Coldplay is back with their tenth studio album “Moon Music” the second part of
their “Music of the Spheres” as part one was “From Earth with Love” which
was three years ago. Three editions of the album were made available: Notebook, Tour and Full
Moon. Each one has its own exclusive content, including voice memos, live sets,
and bonus tracks. Following the release of the ninth studio album Music of
the Spheres, which subtitled Vol. I: From Earth with Love appears through
the album booklet, hinting at a follow-up to the album in the following years.
Asked about the meaning behind the title, Chris Martin stated it has
to do with accepting all the different phases [of life]" and
"shining your light without any need for anything in return".
Moon
Music is generally described as a pop rock album with music
influences from funk, afrobeat and electronic music. Moon
Music is kind of the story of waking up in the morning and feeling
terrible about yourself, terrible about the world — depressed,
isolated, separate, alone, and not able to be yourself. Through the album,
it’s a journey to feeling the complete opposite at the end of the
day. It also topped the Billboard 200 in the United States with
120,000 units sold, marking the first time since 2016 that a British band
reached number one on both charts simultaneously.
When it comes
to this album at least it isn’t as experimental as the last one. It has some sounding
music that is mostly instrumentals. The real issue is where are the lyrics on
this album? There are some nice acoustic guitars and some nice piano work from front
man Chris Martin but there is no substance to it even if they are very mellow
songs. They take forever to build up to any lyrics and then it dies down
before anything really happens. There are some songs with lyrics but they
have other artists on them but then the music is too poppy or EDM with bad
raps.
The only two
songs that make any impact are IAAM (I am a Mountain) has some nice harmonizing and is probably the best song on the album. The other song is All
My Love which is a very nice single that was performed at the Grammys as it is
apparently their last single ever so enjoy it.
In the end if
Coldplay aka Chris Martin wants to keep doing experimental music that is fine but do not advertise yourself as any kind of rock band. You can keep doing
that kind of music and also make albums that all are a part of a theme, just
call it or yourself something else for the real fans of your rock music. Their
music has definitely been all over the place in recent years as they think we
need to be over the Moon or on Jupiter to listen to them but we do not.