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Nov 14, 2011Mylo Xyloto proves that Coldplay are quite simply the best pop band in the world, bar none.
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Q MagazineNov 3, 2011Music this uplifting, this inspirational, belongs among the stars. [Dec 2011, p.120]
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Oct 28, 2011Though it is probably not Coldplay's best, it is indeed a memorable listen and another chapter for a band whose place in rock music is firmly cemented.
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MojoNov 3, 2011This is Coldplay getting in, delivering the tune, getting out, influenced by the discipline of cutting-edge R&B but still capable of testing arena acoustics with some supermassive bluster, glitterball lustre and classic Buckland glide'n'twiddle. [Dec 2011, p.46]
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Oct 25, 2011Martin's newest record is a successfully didactic and direct body of work.
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Oct 24, 2011Coldplay's electronic excursions may be more cerebral and less embroiled than those of Thom Yorke's continued influence on Radiohead, but their progress is to be applauded, for this is an excellent album with depths unexplainable within this word count.
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Oct 20, 2011Great pop music with its big heart in the right place.
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Oct 17, 2011Mylo Xyloto may have an oblique title but it's a triumph because the music is anything but.
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Oct 25, 2011It actually sounds like a natural extension of Coldplay's big, radio-friendly sound. It's also Coldplay's most consistently listenable album since 2002's A Rush Of Blood To The Head, though it resembles that album little.
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Nov 28, 2011Mylo Xyloto feels like it was created by an actual rock band, with each player stepping up his game.
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Nov 8, 2011With all the bells and whistles in prominent display, Coldplay may have made their most enjoyable album. I only hope the sourpusses enjoy it.
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Oct 26, 2011Mylo Xyloto is fully realized and instantly revealed on first listen.
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Oct 26, 2011While so many bands at their status revert to bloated contentment or some vague idea of rockist salvation, Mylo Xyloto finds Coldplay successfully continuing to explore the tension of wanting to be one of the best bands in the world and having to settle for being one of the biggest.
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Oct 24, 2011They'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.
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Oct 17, 2011Coldplay rage in their own lovably goofy way.
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Oct 17, 2011Where Viva La Vida showcased Coldplay's sense of adventure, this one feels more eager to please; the sonic detail accrues with such speed that it's like Martin and his mates fear you'll bail if they don't grab you straightaway.
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Nov 1, 2011To Coldplay's credit, amidst the over-production they still manage to reach their quota of flag-waving festival rock songs, some of which could be considered career highlights.
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Nov 7, 2011Producer Brian Eno has guided them towards more expansive instrumentation and bombastic atmosphere, but the center of the music often lacks real heaviness.
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Oct 27, 2011It's wrapped in a confused concept--future lovers (the album title's characters) under siege by some kind of dystopian oppression--but several tunes will surely ignite stadium masses.
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Oct 25, 2011It's a moment of stirring calm amid a sea of blaring showiness, and this well-intended mixed bag, despite its lovely surfaces, could have used more of that variety.
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Oct 25, 2011For an album unabashed in its intimacy, the bigger moments are all that more rattling. Not everything turns a new corner.
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Oct 24, 2011While the melodies on Mylo Xyloto are some of the strongest and most memorable in the band's catalogue, it's the shortcomings in their lyrics that keep Coldplay from packing the kind of emotional wallop their sound really demands.
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Oct 24, 2011It's a bit uplifting, but ultimately insipid.
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Oct 21, 2011Mylo Xyloto does have its unpredictable moments, some of which work more effectively than others.
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Oct 20, 2011Rihanna's appearance aside, Mylo Xyloto is everything you'd expect from a Coldplay album.
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Oct 20, 2011A lot of it just sounds like standard-issue Coldplay, replete with echoing guitars, woah-oh choruses and vocals that signify high drama by slipping into falsetto.
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UncutOct 18, 2011There's no shortage of decent tunes. [Nov 2011, p.83]
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Oct 21, 2011What's missing is the innovation that made Viva La Vida so dynamic.
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Nov 4, 2011The album is not terrible, just not terribly original either.
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Oct 25, 2011Mylo Xyloto feels like the group's mid-life crisis.
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Oct 24, 2011Coldplay has a formula, and formula prevails on Mylo Xyloto despite Eno's presence.
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Oct 24, 2011It's popcorn music, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But trying to dress it up in big concepts only belies the belief that it's somehow lacking, which leads to its undoing.
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Oct 24, 2011It just feels like, once again, Coldplay have done the selfless thing and gone out to protect EMI's share price, and at the end of it remain peering off the edge of a cliff edge, wishing they had the courage to jump.
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Oct 24, 2011Ultimately, Mylo Xyloto feels like a mixed bag of ideas that never really comes together.
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Oct 24, 2011It takes no chances. This is a record that browbeats and bullies you into submission with its sheer massiveness, courtesy of producer Brian Eno.
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Oct 24, 2011Unfortunately, this is the kind of sequel where nothing new is introduced, no great revelations are to be had, and the things that made the previous installment so great are nowhere to be found.
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Oct 21, 2011The results are smoothly pallid even by their standards, the usual modes of exultant melancholy and epic sympathy exacerbated by the earnest thrumming of acoustic guitars that punctuates the familiar piano vamps.
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Oct 24, 2011Every touch of lyrical bitterness is followed by enough sugar to mask the taste, which might be good in the short term but isn't a recipe for long-term health.
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Oct 25, 2011For everything else there's Coldplay: reliable, built to move, and able to run on hot air alone.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 358 out of 487
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Mixed: 84 out of 487
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Negative: 45 out of 487
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