Coldplay's 'new' direction...

Yoko alert. Doomed for disaster.

What is the fallacy of Radiohead?

and all of this (70s eno/bowie, kraftwerk, and wu-tang stylings) are only making me SALIVATE in anticipation of this thing's release.

I don't think I want to hear Chris Martin doing his version of Joe The Lion.

yeah, but think about it Eisbar, this is COLDPLAY emulating berlin-era bowie, and the Wu.

i KNOW! that's exactly WHY i wanna hear it ... and NOT in a snarky way.

post of the year

NO KRAFTWERK FOR ANY NEW COLDPLAY DAMNIT!!!!! I CAN'T BEAR IT. OUCH.

HA HA HAHAH AHA!

-former Radiohead fan

Seriously though, I do think a book should be written entitled The Fallacy of Radiohead.

To be fair though, I suppose he should use headphones regardless of what he's playing :)

Fabulous.

"Must we expose the youth of Britain to this shit?", said Peter Tatchell of gay rights movement Outrage! "Sorry, new album? What new album?"

Does anyone on ILM actually like Coldplay? I'm growing more and more sick of them.

"More recently, Coldplay began dropping a series of fascinating reference points - electronica, Brian Eno and Kraftwerk - none of which seemed to fit in with their reputation as purveyors of elegiac, mid-tempo, stadium-friendly ballads. At the very least, an intriguing listen was on the cards."

that blinding light you can see on the horizon is 1978.

"The Fir Trees" is also the least fascinating pseudonym you could get in 2005.

are they anything like DMB fans?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/uk_t_in_the_park/img/7.jpg

Chris said: “We shouldn’t restrict our options. To me, the most bizarre things at the moment are the most exciting. I’d even be up for making a didgeridoo album in Alice Springs.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005470078,00.html

LOL @ "Viva la Vida" being used as a pro-life anthem (get it?) at rally in Spain.

(watch video)

oh god

The lyrics to their new single are just... wow.

"make sweet love to me gwynnie, let your golden locks caress my taint."

Coldplay is doing a bit of Daft Punk, never thought i would see the day.

please explain.
heard the new track today on the radio and really do not get the connection.
as for the track :
it's ok.
nothing more, nothing less.
summary : mumford and sons vs a drum track.
and for the record, i am not a hater.

I'd be interested to know if the song is knowingly pseudo-tropical house or if that's just a happy coincidence.

After a few more listens, song is okay. Hopes for the new album are enh.

I'll still buy it though.

So, it would seem that, in spite of them playing at the Superbowl (which I've only really heard about because of the negative publicity) that Coldplay's new album is as easy to ignore as the last one. A quick internet search shows that the album has been out for two months and yet again I have managed to not hear a single cut from the record, unintentionally or otherwise. I also notice that the record got an incredibly mixed reception, and performed absolutely woefully on the album chart pretty much everywhere aside from Norway, so even though it would seem like Mr. Hongro is still buying their records in bulk, it looks like the writing is on the wall, chaps.

It's a pure pop record. Ghost Stories had some substance, but I file the new one next to Mylo Xyloto because it's just going for the stadiums with nothing really substantial in terms of songs. It's nice while it's playing, but nothing memorable whatsoever happens. I'd rate it probably their worst album.

And I say all that as a fan who has found something to be liked on all of their albums.

The problem with the new one is it doesn't have the sad/release dynamic of their best stuff.

I did know they had a new one out as I was sick at the weekend, which resulted in me watching bits of the Coldplay documentary on Sky Arts on a diet of Uniflu and hot whiskeys.

The Guns n Roses documentary (The Most Dangerous Band In The World) was on right before it on BBC Four, which made the Coldplay one seem incredibly low-stakes in comparison - I kept waiting for a riot to happen, or Chris Martin to admonish his colleagues onstage for being a bit too fond of 'Mr Brownstone'.

More like Mylo Zzziloto

just going for the stadiums

"Sky Full Of Stars" was a big top 10 hit only a year ago and this album's promo cycle isn't over yet, i wouldn't count them out as far as commercial relevance yet. but i do get the impression that what they're planning to do next is, like, a Greatest Hits album and a breakup/hiatus for a Chris solo album or something.

That's my impression too. A Greatest Hits might be the best Coldplay album.

It's a cracking album, the new one. It's not as easy as it looks, touching people's hearts at the same time as making tunes that are ballsy enough to fill a big venue. I think Coldplay are just about the best proper pop band going right now.

that lead single really sounds like foals.

xpost Bah. It's really easy to do that. It just takes a certain kind of robotic soullessness to aim for that all the time (see: KLF, "The Manual," plenty of arena country)

Idea of Coldplay being any sort of go-to stadium band makes me pine for the worst of late 80s Kerr and Bono

Yeah, it's like chain fast food. Do people really go because it tastes good, or just because it's fast, easy and a good value for a ton of calories?

Hating somebody because they're popular always sounds a bit bitter to me ;-)

I don't hate Coldplay! I think you'll find me upthread saying I like their first four albums, to degrees. But I really, really don't like the last three, because they are so shameless in their triangulation. They're the Clintons of Rock.

They're so inoffensive it becomes an easy target. I don't hate them but their fans are very strange, at least the one I've met. I don't know if they don't listen to that much music or everything they listen falls in the same line but they honestly believe they're such a cool, innovative band. Come on, they're pretty much playing dadrock.

I like dadrock! There's nothing wrong with dadrock. It's the unctuous inoffensiveness that gets under my skin. They're like Maroon 5 with a delay pedal.

I never said there was anything wrong with dadrock. But dadrock is not innovative, cool music. It takes once innovative cool music, digests it and makes it acceptable for everyone to enjoy in the background.

If there concerts are anything similar to what they did on the superbowl, though. The venue owner would do better selling lattes than beers.

Their*

The venue owners would do better selling balloon animals.

New album's cack. Where's the fuckin' PIANO?

they did a surprisingly great Radiohead impersonation on recent single All I Can Think About Is You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLNG0WnGsI