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Nov 21, 2019It is, as ever, heart-on-sleeve stuff, with all of Coldplay’s musical diversions bound together by Martin’s golden gift for melody, almost simplistically direct lyrics and emotive crooning. But, oh my goodness, you’d have to be made of sterner stuff than I to resist.
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Nov 25, 2019Everyday Life is bold and exudes confidence, and it never wanders into long, forgettable stretches the way that both Ghost Stories and A Head Full of Dreams did.
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Nov 22, 2019While Everyday Life is bursting with thoughts on modern life, it also has the big-tent pop moments that made Coldplay one of the 21st century’s most reliable arena acts. ... Catchy, curveball-filled record.
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Nov 26, 2019It’s a band whose great talent has always been its aspirational one-world melodies, now sounding much more like the world.
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Nov 21, 2019Coldplay manages to grow even bigger with Everyday Life, absorbing flavors from across the globe with their most indulgent and, perhaps, poignant album yet.
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Q MagazineNov 21, 2019Confidence seeps through Coldplay's eighth album. It's a thrilling new start, a daring way to kick off their second chapter. [Jan 2020, p.104]
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Nov 21, 2019Everyday Life regularly steps to the left-field, proving that Coldplay are more adventurous than they’re often given credit for.
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Nov 21, 2019Coldplay are a band who explore. Be it the origins of their emotional landscape, or the shallow depths of the mainstream world or even the actual vibrancy; every effort has been made to create an audible spectacle. And gaze on as a band who've evolved into an unstoppable entity carry on their organic exploration.
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Dec 11, 2019Everyday Life mixes the magic of “old” Coldplay with their smash hits that have kept them at the top for so long. And it works.
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Nov 27, 2019Everyday Life lives between the stripped-down comfort of Ghost Stories and the mercurial nature of Viva La Vida, but most importantly, it provides more hope than ever that they have another masterpiece in them.
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Dec 2, 2019Despite the album’s missteps, Coldplay manage to find themselves pockets of beauty in the midst of the chaos that they themselves have ironically created, to craft something melodically unique that whisks us back to 2008’s watermark 'Viva La Vida' era.
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Nov 22, 2019This record is scattered enough to alienate fans who want more consistently upbeat music. But if you’re onboard for the weirdness, the sequencing works surprisingly well.
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Nov 21, 2019Sometimes Everyday Life’s restless quality can be its strength, at other times it makes the album sound unfinished. It does mean though that it’s resulted in Coldplay’s most interesting album for many a year.
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UncutNov 21, 2019An intriguingly diverse "double" (well, 53 minutes) album. [Jan 2019, p.25]
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Nov 25, 2019Despite its sprawling architecture, the album is one of the band’s most consistent, unified works.
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Nov 22, 2019Coldplay is at their best when they’re making no attempt to justify their bombast. ... The result is an album that fulfills the requisite Coldplay requirements — be it plumes of falsetto, odes to brooding despair or decadent displays of jubilation — but ultimately fails to justify its own necessity.
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Nov 22, 2019Here’s what it is, though: quietly ambitious, occasionally ham-handed, decidedly political, dopily mystical, surprisingly pointed, and mostly pretty good. And, maybe most importantly, it is unexpected, in good and bad ways.
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Positive: 224 out of 260
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Mixed: 20 out of 260
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Negative: 16 out of 260
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Nov 22, 2019The proof that Coldplay is still capable of doing amazing music. The songs are so different from each other, but all of them, amazing in their way.
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