“Everyday Life” is Coldplay’s eight album a double album with a first and second half
which are called “sunrise” & “sunset”. They are like rock contemporaries U2
where they do not make bad albums just not every album is as good as most of
their work. They usually have a handful of good songs that salvages an album if
it’s not their best work and this is exactly like that with this album as it is
one of their worst albums. I understand the goal in trying to be political and
wanting people to embrace all cultures or opinions and bring everyone together,
but they took way too many liberties in making this album. They say their
themes were “love, equality, pain, struggles, legacy, humanity, hope, and
everyday life that’s how everyone is different but we’re all part of the same
big family.” I also do not understand why it has eight blank tracks mixed in as
well.
The song “Trouble in town” is a
beautiful song but has dialogue from a police officer berating a black man, and
“Bnai Adam” is a beautiful instrumental song but gets ruined by random people
speaking during it without any singing, just talking. They start off the album
with a nice instrumental in “Sunrise” and the song “Church” is just ok but that’s
where it starts to tail off. I don’t get “Broken” or “When I need a friend”,
they use an annoying choir to repeat everything he says, uses another language and
the song “Arabesque” has him singing in different languages which is odd. Another
bad song is “Cry Cry Cry” because it has some annoying kid/auto tune or woman
sounding like a baby which takes away from Chris Martin’s vocals. While “Guns”
is supposed to speak out against gun violence, but it just sounds like a bad
song. The song “Eko” is one of their just ok songs but is supposed to have a
hidden message like most of the songs on the album.
The song “Orphans” is one of the average to above average songs that is catchy even if the chorus sounds odd and you again here a choir but at least it’s in the chorus not the whole song.
While the song “Wonder of the World / Power of the People is a nice song but it’s
an incomplete song, and sounds like a demo and felt like they could have left
it off the album.
There are only four really good
songs that stick out on the album like in “Daddy” it’s a father’s struggle of
not seeing his son as much he wants and has a beautiful piano part in it. “Old
friends” is a touching tribute to his friend Tony who saved his life when they
were young so that is worth listening to. The two most beautiful songs on the
album are “Champion of the world” which is about Scott Hutchison, the lead
singer of Frightened Rabbit who took his life in May 2018 after struggling with
depression. In “Everyday life” the track title is a great beautiful way to end
the album with a positive message that is used to wrap up their messages
throughout.
They decided talking about racism,
gun control, Islamic fear, using other languages, Syrian civil war, Nigeria,
poems being recited and choirs was the way to make a rock album. They were
trying to make a point/difference in being political and it backfired because
the album is horrible outside of four really good songs.
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