I don't like Mylo Xyloto because for the major part, I don't think the songs are any good. It's not the modern electro-dance production that ruins it (although that album is terribly produced and heavily bloated), it is the average songs, and Chris Martin's vocals (never the loudest singer) are drowned out and guitar riffs are buried (e.g. the massive sell out Princess of China, which take Rihanna off it is a decent tune) under gratuitous 'woahs'.

A Sky Full of Stars is a brilliant pop song though. It's produced fine and Chris Martin's vocal is one of the best ever. I feel this is the type of song they tried to achieve on Mylo Xyloto but continually fell short.

There's not a bad song on the album. I'm pleasantly surprised by the whole album.

I suppose, but I just can't get into that song. At least after it you get O, the best song on Ghost Stories, brilliant stuff.

They have sucked me in again with this album! Superb stuff...in the right situation.

Moving To Mars is the best thing about Mylo Xyloto.

Okay, I've listened to it a few times. It is a decent album certainly better than their last but it doesn't really reach the highs that MX did, or X & Y for that matter. A Sky Full of Stars is a nice sugar rush but I can't listen to it more than 1 or 2 time in a row, it would have fit a lot better on their pervious album but I understand that they needed a festival or pop song on this album. Martin's melodies and vocals carry it well and I guess Avicii could have been more in your face with the techno stuff but it is pretty restrained and it complements Coldplay decently.

The production is superb but a good amount of the songs don't really engage or grip me. The idea of Coldplay trying to be deep/complex (musically or lyrically) at this point is sort of comical. The problem with the production is that you hear Martin's shitty lyrics a lot more, but he does have a great voice and a superb talent with melody.

O is the best song on the album but Always In My Head isn't too far behind. Always In My Head is probably the best song that combines Coldplay's natural/classic songwriting with these new sounds. It sounds familiar but fresh.

Oceans and Magic are nice soundscapes that are decent in songwriting department. Oceans drags at the end though, probably because they had to find some way to lead or build into the wildcard that is A Sky Full Of Stars. Throwing or drenching songs in reverb/delay/atmospherics is really one of the cheapest production techniques out there in my opinion. Yeah, it is nice to listen to but it is really just pretty noise that means nothing, could have reduced it there.

Magic is okay. It is nice within the context of the album but I don't think I'll ever put it on. The rest are just kinda bland for me at least right now.

Ink is something that I don't ever want to hear again though. Really horrible. Up there with some of the shittiest songs that they have done.

It is a nice back to earth album from them. This album had to come out at some point in their career. It will be interesting to see where they go next. It is an okay album that plays nicely all the way through but oddly enough it probably has the least number of truly great Coldplay songs on it. It doesn't offend like MX but it also doesn't engage like the rest of their catalog does. The songs sound better in the context of the album and it is a nice album experience, but I don't know how much I will feel compelled to play it because it is a bit eh. It isn't a singles album at all but only a few songs really shine. It's something I might throw on during a late night walk.

If I had to rank their catalog:
Parachutes - 9/10
A Rush Of Blood to the Head - 9/10
X & Y - 5.5/10
Viva La Vida - 8/10
Mylo Xyloto - 4.5/10
Ghost Stories - 6/10

This album shows how important is picking singles before the release. I don't know if this album is any good or not cause i didn't give it a try yet. However good it can be, i was disaffected by these two or three songs i heard and i'm not curious enough what's on it. Is this any good ?

To me, Mylo Xyloto was a good concept of direction in which the band is going and the production was brilliant but it was lacking some solid tunes. It seems like it's the same story with Ghost Stories, right ?

I'll give it a try definitely. As to Mylo Xyloto, i had this period i was listening to this album constantly everyday and those songs you mentioned are really good, i agree, they used to have this freshness when released. Still, something's lackin' there cause i'm not coming back to this album as often as to X&Y or Rush of Blood to the Head for example.

Possibly but it's going to sell bucket loads while SOTSOG did not. Magic and A Sky Full of Stars are already big singles. I think that is what people seem to remember these days anyway. The big singles, not the albums from which they came.

Ghost Stories has grown on me massively.
Great songwriting, incredible production - l like it very much.

Does anybody else get the feeling that Coldplay are about to release another album in early 2015? Such little promotion by the band for Ghost Stories, only 8 tour dates with nothing at all on the horizon. This coming from a band that tours like U2, always massive, always stretching across the globe for months and months. I know the band always spoke about doing a smaller, simple album. Perhaps this was it and another bigger effort is right behind it. They did record many many songs not featured on Ghost Stories. Just a theory....

Wasn't a big Coldplay fan around 5-6 years ago, always liked them but not as much as I do now..I'd probably put them in my top 10.

This album is nothing special imo but it has a few good songs and its pretty relaxing..something Oasis never had