CD review “A Head Full of Dreams”: Coldplay are back on stage – t-online.de

Berlin (dpa) – It looks as if wanted Coldplay quickly the previous one, by and displace by sad album “Ghost Stories” from the memory of fans

Only one and a half. years later – twice as fast as usual – sets by the band with “A Head Full of Dreams”. The songs of the now 7. Coldplay album sound again noticeably more cheerful, if this is true for a band that is per se for neat melancholy.

In “Ghost Stories” processed frontman Chris Martin obviously the failure of his marriage with actress Gwyneth Paltrow for a decade. The songs were drowned in melancholy, to the almost too exuberant finale “a sky full of stars”, were hunted in the piano chords of unfettered dance beats.

To accompany the mood of the album went Coldplay for “Ghost Stories” is not on tour, but the studio to record new songs alike. It should be different. He think in music often of colors, Martin said in an interview with the “Wall Street Journal”. “The past album we did was rather kept in silver and blue tones. With this we want to cover the whole spectrum.”

In fact, sounds “A Head Full of Dreams” from the first bar cheerful , Floats With the typical Coldplay mix of guitar and piano, on the Martin’s voice. One immediately recognizes the places where fans will sing along to the choruses – finally available in the coming year a big stadium tour at

Even really melancholy lyrics are driven by a rapid percussion forward, it will take up. For the fourth song, “Everglow” until the first piano ballad comes. Ironically, “Fun” (fun) actually the saddest title of the album, in which it comes to a Beziehungsaus again. But even here it is more a overcame grief: “Did not we have fun,” Martin asks in the chorus, we did not have fun

Colplay had become within a decade from a tip to a successful band? filling stadiums with the mix of melancholy and cutting guitar riffs. The disarming hit “Viva La Vida” made the British in 2008 finally to world stardom. The new album shows once again how much reflects the music of Coldplay’s mood of Chris Martin.

“self-doubt and depression are the same as happiness useful if you can tame them,” said the 38-year-old the “Wall Street Journal”. He now has a new girlfriend, the actress Annabelle Wallis. Her voice is like that of Martins children and also from Gwyneth Paltrow to hear on the album.

Writing is therapy, says Martin. “It is a piece of paper and a pen and wrote twelve minutes long on everything that comes to mind, unedited, uncensored, just to get it out of my head.” Then you should discard the result and was ready at the right post. He also fast for one day a week, because the sense of sharpness and thankful for food and life in general do. “You write a song on a Tuesday morning, after they had cornflakes – and the world is perfect.”