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Coldplay: Moon Music review – a cloyingly upbeat ride to the heavens
Chris Martin parks his sense of humour as he communes with the stars and sky on the band’s melody-light, feebly produced latest record
One of the reasons Coldplay are the biggest ticket-shifters in rock history is that Martin is an amazing frontman, both for his witty, engaging personality and his heartfelt delivery. All that remains is empty, cloying optimism and too much ingratiating tosh about the stars and the sky and spheres and moons and rainbows and clouds and heaven. But, as on Music of the Spheres(2021), Max Martin’s anaemic production saps the weaker tracks: oodles of generic playlist pop that, apart from the piano ballads, reduce the band’s excellent players to decorative accessories.
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