Album Review: Moon Music by Coldplay

ass music Throwing on a new Coldplay album in 2024 and comparing it to their vintage output is an exercise in futility. The omnipresent quartet have long indulged in the art of making bombastic music meant to be blasted in the world's largest stadiums and arenas, and to follow the trend line on the graph of their career is to witness their creative energy slowly surrender to a gaping, vacuous maw. 2021's Music of the Spheres, while maligned by audiences and critics alike, still managed to find redeemability in some of its musical aims, namely through its ambitious and hefty closer "Coloratura".

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Tenth album by Chris Martin and co is something of a damp squib and sees their decline continue A few years ago, there was a rumour that Coldplay were going to stop releasing albums, and just concentrate on being a live act. It made sense – as this year’s headline set at Glastonbury showed, Coldplay know how to put on a spectacular, laser-heavy, crowd-pleasing show. And, as the last few years have proved, they also seem to have forgotten how to write a decent album.

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Kaleidoscopic, cinematic, celestial, as someone who follows the lunar cycles with interest, the tenth studio album from Coldplay was always going to strike the proverbial chord. It's no coincidence that I am writing this today (October 2nd) on both a New Moon and the Libra Solar Eclipse which is all about new beginnings, and confronting change so that we are in the right place, at the right time. Whilst the new is centred around their new album 'Moon Magic', the end is in sight for Coldplay as a recording band who have indicated that after album number 12 , they will retire from recording and will focus solely on touring instead with Chris Martin saying: "The story of our albums ends then".

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