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A Sky Full of Stars (Kölsch Remix)

Coldplay

2014

A Sky Full of Stars (Kölsch Remix)

Release Date:  2014

By Pitchfork

Reviewed October 2, 2014

How do you get bigger and bouncier than Avicii, EDM's reigning boy king? Why try at all? The inescapable Swede gave Coldplay their most festival-ready song by surrounding Chris Martin’s wide-eyed wail with buoyant keyboards, blissfully pushing the tempo before demanding the audience jump up and down—like, a lot. But for his remix, Danish producer Kölsch turns down to a controlled, undulating thump, reducing those keys to a handful of lonesome notes while subtracting Martin’s presence so all that remains is a ghostly ooh. It paces toward a climax that never comes. Avicii’s crowd-galvanizing drop is replaced with a glittering emptiness, the sound of a sky full of stars, but no one on Earth to share them with. The beat drops back in, revealing a different sort of bliss that can be found in solitude.

8:00 PM · Oct 2, 2014 · 1 Views