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Post by Manualex on Oct 23, 2019 19:16:46 GMT -5
Any ideas as to who’s produced the album? Timbaland or someone he's close to is involved in the album |
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Post by World71R on Oct 23, 2019 22:46:51 GMT -5
Any ideas as to who’s produced the album? Timbaland or someone he's close to is involved in the album For some context, Angel Lopez is a Latin music producer who has produced house and salsa music while Fede Vindver is a songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with artists like Lauryn Hill and Ricky Martin. This production trio sounds very interesting and combined with Coldplay & what they're going for with the aesthetic they're putting out so far, I'm curious as to how this is going to turn out. We'll get our first glimpse tomorrow! |
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Post by igotflair on Oct 24, 2019 1:24:41 GMT -5
In the Welsh Post:  |
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Post by The Escapist on Oct 24, 2019 3:08:12 GMT -5
Likely single artwork...  Also the Arabic in the tracklist is "Bani Adam", translating to Children of Adam but meaning humanity. It's the title of a poem which says that if you don't help others, then you don't deserve the title of "human". Also, I hope you all like French. This release is going to get the people talking. |
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Post by Lennon2217 on Oct 24, 2019 11:18:01 GMT -5
Jo Whiley heard the album. Says it’s like nothing they’ve ever done before. I got a feeling it’s gonna be very much like AHFOD with less collabs.
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Post by chamu on Oct 24, 2019 11:29:33 GMT -5
I really like Arabesque. Definitely, different to AHFOD, with a looong saxo solo
Orphans is more Coldplay by numbers...
I have a wetransfer link for the songs...but i think i cannot post it here
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Post by The Escapist on Oct 24, 2019 11:30:58 GMT -5
Jo Whiley heard the album. Says it’s like nothing they’ve ever done before. I got a feeling it’s gonna be very much like AHFOD with less collabs. You've got 5:40 of a new feeling coming your way. Comme deux gouttes d’eau... |
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Post by igotflair on Oct 24, 2019 13:33:32 GMT -5
They’re up!
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Post by World71R on Oct 24, 2019 13:39:22 GMT -5
Orphans sounds very vibrant but in a different sense from MX or AHFOD. It sounds like a combination of the overall sound of the last four albums with a sort of new wave tinge to it. I wish the guitars were turned up a bit more throughout the song since there's good parts but it's very bass-y. It's very vibrant and cool though and there's some dissonance between the lyrics and the music; very inspired, like something I wish U2 was doing these days to tackle World issues for a mass audience. I'd give it a 7.5/10.
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Post by World71R on Oct 24, 2019 13:49:27 GMT -5
Only thing I'm let down by is that there wasn't a big guitar solo after the "Music is the weapon..." part because I was really anticipating it with the way the guitars were building somewhat and the sound landscape was forming, but I do like the way it rises and then falls to the end. The sax solo is nuts as well, who'd have thought that was gonna be a Coldplay song?! (Although HFTW did hint at that in the future, in retrospect) The core of this song sounds like Coldplay in a room as a four-piece band, and then they brought in a horns section to provide the rest. I'd really like to see more songs like this and I get the feeling that the strategy is to give everyone a more-mainstream song and then something else that's a taste of what the record will be like. I get the feeling we'll hear more soundscapes and field noises, really taking the listener to the places that the band is singing about, given Chris's comments about having his phone with him and recording random things at the places he's been at.
This gets a solid 8/10 for me, probably higher with more listens.
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Post by The Invisible Sun on Oct 24, 2019 13:51:41 GMT -5
Orphans sounds like Imagine Dragons wrote it for them.
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Post by The Escapist on Oct 24, 2019 13:52:44 GMT -5
Arabesque. To every single person who said Coldplay had lost it:  |
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Post by The Invisible Sun on Oct 24, 2019 13:56:29 GMT -5
I'm not really feeling either of the tunes to be honest. About what I expected after AHFOD.
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Post by World71R on Oct 24, 2019 13:57:08 GMT -5
Arabesque. To every single person who said Coldplay had lost it: For real!! That build-up at the end and then the sudden drop is nuts. Arabesque is how you do that type of stuff, Birds isn't (even though both are good songs). Damn... I'm excited! |
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Post by lg on Oct 24, 2019 13:58:39 GMT -5
arabesque is half decent, too repetitive it could have been a lot better
not a big fan of orphans but the bass is great
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Post by The Escapist on Oct 24, 2019 14:04:05 GMT -5
Arabesque. To every single person who said Coldplay had lost it: For real!! That build-up at the end and then the sudden drop is nuts. Arabesque is how you do that type of stuff, Birds isn't (even though both are good songs). Damn... I'm excited! It's a stunning track. Easily the most experimental thing they've ever done. All those people who said they were never gonna make anything but bland chart-pop again - like Jose Mourinho, they have nothing to say. Nothing to say. |
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Post by World71R on Oct 24, 2019 14:09:07 GMT -5
For real!! That build-up at the end and then the sudden drop is nuts. Arabesque is how you do that type of stuff, Birds isn't (even though both are good songs). Damn... I'm excited! It's a stunning track. Easily the most experimental thing they've ever done. All those people who said they were never gonna make anything but bland chart-pop again - like Jose Mourinho, they have nothing to say. Nothing to say. Amen. They've listened to the critics and done something that's setting their trajectory in the right direction. Some of us on here even said that AHFOD has become out-of-touch with what happened in the World just a short time after AHFOD's release, but now they're doing an album that sees the band searching for commonalities between peaceful places in the World and war-torn areas, and the people in each place, and using music to bring people together. Orphans may be a vibrant, colorful pop song but it's a song where the narrator talks about two different people, presumably in their youth, dreaming of what a life without war would be like where they can live freely and enjoy themselves. This instantly nullifies the Imagine Dragons comparisons because they wouldn't have the balls to even touch on such a subject. It feels like they're really going back to the old lyrical styles of VLV and MX where the state of the world and its stories are on the band's mind when constructing the songs, and that's what Coldplay really does best. |
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Post by The Escapist on Oct 24, 2019 14:56:44 GMT -5
Rosaleem of the damascene,
yes, she had eyes like the moon -
would have been on the silver screen,
but for the missile monsoon. Her indigo up in heaven today.
Her heart went ba-boom ba-boom, and she said:
"Oh, I wanna know when I can go,
go and get drunk with my friends,
I wanna know when I can go,
go back and be young again".
Baba would go where the flowers grow,
almond and peach trees in bloom,
and he would know just when and what to sow,
so golden and opportune; tulips the colour of honey today.
But the bombs went ba-boom, ba-boom, and he said:
"Oh, I wanna know when I can go,
go and get drunk with my friends,
I wanna know when I can go,
go back and be young again".
Imagine Dragons, is it, aye? 
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Post by mystoryisgory on Oct 24, 2019 15:19:04 GMT -5
Holy fuck, Arabesque is fantastic, isn't it? Sounds absolutely nothing like anything Coldplay should've been capable of after AHFOD. It's almost as if it comes from an another universe where Coldplay only became darker and more inscrutable after VLV, and Mylo thru AHFOD never happened. Fuck yeah, this is the band I fell in love with, this is the Coldplay we deserve.
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Post by The Escapist on Oct 24, 2019 15:28:46 GMT -5
Orphans is a party for all the children who will never be allowed the joy of getting drunk with their friends.
Someone said Noel's second album was stuff you could cry and punch the air to. They were wrong. This is.
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Post by World71R on Oct 24, 2019 15:56:33 GMT -5
Holy fuck, Arabesque is fantastic, isn't it? Sounds absolutely nothing like anything Coldplay should've been capable of after AHFOD. It's almost as if it comes from an another universe where Coldplay only became darker and more inscrutable after VLV, and Mylo thru AHFOD never happened. Fuck yeah, this is the band I fell in love with, this is the Coldplay we deserve.
Some of their upbeat songs are damn good (Hurts Like Heaven, Charlie Brown, Don't Let it Break Your Heart, Adventure of a Lifetime, Up&Up, Birds) but they're really at their best and most inspired when they're scrutinizing something or taking a hard, thoughtful look at the World around them, and they're really doing that with these two new songs. |
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Post by glider on Oct 24, 2019 16:15:58 GMT -5
Fuckin' hell, these sound brilliant. Arabesque doesn't even sound like them, and Orphans sounds like a solid Viva outtake. The difference in quality between this and something like Amazing Day or Something Just Like This Is is night and day.
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Post by violethill on Oct 24, 2019 16:42:33 GMT -5
Lmao.. They’ve done me haven’t they?
Arabesque is the best song they’ve done in 10 years.
If the rest of the album is like these two songs.... I’d forgive them for doing a duet with Arianna Grande.
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Post by Manualex on Oct 24, 2019 16:52:21 GMT -5
Interesting that Arabesque started as a Jam with Eno and Fela Kuti with Coldplay bar Chris 10 years ago. And then Kuti's son and grandkid did their part for the song after this time.
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Post by matt on Oct 24, 2019 16:56:27 GMT -5
Been so sceptical of everything from this band for ages, a real love/hate relationship.... even with latest efforts like ALIENS I never got the ‘experimental’ hype but, hmmmm.......these are brilliant. Like proper good. Pleasantly surprised, very pleasantly surprised. Loving the afrobeat funky vibes on both tunes. Great effort all round.
Not sure what to think now, more puzzled than thrilled as it feels like the Coldplay I’d want, but not expect...so I don’t want to get ahead of myself because for all I know, they’ll pull out a fucking Justin Bieber collaboration tomorrow and single handedly destroy the album like they always do. But it’s two more brilliant tunes to add to the Coldplay playlist,.
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