You literally couldn’t escape it even by leaving the planet: lead single Higher Power was beamed into the International Space Station. In contrast to the understated release of Everyday Life, Music of the Spheres arrives with an all-guns-blazing promotional campaign. There was a lot of straightforward Coldplay-ing among the experiments, including Orphans, a song so keen to attract thousands of people bellowing along that it borrowed the “woo-woo” vocals from Sympathy for the Devil.įear that their place at the top might be slipping after 20 years has evidently rattled the band. It still clearly wanted to be loved by a mass audience. It dabbled in African music, doo-wop and gospel and included what appeared to be an unfinished demo – yet it was far from the kind of up-yours gesture to which artists who have tired of adulation are often prone. In America it sold barely a tenth of its predecessor, A Head Full of Dreams.
Coldplay’s last album, 2019’s Everyday Life, was their only one in the last 20 years not to go multi-platinum. In recent years, that’s started to look like a problem.
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