By Jay Carroll
Staff Writer
One of students’ favorite bands, Coldplay, is releasing a new album on Oct. 24, entitled Mylo Xyloto.
Coldplay has really made a name for itself through many popular songs in the past like “ Speed of Sound”, “Clocks” and “Viva la Vida”. Its new album has its ups and downs, though it has great songs that you can tell are going to become hits and climb pretty high up on some of the music charts like “Billboard Top 100”.
The new song “Paradise” off Mylo Xyloto is the best on the album, and the lyrics to the song are really deep and make the song even better. Students are anxiously awaiting the new release.
The release is receiving a lot of attention because it has been three years since its last album release of Viva la Vida or Death and All his Friends. That album has songs that climbed to No. 1 in both the United States and United Kingdom.
Coldplay hopes the new album will get the same outcome. The album is not perfect, however. “Princess of China” doesn’t really sound like music, it sounds like a bunch of instruments mashed together, and it does not sound good at all. While “Us Against the World” is not that bad, it’s a little slower than the Coldplay everyone is used to, which makes it interesting and it makes the album a little bit better, because the album has more variety.
“Charlie Brown” is a great song; it is a mixture of slow and upbeat. “U.F.O” has very nice acoustics throughout the song, it is and has a good feel to it, and has a nice blend between the background music like the guitar and the lead vocals which makes it unique to the album, unlike “Princess of China”.
“Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” has a techno feel to it, but it works for the song and the band makes it work for the song, the variety to the album is amazing, as there is a little bit of everything, techno, slow songs, fast songs. It’s a huge variety of songs and almost all of them sound good.
It doesn’t matter what people think about it, the album will be a hit and many, many people will buy “Mylo Xyloto”. Coldplay fans everywhere will be anxiously waiting for Oct. 24 to roll around so they can go pick-up the new album. The album will most likely be a top-seller, one because it’s Coldplay and people always buy their albums. Two, because with the exception of two songs it’s one of its best albums and might even be one of the best the group has ever made.
