{"id":5766,"date":"2024-10-06T18:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T23:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2025-05-17T17:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:44:14","slug":"coldplay-moon-music-a-piece-of-2021s-music-of-the-spheres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5766","title":{"rendered":"Coldplay “Moon Music A Piece Of 2021\u2019s Music Of The Spheres”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coldplay has been fusing together stadium rock with intricate descriptions of emotion for more than a quarter century, and their 10th album opens with a grand overture that sets the listener up for an uplifting experience. But Moon Music\u2019s title track upends expectations quickly, dissolving into a simple piano melody that refracts and folds in on itself until lead vocalist Chris Martin breaks the spell.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce upon a time I tried to get myself together\/Be more like the sky and welcome every kind of weather,\u201d Martin muses in a singsong cadence, picking apart his insecurities and foibles until he finally asks, \u201cIs anyone out there? I just need a friend,\u201d as the instruments backing him melt into a puddle. The show of vulnerability is a startling opening, but being so open felt right for the multi-hyphenate Martin. \u201cWith \u2018MOON MUSiC,\u2019\u201d Martin tells Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe, \u201cI felt like, \u2018Well, what if I just really told how I feel every day?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point in their career, closer to the end of their run than not (more on that in a moment), Coldplay has broken up the cycle by touring continuously while making and releasing new music rather than subjecting themselves to predictable album-tour cycles. The band considers Moon Music to be of a piece with 2021\u2019s Music of the Spheres rather than another era. \u201cI quite like this way of working where you don\u2019t have to attach albums to tours and they don\u2019t have to be these things that start and stop,\u201d says bassist Guy Berryman. \u201cIt\u2019s quite nice having the fluidity of what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moon Music, like the satellite it\u2019s named after, dips in and out of different phases while still holding fast to Coldplay\u2019s hooky, thoughtful core\u2014appropriate for an album that\u2019s largely about remaining true to oneself.<\/p>\n

\u201cJUPiTER\u201d is a tale of self-acceptance that opens with Martin in folkie mode, with more voices and instruments coming in as the titular character begins to feel comfortable in her own skin.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI love who I love,\u201d Martin and a choir sing in call-and-response mode on the chorus, and the music grows more ecstatic as Jupiter\u2019s story grows more jubilant. The gorgeously assembled \u201c🌈,\u201d meanwhile, incorporates the late Maya Angelou singing the spiritual \u201cGod Put a Rainbow in the Clouds.\u201d \u201cYou have to accept all your colors and all the colors of other people\u2014literally and metaphorically,\u201d says Martin. \u201cOnce you accept all those colors, then you can be yourself, and then you can let everyone else be themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coldplay\u2019s and Martin\u2019s flirtations with the dance floor over the years have resulted in some of their biggest hits, and Moon Music finds salvation in different eras of clubbing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAETERNA\u201d brings the band back to the rave, its stretched-out guitars and galloping rhythms framing Martin\u2019s exhortations to \u201cfeel it flow.\u201d The duet with Nigerian upstart Ayra Starr \u201cGOOD FEELiNGS\u201d drops by the disco, while \u201cfeelslikeimfallinginlove\u201d hearkens back to Coldplay\u2019s grandest pop triumphs, its fist-pumping chorus getting energy from the romantic sentiments Martin\u2019s singing about.<\/p>\n

Much has been made of Martin\u2019s insisting that Coldplay is going to call it quits after album 12. (\u201cHaving that limit means that the quality control is so high right now that for a song to make it is almost impossible, which is great,\u201d he explains.) But Martin wants Coldplay\u2019s listeners to experience Moon Music as a representation of where he and his bandmates are in this dizzying moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our manifesto, or my way of looking at things right now,\u201d says Martin. \u201cIn terms of how to continue, how to not give up, how to accept reality, not run away from it, not hate anybody\u2014even in the midst of always being filled with so many difficult emotions. And it\u2019s with Max Martin: He made sure that it\u2019s really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zane Lowe – Apple Music<\/p>\n

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