One of the defining tracks from this summer, the first single release from the album will already be very familiar to most listeners, and is an energetic, euphoric romp. It seemed a cheekily bold boast at the time, but this mainly acoustic number, overlain with some of Jonny Buckland's most delicate electric guitar work to date, is certain to become a firm fan favourite. Introducing the track at this year's Oxegen festival, Martin declared, "You won't know this one yet, but one day it might be your favourite song". Reminiscent musically of Viva La Vida's Lovers In Japan, Charlie Brown is a beautifully uplifting track with rallying lyrics, building to declarations that, "We'll run riot / We'll be glowing in the dark". Like many of the album's tracks Paradise features a 'who-hoa!' hook, and seems built to be sung by large crowds in muddy fields for years to come. Second single Paradise builds slowly over its first half, as strings and organ set the scene before the band unleash the ridiculously catchy sing-a-long chorus. The first track proper, Hurts Like Heaven rushes to great the listener like an over-excited puppy, with rinky-tink 80s keyboard sounds giving way to a more traditionally 'Coldplay sounding' anthemic guitar rocker. All three feature abstract washes and serve to set the scene for the tracks that follow, and give the album a sense of being very much a unified piece. and A Hopeful Transmission - that run trough the album. The first of three short instrumental pieces - along with M.M.I.X. Sonically the album doesn't represent any radical change for the group, but rather distils elements from their previous work into an epically grand collection that cements their imperial position as the biggest gang in town.Ĭoldplay - 'Mylo Xyloto' Track By Track Review The album was produced by Markus Dravs, Daniel Green and Rik Simpson with "enoxification" from long-term collaborator Brian Eno. "It's about being free to be yourself and to express yourself among negative surroundings", Martin says. The story features the characters Mylo and Xyloto, who are living in an oppressive, dystopian urban environment, where they meet in a gang called The Lost Boys and ultimately fall in love, but as with Coldplay's other works the lyrics tend to be more about universal feelings than specifics. As they prepare to release their fifth album, Coldplay find themselves with the title of Biggest Band In The Word within their grasp, and Mylo Xyloto bursts with stadium-sized ambition and colossal tunes.Īccording to Chris Martin, Mylo Xyloto is a concept album, "based on a love story with a happy ending" and inspired by old-school American graffiti and the anti-Nazi pacifist White Rose Movement.
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