Everyday Life
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Everyday Life
Everyday Life is the eighth studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released on 22 November 2019. It is a double album, with the first half titled Sunrise and the other Sunset. wikipedia
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Pitchfork
The moody 52-minute vision quest is spread over two distinct halves, titled Sunrise and Sunset, giving the band enough space for an unadorned voice memo and a multi-part epic with a two-minute saxophone solo.
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Rollingstone
The easy-listening rock kings deepen their politics and globe-trotting sound on a downright compelling LP.
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Variety
Coldplay's new double album “Everyday Life” revels in experimentation, but falls short of its effort to be deep.
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CoS
The Chris Martin-led outfit return with weightier issues on their minds than just love.
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VULTURE
Don’t Look Now, But Coldplay Are Good Again.
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Daily Titan
From “Sunrise” to “Sunset,” Coldplay’s latest album uses multicultural influences, diverse genre blending and smooth symphonies, creating a listening experience for fans that is filled with the intimacy, sincerity and sharp social commentary that define “Everyday Life.”
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The Atlantic
The band’s double album, Everyday Life, addresses war, violence, and environmental problems—but it reassures the singer and listener before it does anything else.
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The Observer
uneasy listening.
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Stereogum
When was the last time Coldplay released a truly great album? Right now.
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paste
Everyday Life lives between the stripped-down comfort of Ghost Stories and the mercurial nature of Viva La Vida, but most importantly, it provides more hope than ever that they have another masterpiece in them.
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USA TODAY
It's ambitious without being risky: dipping into a variety of genres and topical issues but hewing closely enough to the band's feel-good, hits-filled catalog to satisfy longtime fans. For the rest of us, it's mostly the musical equivalent of a shrug.
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Duke Chronicle
“Everyday Life”’s shortcomings are mostly structural in nature, and the record’s highs are too compelling and numerous for the mistakes to cause any serious harm.
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AV/MUSIC
Everyday Life is, like everyday life, kind of a mess—a jumble of ideas and aspirations and successes and failures. In that way, it might be the most human thing Coldplay has ever done.
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musicOMH
Sometimes Everyday Life’s restless quality can be its strength, at other times it makes the album sound unfinished. It does mean though that it’s resulted in Coldplay’s most interesting album for many a year.
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SPIN
Coldplay’s Adventurous Everyday Life Brings Them Gracefully Back Down to Earth.
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The Wall Street Journal
The group’s latest album marks a newly ambitious direction, featuring a surfeit of genre influences and tackling everything from global politics to matters of the heart.
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RiFF magazine
Everyday Life captures human moments, both good and bad, but the album’s soundscape pushes for something deeper than every other Coldplay album.
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THE YOUNG FOLKS
Coldplay have somehow become unpredictable, mercifully avoiding the same mundanity of everyday life.
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THE UP COMING
This double-edged sword they’ve been playing has now become sharper than ever before.
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ALL MUSIC
Closing a decade defined by stadium-sized hits of optimism, Coldplay manages to grow even bigger with Everyday Life, absorbing flavors from across the globe with their most indulgent and, perhaps, poignant album yet.
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young post
New songs such as Sunrise and Orphans show more sophistication and adventurousness than all previous three albums combined.
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THE RINGER
The band’s new double album, ‘Everyday Life,’ is sprawling, wordly, and alternately enjoyable and awkward.
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inews
A very pleasant listen, then, but maddening in terms of what could have been.
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VICE
While Chris Martin and company indulge some of their most roastable tendencies, we’re sorry to admit it’s actually pretty good.
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The Line of Best Fit
Coldplay are a band who explore. Be it the origins of their emotional landscape, or the shallow depths of the mainstream world or even the actual vibrancy; every effort has been made to create an audible spectacle. And gaze on as a band who've evolved into an unstoppable entity carry on their organic exploration.
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The Irish Times
Then again, even with the filler sheared off this record and its nuts and bolts tightened, there would still be something missing. As Martin sings on the title track, “Am I the future or the history?” On the basis of this album, that’s yet to be decided.
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The Painted Lines
We haven’t heard this kind of Coldplay in quite some time, but this is Coldplay at their best.
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the current
So what's we've got is a sprawling mess — which is both the charm and distraction of Everyday Life (a ha — maybe that's the point!).
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the musical hype
Everyday Life is an ambitious, well-rounded album by Coldplay.
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sputnik music
It amazes me how Chris can create lyrics so bereft of personification it may as well be said by Microsoft Sam. His willingness to sacrifice any substantial meaning or merit in his lyrics for catchy sounding phrases that flow well is disturbing. This is a trend Chris has done in the past and continues to do on this questionable album.
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INDEPENDENT
Tackling gun control and police brutality, Coldplay’s eighth album is a valiant, if flawed, attempt to break from tradition.
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ES
On their eighth album it’s more about changing the way they present their music. Everyday Life feels less like a unified collection and more like a challenge to see how many different streaming playlists they can appear on — from gospel to country and even those classical piano selections designed to aid exam revision.
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Entertainment
Coldplay navigates existential dread on the catchy, curveball-filled Everyday Life.
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xs noize
It’s a mystery as to where they go from here, but one thing is clear: this adventure of a lifetime is far from over.
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The Hornet
The message of the songs and record as a whole is everyone who is going through something in there life, goes through the same emotions as everyone else.
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the arts desk
A very pleasant listen, but, given the ingredients and what the band are capable of at their best, maddening in terms of what could have been.
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GQ
Everyday Life is their best album to-date, because they've stopped caring what people think.
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MAUI WATCH
It’s a sprawling musical architecture of Coldplay’s rangiest, their most eclectic, deepest and most real release.
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Live 4-Ever
Everyday Life is very likely to confound most people in some way, but on it Martin has at least sought forgiveness not permission before recreating the familiar entity as a partial cabaret.
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New York Post
The sprawling “Everyday Life” really does take you all over the place; “Church” rides the atmospheric rhythmics that the band first employed on 2005’s “X&Y,” while “Trouble in Town” plays like a moody cousin to the “Parachutes” standout “Trouble.”
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Dankanator
Everyday Life is a beautiful touch towards life issues that we all face. The band did a wonderful work at creativity, releasing Sunrise and Sunset at these two times of a day.
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Drew's Reviews
Everyday Life rises a bit from the last two albums thanks to a handful of dominate songs but much of this double album sounds like B-sides and demos left on the cutting room floor.
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spectrum pulse
I don't even know what I can say to Coldplay anymore, because I expect to be in the minority with this opinion and I don't expect them to change. Instead, they remain the quintessential silent majority act, with this album cementing it - take that as you will.
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NO Ripcord
Everyday Life may not be able to reach the peaks of Coldplay’s work in the 2000s or have the discipline of the mostly-minimalist Ghost Stories, but it shows a level of creativity, imagination and sheer enjoyment in making music that felt like it had been lost.
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Financial Times
The band balance contradictory urges by both playing it safe and taking risks on a record of two halves.
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black boy bulletin
Everyday Life is another commendable effort from Coldplay. They took some impressive risks that pushed their classic sound to new heights despite the shortcomings of some of the lyricism.
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stereoboard.com
It may be increased maturity, the longer format or even the inescapable political divisions that have risen up in the past five years. Whatever the alchemy, when it works, it's hard to see a band who do this stuff better than Coldplay.
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Cryptic Rock
Everyday Life marks their eighth overall studio album. Broken in two parts, Part One opens with the short Baroque Pop instrumental “Sunrise”—an apt introductory to the alluring swagger of the Enigma-tic Dance Pop track “Church.” Martin’s blue-silk voice is unmistakably the band’s beloved trademark.
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Daily Nebraskan
Everyday Life’ offers worldly perspective on deep issues.
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411 Mania
For all their imperfections and nearly-but-not quite experimentation, Everyday Life is the most thrilling, thoughtful and humane record Coldplay have released for at least a decade.
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UNDER THE RADAR
The fact that Coldplay have already announced a new album hot on the heels of this release suggests they even realize the mistake that is Everyday Life.
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MUSIC TAP
Still, on the whole, Everyday Life finds Coldplay once again putting in the work, less interested in trendjacking and more in-tune with focusing on a legacy. If that is pretension, then maybe other bands I could mention ought to try it out sometime.
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The Times
This is Coldplay’s best album for a decade.
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the courier
is notably more experimental than the music with which they are normally associated.
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The Edge
The instrumental behind this track is splendid; it sounds almost magical. I get Sigur Rós and Frozen score vibes. As such, I’m instantly disappointed when Chris Martin starts singing over it. I don’t feel the tempo of the vocals matches the instrumentation, but that is my universal criticism of Coldplay.
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Thomas Bleach
This whole record had me thinking things that I didn’t want to think about them as they are a band who have “legendary” status in the current musical climate and it’s painful to see them just flatline so hardcore with the majority of this record.
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Vinyl Chapters
A perfectly balanced and impressively adaptable record that seeks to evolve with each listen.
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Brooklyn Vegen
You should probably know it’s the most appealing Coldplay album in a long time.
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Soundbite Reviews
This album is a combination of the things I both like and dislike about Coldplay but it’s also an album I think people need to make their own mind up about just because of how different and unique it is so I would encourage people to listen too the album just because of how creative it can be at times.
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