"We are only going to do 12 proper albums, and that's real," Martin told Apple Music's Zane Lowe earlier this week. "It's really important that we have that limit. Having that limit means that the quality control is so high right now, and for a song to make it, it's almost impossible, which is great. And so where we could be kind of coasting, we're trying to improve."
"Moon Music," though, will hardly be seen as an improvement over classic Coldplay albums such as 2000's 'Parachutes,' 2002's 'A Rush of Blood to the Head' and 2008's 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends.' It's a tale of two - or possibly even three - Coldplays.
You can hear that Coldplay on the title track that opens the album with a sweeping orchestral grandeur that gives way to moody piano balladry. It feels like it's meant to tell you that you are going on some type of journey - maybe to the moon? - with prog-rock goals that nod to Pink Floyd: 'Maybe I'm just crazy/I should just be a brick in the wall,' sings Martin at his most melancholic.
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