MYLO XYLOTO
| Coldplay
MYLO XYLOTO
Mylo Xyloto is the fifth studio album by British rock band Coldplay. It was first released on 19 October 2011, by EMI Music Japan, and in other countries beginning on 21 October by Parlophone; it was later released on 25 October in the United States, by Capitol Records. -WIKIPEDIA
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RollingStone
Oddly enough, the best moments are darker ones.
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billboard
Coldplay have become the masters of throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks.
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The Guardian
Mylo Xyloto is a concept album complete with a short filmic overture.
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Pitchfork
They maintain their stadium status grandeur while subtly challenging preconceptions.
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CoS
Mylo Xyloto is a clustered collection of ideas and themes. It’s almost the antithesis of their previous work.
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BBC
Mylo Xyloto may have an oblique title but it’s a triumph because the music is anything but.
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The Washington Post
The new album is sometimes dull but is mostly just fine.
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The Telegraph
Big-gesture music that aims directly at the heart.
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HUFFPOST
Manages to simultaneously draw in a new crowd and not alienate Coldplay’s loyal fans.
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IGN
The result is a glorious, effervescent powerhouse of a record.
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ALL MUSIC
Ditch all pretense of brooding melancholia.
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POPCRUSH
The record reminds us why many consider the Brits to be one of the best bands in the world.
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Digital Spy
Hip-hop melodies and day-glo beats make up their glossiest album to date.
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AV/MUSIC
Coldplay is part of a dying breed: rock bands that can sell out stadiums.
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Pretty Much Amazing
Is a strange mix of sincere reflection and aesthetic pleasure.
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benzinga
I was quite impressed with this album.
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Crikey
Rushes to engage with prominent synth-laden pop hooks.
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SLANT
The melodies on Mylo Xyloto are some of the strongest and most memorable in the band’s catalogue.
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Los Angeles Times
Every touch of lyrical bitterness is followed by enough sugar to mask the taste.
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sputnik music
Give Coldplay credit for their waterfalls.
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yaa
Wakes your ears up from their slumber with a transcendental surge of fresh air and brings forth a feeling of innocence and all the while captivating your senses.
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paste
The formula turns out to be a bit wonky.
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Modern Rock Review
Out of the five albums they have made to date it would rank somewhere near the bottom.
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musicOHM
They’re consistent, and for those who want another dose of warm, cosy fluff, this will do the trick.
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INDEPENDENT
This is a record that browbeats and bullies you into submission with its sheer massiveness.
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TIME
Technically it’s beautiful and has a few gems.
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NPR
It may not win over all those haters, but that shouldn't stop it from selling a gazillion copies.
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MUSIC trajectory
They have a ton of potential but can they ever put it together for one great album?
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Chicago Tribune
U.K. quartet plays it safe.
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The CT
A passionate effort full of complex symphonic parts and pretty pianos.
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prefix
Coldplay remain an eminently listenable, catchy band.
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Now It's On
An abysmal mess.
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The Young Folks
Even though the album ends on a good note, and it could be considered overall an upbeat and uplifting record, feeling more intimate than other albums but lyrically it didn’t do it for me.
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SPIN
This one feels more eager to please.
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Ranting About Music
When bands play with electropop and R&B, usually the experiments fail, but here they succeed.
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LUDDITE STEREO
Watching Coldplay descend this deeply into a vapid pop abyss is painful.
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neon tommy
A feel-good, pop-rock album with a unique twist only they can add.
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MTV
Mylo Xyloto bursts with stadium-sized ambition and colossal tunes.
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QRO
With their fifth and latest album, Mylo Xyloto, they are the catchy and romantic Coldplay many know and love.
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Daily News
Coldplay releases loudest, hardest, fastest album yet.
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Daily Star
A whole heap of fun.
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WBEZ91.5 Chicago
Brian Eno, for the second time ’round with these goobers, is the pitifully wasted genius whose “enhancements” only join with the other pretensions to lessen the minor pleasures.
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The Oxford Student
Coldplay deserve credit for at least attempting to innovate their music and provide the record buying public with something different.
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People
global domination will continue.
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nzherald
You have to hand it to Coldplay for continually finding messages that connect with the masses.
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Darien Neirad
Coolest Album of the Decade.
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the charlatan
Individually, the songs are all right, but together they make a stunning piece of musical art.
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The Downey Legend
The band’s ability to experiment with new sounds and emotions while still pertaining to their love for self-expression has fans new and old finding appeal in this album.
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Strange Horizons
Every box in the checklist of everything Coldplay fans love about Coldplay ticked.
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RTE
Mylo Xyloto does live up its exotic title with a hyperactive and zesty technicolor sound that comes as sweet relief after the grim trudge of Viva La Vida.
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The Daily Californian
The ebb and flow of the sound is seen through the undulation between loud upbeat songs and soft slow songs.
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The Stanford Daily
Coldplay borders on cliché in their metaphors in “Mylo,” but more often than not, the songs are too over-produced to notice, and in the right places, they’re spot-on.
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EXPRESS
If you’re already a Coldplay fan you’ll be more than happy with this little lot. If you’re not, this is probably not the place to start.
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The New York Times
Brings some new colors to the Coldplay palette.
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The Christian Century
Mylo Xyloto strives to be melodic and grandiose, thoughtful and commercial, a big seller but not a sellout.
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We Got This Covered
This concept record is a mind-blowing mix of genre and storytelling that is both classically Coldplay and yet fresh and innovative.
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The Wrap
Coldplay Retreats to a Lofty Comfort Zone.
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The Dalhousie Gazette
It’s certainly not the best Coldplay album to come out in awhile, but it’s definitely not the worst either.
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The Waking
Anyone willing to let go of their musical inhibitions will be delighted with the bold and vivacious spirit of this album.
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Austin Girl Music Guide
Mylo Xyloto is bracing and vivid, not overproduced, and balances delicacy and bombast with a steady, assured hand.
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Scorpio Stories
This is Coldplay doing what Coldplay do well. It’s not a revolutionary album, but it certainly is a damn good one.
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cherwell.org
The album delivers what it promises – a series of polished, if predictable, pop tunes.
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FACES ON THE RADIO
It’s a 14-song album that will be beloved by NPR-listening, minivan-driving soccer moms, by heart-on-sleeve teenage boys and girls alike, and by that friend who “loves all kinds of music.
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ALL NOISE
The common theme on Mylo Xyloto is one of complete unoriginality.
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