Coldplay

Everyday Life

Everyday Life certainly shatters the illusion that Coldplay is a boring, safe band – so if nothing else, that’s a start.

While Everyday Life is bursting with thoughts on modern life, it also has the big-tent pop moments that made Coldplay one of the 21st century’s most reliable arena acts.

Closing a decade defined by stadium-sized hits of optimism, Coldplay manages to grow even bigger with Everyday Life, absorbing flavors from across the globe with their most indulgent and, perhaps, poignant album yet.

These songs are sometimes more exciting in theory than in practise, but ‘Everyday Life’ regularly steps to the left-field, proving that Coldplay are more adventurous than they’re often given credit for.

All told, Everyday Life is an album of exploration, a wandering excursion of sound and tone, of feeling and reflection. It doesn’t have as many immediate show stoppers as we’ve been fed in the past, rather it offers a more subtle and scaled back approach to presenting its messages.

They are here to make a statement while also releasing their familiar emotional ballads. Everyday Life mixes the magic of “old” Coldplay with their smash hits that have kept them at the top for so long. And it works.

Everyday Life lives between the stripped-down comfort of Ghost Stories and the mercurial nature of Viva La Vida, but most importantly, it provides more hope than ever that they have another masterpiece in them.

They sound refreshed, revitalised, and on their best form since Viva La Vida, even if the quality does vary throughout the record.