““Is anyone out there, I’m close to the end,” Chris Martin murmurs. This confession – in the closing seconds of their song ‘Moon Music’ – is the kind of sombre moment rarely associated with latter-day Coldplay, a band who’ve become synonymous with joyful, technicolour pop so bright and warm it could melt whole icebergs with one chorus. That line not only dims the band’s vibrant light, it also revea”
“Album is the second part of their Music of the Spheres project”
“Chris Martin clearly feels a responsibility to use his bully pulpit to spread positivity. Nothing wrong with that. One of the reasons Coldplay are the biggest ticket-shifters in rock history is that Martin is an amazing frontman, both for his witty, engaging personality and his heartfelt delivery. Yet only the latter ever makes it on to Coldplay’s albums. There is no wit on Moon Music. He complete”
“Moon Music demonstrates all the reasons to be sick of Coldplay, and all the reasons they’ll be missed when they finally retire.”
