emboldened, strong rhythms and brilliant guitars and then play four notes over and over again. As a show of fireworks: fascinates you a few seconds and then gets dark.