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So.. after a week of listenings, here we are : Top / Very good Coloratura - Human Heart - Infinity Sign - Higher Power ( surprisingly ) Good / Average Humankind - People of the Pride Not for me Let Somebody Go - Biutyful - My Universe

Trouble in Town vs People of the Pride

I think everything has already been told ... Music of The Spheres is not Coldplay's best record for sure. It's also the first time I don't take a Coldplay album as a whole and I know it goes with the " one song for one sphere " idea but ... I don't feel it. The band has always been so minutious with the atmosphere of their other eras that I can't help feeling something a bit too bland and neutral. It doesn't mean the songs are bad : Human Heart, Infinity Sign and of course Coloratura sound really amazing to me. Maybe the problem comes of the way they thought about it at the beginning : i

Haha thanks ! You mean that's Jon favourite track of the band too ? Didn't know that !

@kupiz I always thought that Mylo Xyloto was an album made by a depressed person who suddenly discovers happinness ( Chris ? ) ... and his happiness is as strong as was his sadness before. That must be false but I like that idea.

@thomasPh I guess that will be the case for MOTS Vol II ? If they keep going with the logic of one experimental record + one album for world tours each time.. ( GS + AHFOD, EL + MOTS )

Haha yeah that one made me cringe a lot...

Let Somebody Go is a little diamond imo... That's the Coldplay I want to hear at least once in every album. You know, when Chris sings you simple things with simple chords but it touches your soul more than anything.

Higher Power sounds so great right now don't know why

This is the first time I cannot attach a particular sound on a Coldplay album. Yet I find different identities in every song... I think that's what they wanted to do with MOTS. Maybe their most eclectic album in its influences : I hear some VLV, some MX, some Ghost Stories too... But anyway I still hear Coldplay ♥

I expected POTP to be louder but it's fine

Can we talk about how f*cking great the production is ?

It's that Coldplay ballad we always love to hear ... with a really nice buildup at the end. I won't say more !

Let Somebody Go made me shed a tear

Ok you won.