It doesn’t take long to see that Martin is reeling to put the pieces of his life back together, and the best way he knows how to do that is through music. And while the album’s pervading malaise isn’t an evolution itself-Martin and company are no strangers to penning sad songs-the circumstances surrounding the album are: it’s a true-blue breakup album. Unlike recent Coldplay releases, Ghost Stories looks inward, not outward, into the emotional ties of singer Chris Martin’s split with his ex-wife, actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Trading in the typically ornate anthems for more-melancholic compositions, the album falls somewhere between new wave pop and adult contemporary rather than stadium-size pop-rock. The reason for that isn’t because of the band’s ever-increasing list of influences, nor their penchant for trying different styles and elements it’s that Coldplay came of age in a time when bands needed to adapt to their surroundings in order to survive.Īnd the band’s new album, Ghost Stories, is indeed another kind of evolution. In little over a decade, their music has gone from adopting early-Radiohead tendencies to U2 over-the-topnessness to Kraftwerk textures to Brian Eno sensibilities-all the while managing to sound strictly like, well, Coldplay. And evolve they have, reincarnating their persona into several different versions with each new release. Coldplay has been around long enough for its members to know the value of evolution.
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