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Q MagazineDec 9, 2015This warm and busy album pursues pop as a democratic ideal. The uplift isn't subtle--the tracklisting looks like something you'd come up with after a wrap of MDMA-- but it's infectious. [Jan 2016, p.110]
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Dec 7, 2015The album doesn’t always work, but more often than not it sounds enough like vintage Coldplay to satisfy both diehards and casual listeners.
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Dec 7, 2015More than any previous Coldplay release, A Head Full of Dreams sounds like a pop record; the band has never been catchier.
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Dec 7, 2015If A Head Full of Dreams really is to be Coldplay’s last hurrah, then they’ve gone out with a flashbang of colour and catharsis.
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Dec 7, 2015[Chris Martin's] hinted that this could be Coldplay's last album; if so, they're going out on a sustained note of grace.
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Dec 7, 2015Coldplay cheerfully embrace the cheese, ratcheting up both the sparkle and the sentiment so the album feels genuine in its embrace of eternal middle-aged clichés.
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Dec 4, 2015Clearly, the members of Coldplay haven’t completely shaken off their ghosts. But just as clearly, they’ve found joy again in “Dreams.”
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Dec 2, 2015Blissful even at its most bittersweet, it’s an album on which three songs make lyrical references to diamonds--as in, “We are diamonds”--and every surface contentedly gleams.... Mr. Martin, who has rediscovered the radiant properties of his voice, gilds a lot of lyrical treacle and borderline nonsense here.
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Negative: 65 out of 461
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