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Coldplay: Moon Music review – ‘live, laugh, love’ in album form

Their 10th album has epic songs that make you feel like you’ve climbed Everest – but they’re undermined by corny lyrics and ​ambient-orchestral waffle

The album then wills that world into existence, filled as it is with affirmations of humanity’s potential, celebrations of non-denominational spirituality, and an almost scrupulous avoidance of politics – an end-of-history utopia where cultural difference is championed but also homogenised into total harmony. There’s acres of pseudo-profound ambient-orchestral waffle on 🌈 (yes, that’s a rainbow emoji for a song title, fellow kids) and plenty of half-ideas worked into pointless codas to make the album feel more grand and album-y. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianGood Feelings sounds like it belongs to a scene in a Trolls movie where our diminutive heroes have reclaimed something called the Joy Matrix from their antagonists – all disco-funk, slap bass, blurts of French touch and U-rated lyrics – but my god it’ll sound good when you’ve double-dropped slices of Colin the Caterpillar cake at a six-year-old’s birthday party (even if it would suit a more boyish or girlish voice than 47-year-old Martin’s).

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