So I haven't listened to Mylo Xyloto a TON, but I have listened enough to make an arbitrary and meaningless conclusion about it....
Not the best.
It's not that Mylo Xyloto is the worst album ever, it's just the worst Coldplay album ever. While Coldplay used to be straight up Brit-alt-rock, they have seemed to transform into some sort of pop-rock hybrid, and it's maddening. The album is full of terrible sounding synth noises, things you are used to in bands like Angels and Airwaves, but feels extremely out of place on a Coldplay album. This keyboard synth garbage permeates almost every song, and it drives me crazy. Several songs avoid this annoying and crappy pop influence, my favorite being "Paradise" and I also enjoy "Us Against the World" Not that there isn't any enjoyment to be had from the other songs, they just aren't for me I guess.
So yeah, I'm not impressed. My favorite Coldplay album is A Rush of Blood to the Head it's darker, more meaningful and more heartfelt that Mylo Xyloto. But the worst part of Mylo isn't the crappy synth, but the lyrics and writing is also pretty terrible. Many of the songs seem random and poppy, not about meaningful topics or love, but just crap.
And then there's Rihanna.
Man.
Oh well, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends had an epic rolling and wondrous scale, with a cool and novel French revolution theme. Mylo Xyloto seems to be a bad ecstasy experience. They can't all be winners I suppose.
4/10
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