Coldplay Everyday Life 180g 2LP

TAS Rated 4/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the April 2020 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

"...This virtual double album offers a range of emotion by splitting songs into distinct Sunrise and Sunset sections. It opens with a contemplative symphonic instrumental titled "Sunrise" and delivers multiple musical styles. Frontman Chris Martin ponders a host of topics ripped from today's headlines - everyday life, if you will. Those include gun control (Guns), police brutality (Trouble In Town), the refugee crisis (Orphans), and the restorative nature of faith (Broken). But Every Day Life also looks at love and friendship. The album offers a global perspective thanks to two Nigerian musicians (Femi Kuti and Tiwa Savage) and a Belgian rapper (Stromae). A call to embrace the family of man, "Arabesque" percolates with Pakistani rhythms, and "When I Need a Friend" is buoyed by a Nigerian choir. Fans of the band's stadium-rock anthems might find Everyday Life challenging, yet this collection of songs is an uplifting balm for troubled times. " - Greg Cahill, The Absolute Sound Magazine, April 2020

Colplay's 'Everyday Life' album, featuring a vintage looking cover with Foil/Holographic Stamping, contains the singles "Arabesque" and "Orphans.

"It's all about just being human," frontman Chris Martin told Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1. "Every day is great and every day is terrible...It just feels kind of free. There's so much life bursting out on the planet."

"[The album] is our reaction to the perceived negativity that's everywhere. And there is a lot of trouble, but there's also so much positivity and so much great life happening. So in a way, it's just trying to make sense of things, saying what we feel and what we see."