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An uplifting, technicolour dream coat of a song, boasting overblown romantic lyrics like ‘you use your heart as a weapon, and it hurts like heaven.’ It’s the thought that counts.Īlthough their last album ‘Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends’ also had Brian Eno on hand, with ‘MX’ comes a much more assured application of Eno’s expertise. The brief, instrumental opening track ‘Mylo Xyloto’ is a pretty neat introduction, with the trademark Eno-ness draped across their sound here leading onto the second track, ‘Hurts Like Heaven’. Which side of the fence do you stand on? With ‘Mylo Xyloto’ you may find yourself unsure of what the fence was made of in the first place. Others will disagree, stating Coldplay are back with yet another set of drab, faux-emotive stadium-fillers.

Well, due the nature of Coldplay’s music and aesthetic many will say yes, they are back with an innovative explosion of colourful music. They’ve embraced their schoolboy selves and are simply singing songs of love and good cheer, albeit on a grand scale that somehow seems smaller due to the group’s insuppressible niceness.After three years away Coldplay are BACK! “With a bang?”, I hear you ask. Such politeness can verge on the dull - criminally so when they bring Rihanna in for “Princess of China,” a duet so toothless she may as well have stayed home - but Mylo Xyloto has a leg up on other Coldplay records for this simple reason: they’re no longer attempting to mimic U2's portentous piety. Eno's echoes and ambience - the only things that still mark Coldplay as anything resembling progressive - positively sparkle when they meet the band’s bright, chipper melodies, yet Coldplay's innate good manners restrain the album, keeping it just this side of a rush of candied pop. Which isn’t to say the band doesn’t drift along on some pleasingly spacy atmospheres conjured by longtime producer Brian Eno: there’s still a veneer of classy disaffection that inevitably dissipates due to the relentless sunniness of Chris Martin and company.

Coldplay finally surrender to their essential good nature on Mylo Xyloto, their fifth album and first to ditch all pretense of brooding melancholia.

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