How did these boring Brits manage to make a single amazing album well into their career of making soft schlock?

How did these boring Brits manage to make a single amazing album well into their career of making soft schlock?

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they're capable of making good music but often choose not to

Not even the best Colplay album.

If this album didn't have Violet Hill it wouldn't be that good

Chinese Sleep Chant is the best song they ever did.

If this was released by some random indie band it would be hailed as a masterpiece. Because it's Coldplay everyone dismisses it.

It still holds up incredibly well and you wouldn't think it's 10 years old.

It's their only good album. The rest of their stuff is very bland tepid shite, but this one is at least a 7/10 or more

For me it's Lovers in Japan

This. Eno is hit and miss as fuck. Or, more to the point, he tries real hard to transform every single band into the Talking Heads, and this one time it actually worked.

man i really overlooked this record
this is fantastic

Genuinely one of the only times radio pop normies were in the right.

The ending of Strawberry Swing is very beautiful

I think after they made Viva they got dishearten that everyone hated on it and said fuck it we're not going to make any serious albums anymore. That's why they've released nothing but low effort garbage after that.

This is literally their most staid, boring, and unoriginal album. Jesus fuck.

Death and all of his friends is actually quite good.

Coldplay sucks. The only good thing here is Eno's work.

Eno

it's a shame they reverted to making the worst poptimist trash of their career after Prospekt's March, I wish they'd finished some of the unreleased/unfinished tracks from this album's sessions like Famous Old Painters, Solid Ground and their version of Lukas

Hated it? At the time all I remember is people gushing over what an experimental record it was for such a mainstream band and what an improvement it was over X&Y. Even the b-sides are gold.

The live album is brilliant too. Wish we got a live version of Chinese Sleep Chant.
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His stuff with James is underrated

Chinese Sleep Chant is the best Coldplay song ever

Basically this

i liked this bad 15 years ago

this, and it's so depressing too
according to one of the studio engineers for the Mylo Xyloto sessions, they had a 20 mins approx.-long semi-orchestral piece called 'Car Kids' that could have stood against Muse's Exogenesis Symphony but they scrapped it halfway through along with several other key songs. Talking of which, Muse also fall into this category when you look at the harsh prog-pop of their first two albums and what they've become throughout this decade. What a terrible fucking shame.

But this is a really mediocre album

Literally the other way round, everyone pretends it's great because "omg coldplay doing le real genres xD" when if it was released by an artist who was already known for that type of music it would be correctly regarded as a mediocre release.

It's just like how everyone shit themselves over Paramore's weak attempt at post-rock and that "prog pop" song or whatever it was by that guy from One Direction