Everyday Life

I am a big fan of Coldplay and have loved all their music. This particular recording is amazing and deep. It's adventurous and feels like a journey. I didn't know what to expect and I am so completely happy with the entire recording. I highly recommend this. I really love it and can't stop playing it!

- broad variety of music yet each track highly enjoyable. Highly recommend for every Coldplay fan

I have followed Coldplay since I first saw the video for "Yellow" at the end of 2000. I didn't completely enjoy their first album, "Parachutes", and so in 2002, when they released "A Rush of Blood to the Head", I didn't buy it. It took me a little while to come back around to them, but by 2005's "X & Y" I was back on board and I've never wavered since. They make interesting albums, and I see them as successors to U2. Their sound is anthemic, political, emotional, all the things U2 had worked on prior to Coldplay coming on the scene. "Everyday Life" is the band's eighth studio album, and it finds the band in transition. At first, I wasn't sure I liked the album, but with repeated listens it began to grow on me, and I began to pay attention to all of its themes, moods and nuances. This is not an album for young people. Chris Martin & Co. are in their 40's now. This is an album that reflects that maturity. It's diverse, and there's a theme of humanity here. There's songs about friends, about connection, about family, about things that matter universally. The music alternates between songs that definitely sound like Coldplay such as "Church", "Daddy", "Arabesque", "Orphans", "Old Friends" and "Champion of the World" and classical songs like "Sunrise" and "Children of Adam", and stripped down folk/gospel songs like "Broken", "Wonder of the World/Power of the People", "When I Need a Friend", "Guns", "Eko" and "Everyday Life", and two outliers like "Trouble in Town" and "Cry, Cry, Cry". So, there's a range of sounds here. I could tell the band was trying to move in a different direction here. Not unlike 2014's "Ghost Stories". There's a sense that the band wants to grow and change here. That they don't want to just continue the stadium rock sound found on "X & Y", "Viva La Vida", "Mylo Xyloto" and "A Head Full of Dreams". In a way, "Everyday Life" finds the band heading back to "Parachutes" and "A Rush of Blood to the Head" in the sense that those two albums had more intimate, stripped down songs on them. "Everyday Life" will reward with repeated listens, and a focus on what the themes are here. I also think, if you are in your 40's (as I am), you might find more rewards here than if you are in your 30's or 20's or teens. Here's how "Everyday Life" compares to the band's other works: 2000 Parachutes: Three Stars 2002 A Rush Of Blood To The Head: Three and a Half Stars 2005 X & Y: Four Stars 2008 Viva La Vida: Five Stars 2011 Mylo Xyloto: Four Stars 2014 Ghost Stories: Three Stars 2015 A Head Full Of Dreams: Four Stars 2019 Everyday Life: Four Stars

I admire a bands creativity, and will to try music that's no so much cookie cutter as the last. I think they really achieved it with Everyday Life. I think I've listened to it non stop for about 10 days now, and find myself dissecting the lyrics, and the music. Usually music has to be superb for me to dig in deeper like that. Many standout track including Guns, Everyday Life, Orphans, Trouble in Town, Arabesque, Sunrise, and Daddy really moved me. Music should touch your soul, and this album really does. Luckily I saw Coldplay a year or so ago in stadium performance, and was just in awe of watching their performance in Jordan as they truly are one of very few bands that can make their audience feel engaged not just musically but almost like in a spiritual plane.

This album is full of beautiful tunes and catchy melodies. I'm a classical music lover too and this album works well for me. Coldplay is a truly talented band with ceaseless experiments and creativeness. This is my second vinyl album of the band and it sounds very good. I mean it sounds like vinyl with well balanced EQ's (Treble/Bass) especially compare to "A Head Full Of Dreams" LP album, which sounds dull and flat. One thing I don't like like about this album is, though, that there are some f & s words expressed. Was it really necessary?

First, as others have said, this is not a double CD, and only has about 50min worth of music on 1 CD. Second, I read a review where someone said its not worth buying this CD for only 4/5 good songs. I gotta disagree as 3 of those songs are great, and one is perhaps their best of all time, so worth it for me. It opens with an incredibly beautiful violin solo on Sunrise. Then the next song Church is excellent. Then nothing good until the 10th song, Orphans, which is also excellent. Then nothing that great until Champion of the World, which I think is one of their best ever. I love it, especially the incredible vocal harmonies toward the end of the song. And then it wraps up with Everyday Life, which is very good. Seems to me like they were experimenting trying other types of music, blues, gospel, etc., and it just didn't work. I own all of Coldplays CDs so had to have this one too. But I think its one of their weakest from start to finish with only those few good songs.

I've always enjoyed Coldplay's hits but never really considered myself a true fan. This recording changed that. I streamed the video when it came out and was drawn in to the organic, melodic feel of the songs. Some are sparse and simple while others, "Arabesque" in particular, pull you in slowly and build to blow you away with massive raw power. I love the world rhythms and voices that populate several cuts, especially the richness of the Gosple tune "Broken". The overall feel and message of this volume is undeniably different for this band, and challenging for some fans who have been disappointed. I admire and applaud Coldplay's risk and inventiveness in making a record of substance and integrity. The album packaging is a well designed and beautiful "booklet" that completes the project and makes buying this even more worthwhile. If you appreciate music that stays with you and moves you emotionally you won't be disappointed.

This is a great album to get, personally got it for a gift and the person loved it! it contains several staples of the band that are hard to miss, and harder not to like. Great choice for a gift and a must for collectors!