Moon Music-Coldplay Album Review:

 

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.