Everyday Life (studio album) by Coldplay

one of the best, it’s like singing for god, so sophisticated but so pure. When I die i’m sure the angels will call me by this songs

This is the second album I bought by Coldplay, going backward from their 2021 release. This is an excellent album with an almost modern progressive feel. I will be going back further into their catalogue, they seem to be a band capable of releasing quite different albums which I like.

One of the best albuns by Coldplay...underated in this site

From llibnanoon 09/09/2020 15:33

This is damn near a perfect album! THE issue is there is too much unnecessary filler. Had they trimmed this down to 10 tracks, this would of been album of the year! Sad I could only give it a rating of (81.56) when in fact it should be over 90.

Honestly I was a bit skeptical about buying this album after their pretty weak album “A Head Full Of Dreams”. It’s close to being a masterpiece. I’m glad Coldplay are doing again what made them a great band it’s quite different to anything else they have done.

I like Coldplay for a long time now and this album is not disappointing at all. Favorite song - Daddy.

From Strangel 12/03/2019 11:18

Hmmm, not bad... not bad at all...

Something unfinished but in a deliberate way. Moments of classic 80's flashback. Still a very generic feel to the lyrics. Clumsy attempts at demo-style and gospel. Way off their best but I am stuck in Rush Of Blood land.

From Keatownrodriguez 11/26/2019 22:07

An amazing album by Coldplay standards, and that's not a dig at the album I genuinely was invested in this record front to back, which is actually something I've never felt on a colplay record.

From kynes 11/24/2019 10:50

Earlier this week I was blessed with an absolutely crippling case of insomnia and, in my dazed, "can't fucking believe I'm awake at 6am" state, I figured I'd give that darned new Coldplay record a shot. "Ghost Stories" had actually landed pretty nicely on my ears just a few years prior and all, so...why not give it a go? "Experimental" was a claim I was never going to buy: we all knew what this "double album" was going to be before launching in.

...Or did we?

Welp, turns out, we basically did. Everyday Life is not pushing pop-rock-anthem boundaries another band hasn't pushed (and pushed more successfully) before: U2 has been doing this shit since "All that You Can't Leave Behind." That said, after a decade of half-hearted attempts at more straightforward pop, it seems that Martin and co. have finally chosen to (belatedly) acknowledge that their strength lies in tender balladry and chorus-driven anthems. This plays to their advantage. Chris Martin, despite his desire to front a neo-disco outfit, has not lost his superhuman touch with the sentimental: "Orphans", "Old Friends", and "Champion of the World" all pluck heartstrings with greater force than any of the next-best Coldplay tracks of the 2010s (Charlie Brown, Always in My Head...Magic?). Frankly, I don't see much use in delving in to the more traditional highlights: what's to be gained from reminding you that Coldplay is really fucking good at being...Coldplay?

Except that's not really all that happened.

Oh no. Not at all.

No, this record is bizarre, and what's damn bizarre about this record is the borderline-abrasive genre hopping. Let's break down the "Coldplay-not-doing-Coldplay-shit" just for kicks:

Broken (I refuse to capitalize the E, sorry Chris): Straight vocal gospel. Like...played totally, 100% straight. This is, again, right out of the U2 playbook (everyone knows the best version of "I Still Haven't Found..." is the gospel-choir infused cut on Rattle and Hum), but still...that our British boys refrained from breaking into a reverb-addled gospel-hybrid-thing is commendable. Again, though, just...bizarre. Think about this. Then listen to it. It doesn't get any less weird.

Arabesque: It's been a few weeks, so we're used to it now...but...the Kuti family is playing on a Coldplay track. The Kuti family is playing on a Coldplay track and it's not a fucking gimmick. Gimmick-be-damned, "Arabesque" is a poorly-named heavy hitter of a song, the centerpiece of "Everyday Life", and blessed with thick-ass electric piano, horns galore, and Martin successfully writing the "we're all one" message Bono hasn't been able to string together in years. The only downside to this number is how it brings the degrees of separation between Kuti and the Chainsmokers down to one.

When I Need a Friend: I'm fucking losing my mind. Is this fucking real? Chris Martin singing with a church choir (like, traditional church choir) over found-sounds? Do I even need to talk about this? It's fucking great. Fuck. Fuck.

Èkó: Joni-esque guitar. Flower-child folk-music. They just keep hitting us with this shit, huh? It's well executed, too! I've lost the ability to speak critically about what's going on here; all I know is that the sounds aren't weird, it's just weird to hear them coming from Coldplay. It might be even weirder that it's actually good.

Cry Cry Cry: Chris Martin and the Coldtones. How long has Martin been into doo-wop and why is it just now manifesting in his musical direction? It's hard to imagine this track translating to a Coldplay show (not that they'll be playing any on an international level, I suppose), but it almost feels like I'm being toyed with at this point. "Bet you didn't know I like Dion, assholes"- Chris Martin, 2019

بني آدم: Why is this baroque piano piece on the record? Because Chris Martin is already richer than god, that's why.


What a bold, anti-commercial move from a band I had written off as selling-out harder than Tekashi69 in court. I'm not sure that this genre-hopping approach served the record's flow particularly well, but it might've been the only way the Coldplay family could challenge the ever-growing perception of the band as a brand rather than...well, a band.

How did "Cry Cry Cry" end up being good. Fuck.