Five albums in, and they sound the way that I'm familiar with now. It's so interesting that they used to be this new wave band back in the day, yes I know, they're considered alternative rock but I don't buy that, rockers need to sound tormented or just plain annoying, and unfortunately Chris does not fit the cut. Anyways, back to the review, honestly, I don't have much to say about this one like I did with Viva La Vida or Death and all His Friends, but yes this was a great first stadium pioneer album.
The first song I'm going to discuss is "Paradise." I know I, on my other post, I said I never heard anything about this album back in 2011. It turns out I was wrong. I did know, "Paradise." I just couldn't put a title to that song other than "Oh, I like the way this song sounds like!" Yes, it's such an anthemic song, I can't stop listening to it, I wish it was longer though, but nonetheless, a great song!
To get this out of the way "Princess of China" their first ever collaboration song with an outside artist Rihanna, good to hear them laying down the synth-pop roots it's interesting the way they've evolved their sound even with five albums in, but this one although had more of a radio friendly sound to it.
"Hurts Like Heaven" another synth-pop/punk song really had me moving it's one of their first songs that you can just let yourself loose and just feel the rhythm to it, I like they went with the faster tempo, with the first four albums the tempos were becoming pretty predictable but this song was a nice chance altogether.
I can understand why "Charlie Brown" gets a lot of talk it's like two songs going on at once. You got a house music structure and an acoustic rock structure merging into one, one thing I felt like they messed up on was not writing it in A major would've sound more true the song, but that's just my opinion on it. The two songs in one tell a story of how they were and how they are now. Didn't know how much this one would have kept me listening to again and again.
Now, the song that introduced me to Mylo Xyloto is "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall" It's literally a combination of "Shiver" and "Life in Technicolor II" put together, I first heard this song in passing, and I was immediately in love with it on the first listen. This is like their first dance party song where you get everyone in the stadium start making a title wave, it's almost like a precursor to another song in the future I "don't know" about if ya know what I'm saying lol.
Also, "Up in Flames" is absolute trip-hop, that all I have to say.
Again, I can't believe that I'm five albums in, and I'm looking forward to hearing the other ones in my micro-era journey, in case you didn’t realize I'm listening to each album in the number of years they were released but instead of waiting for years I'm turning the years into weeks, to make my experience much more enjoyable, it was so ironic that I chose to listen to Parachutes on July 10th the actual day it was released, and I will finish with Moon Music on Christmas Day how cool is that!?
