Coldplay-'Music of The Spheres' review: space or waste?

When listening to the British, alternative rock band’s newest spaced themed album, I would have rather have just been shot into space myself. Having been inspired by “wondering what musicians are like across the universe” it makes you think, a universe with different musicians to this band may be a lot better.

The 41.50 long album released October 15th had two main singles supporting it “Higher Power” and “My Universe.” Ultimately both songs follow the same idea and other than the lyrics not much tells the two apart. The feature of BTS upon “My Universe” was a clever way of attracting a wider audience but, the effort still leaves the song bland and unmelodic to the ears.

Coldplay performing live for Nissan.

However, there was one interesting concept to the album, after every two songs they created a lo-fi instrumental which is something you wouldn’t expect from Coldplay. It adds something different and a little bit more unique to what we are used to hearing from the indie-rock band. Although this is quickly backtracked and reduces the album back to the trashy attempt at a modern comeback when we see the use of emojis as a song title. This is childish and unless you’re trying to attract an audience of nine year olds it’s mostly pointless and adds nothing to the album.

There’s no way lead singer Chris Martin could top some of their greatest hits such as “Yellow” and “The Scientist.” These songs were iconic and songs people would romanticize their fantasies to. They should’ve stuck to just looking at the stars rather than expanding to the entire universe.

Coldplay Concert Stage (Osheaga 2009) going back to their roots of performing.

Overall the album was just an attempt of an outdated band trying to make a comeback. No story and boring to the ears. They say in space nobody can hear you scream, hopefully nobody can hear you sing either.