this album is so fucking brilliant i've been struggling to come up with the words for months now. sweet trip stripped back the noise and dialed up the songwriting majesty tenfold. i would kill to have written like, any one of these songs, and these mfers jammed them all into a single album. the hooks, the atmosphere, the textures, the harmonies, the sheer emotional resonance, it's all so familiar and catchy yet so distinctly its own thing.
Kicks their last album's ass, but that's not a high bar. Still not seeing whatever it is Coldplay sees to justify this three-album space "concept" that never gets off the ground. I'll reiterate again that Coldplay are a very capable band who casually dropped the best album of 2019 imo, and nobody cared. But shiit, they're fun to hate, right?
Overall, Chris is at least using a fuller range of his voice and delivers a nice performance over the entire album. But ... read more
It's good, I really enjoy a lot of tracks. Pretty bold overall, which is good to hear in the genre. But over half of this tracklist feels underbaked and not even close to the same caliber as stuff like Sympathy Is A Knife or Von Dutch