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Post by prissieb on Feb 25, 2014 18:36:56 GMT
I've added a poll!
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LndnSky
Senior Coldplayer
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Post by LndnSky on Feb 25, 2014 18:38:09 GMT
Finally got home to listen to it properly. As I said I took a bathroom break from my lecture, sat on the toilet and listened to it. :P And I LOVE IT! I JUST REALLY REALLY LOVE IT! (sorry, not sorry for caps)  |
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majorminus
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Favourite Coldplay Album: Rush of Blood
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Post by majorminus on Feb 25, 2014 18:38:19 GMT
I... feel disoriented and confused. I don't think I can really say that it's bad/good or awesome/crap, this really is a song that needs to sink in. I love how atmospheric and calm it sounds, and it is catchy (the lyrics I can make out, I mean). At the same time though, the fact that Chris's voice is altered/autotune was used and we don't hear Jonny (or Will, Guy for that matter) at all... That actually bothers/shocks me. Can't really say I absolutely love the video (really trippy omg) but maybe that needs to sink in as well? Really confused. Took the words out of my mouth! For someone who still considers AROBTTH their best work yet and has followed them since, I'm pretty shocked. I don't know what to say or think! I'm not used to hearing absolutely no instruments on a Coldplay song! I guess Will was real serious when he said they have to change to keep themselves interested and well, this is more of a ground-shaking confusing change of genre! The song is damn good though which further proves their brilliance. They could jump to rap and they would probably be better than most rappers out there! My head is fucked I need some time to get around this! |
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Post by howyousawtheworld on Feb 25, 2014 18:40:58 GMT
Hello Coldplayers! Old member of the Coldplaying forum (RIP?) but thought I'd give me thoughts on this new Coldplay tune that I was pleasantly surprised to hear was dropped today!
Thank God! I was no fan of MX at all particularly the sugary sweet mainstream pop of PoC and, I'm afraid, Paradise. So imagine my immense surprise at hearing this song! THIS is what I wanted Coldplay to be after Viva La Vida but didn't get. The ambience is beautiful and the direction they've taken Chris's voice is refreshing and a delightful change from his voice in most of the last two albums which was too often drowned out by the production and the need to overdub it to make it heard around the cacophony of noise. It took me just one listen to be delighted by the track. It's dark, atmospheric, moody, tinged with melancholy. It's perfect ambience. Jonny's work is minimal but in my opinion he always was one of the better minimalist guitarists around which means his impact is just as effective in that style as it is on tracks like Major Minus or 1.36.
What Coldplay have done is take the more minimalist approach of their first two albums and draped it in far more ambience and progressive production. Chris seems to have dropped the traditional verse, chorus, verse structure (which will no doubt return on this album I'm sure) and perhaps Guy and his Apparatjik influences have finally come to the fore?
I'm sure that those who have misgivings about it will clamp on to it in the way I have. Maybe you just need to be in that moment of reflection, isolation and deep melancholy for you to realise the brilliance of this track and then you'll realise that it offers you something no other Coldplay song has done. They may well go back to the more 'traditional' Coldplay for the rest of this era but if this is an indicator of the album then I'm already preparing for the best Coldplay album since A Rush of Blood and perhaps the best. For me it's the first 5 star Coldplay track ('song' seems a bit undefined for this piece) I'd give since Cemeteries of London. A stunning success!
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Post by prospector on Feb 25, 2014 18:41:58 GMT
What if Midnight is actually a B-side for a future single? TheY called it just a "new song", and it really doesn't sound commercial at all like a single should be... just a thought
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Post by comicforce on Feb 25, 2014 18:42:48 GMT
It's actually giving me goosebumps.. the more I listen. I think I love it.
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Post by jeremyy on Feb 25, 2014 18:42:53 GMT
someone on Facebook posted Midnight lyrics: In the darkness before the dawn In the swelling of the storm When I'm rolling with (indecipherable word) and hope is gone Leave a light, a light on Millions are miles from home In the swelling swimming on When I'm rolling with the thunder (indecipherable phrase) Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on In the darkness before the dawn In the darkness before the dawn Leave a light, a light on Leave a light, a light on I don't know if they are 100% true, I can't understand most of the parts  |
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Post by prospector on Feb 25, 2014 18:44:31 GMT
Also, this sounds like a Hopkins-Coldpay colaboration
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barbamama
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Or Anita
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Post by barbamama on Feb 25, 2014 18:51:29 GMT
It was released at Midnight - Ulan Bator-time. There is a small Deutch Flag-link on www.Coldplay.com with some info. |
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Post by prissieb on Feb 25, 2014 18:54:35 GMT
After a few listens, I really love this song.
I think it's catchy and loverly. The sounds are good and it's something completly different.
Good to hear they are experimenting (again). A lot of their early songs also needed a few listens before it grabbed me.
The only thing I think is a shame: the twist in Chris' beautiful voice.
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jovianthunder
Senior Coldplayer
A.k.a Caius
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Favorite Coldplay Member: Jonny
Favourite Coldplay Album: MX
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Post by jovianthunder on Feb 25, 2014 18:58:11 GMT
I like it, especially the ambient and atmospheric sound to it (which I've grown to love in the past few months). There are a few things I'd do differently with some of the notes and vocal sounds, but would probably suck with because I'm not a "pro". I wouldn't jump the gun and say this is what the whole next album would sound like, but I can expect at least a few similar tracks. I certainly wouldn't mind a few atmospheric/ambient esque tracks.
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Post by TraceOddity on Feb 25, 2014 19:01:50 GMT
Finally got home to listen to it properly. As I said I took a bathroom break from my lecture, sat on the toilet and listened to it. :P And I LOVE IT! I JUST REALLY REALLY LOVE IT! (sorry, not sorry for caps) Just to be clear, if you heatd an ambient waterfall in the song, it Wasn't Coldplay, it was you, lol!  |
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miha
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Post by miha on Feb 25, 2014 19:07:34 GMT
One line in the song is 'When I'm rolling with the punches...'
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LndnSky
Senior Coldplayer
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Post by LndnSky on Feb 25, 2014 19:07:43 GMT
Finally got home to listen to it properly. As I said I took a bathroom break from my lecture, sat on the toilet and listened to it. :P And I LOVE IT! I JUST REALLY REALLY LOVE IT! (sorry, not sorry for caps) Just to be clear, if you heatd an ambient waterfall in the song, it Wasn't Coldplay, it was you, lol! hahahahhaahha I liked it.... And it was Coldplay not me. |
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Post by jeremyy on Feb 25, 2014 19:08:31 GMT
NME review:
Can Coldplay Reinvent Themselves As Icy Electronic Experimentalists? New Track 'Midnight' Reviewed
Posted on 25 Feb 14  It’s happened – Coldplay have finally made the dive into icy electronic experimentalism they’ve long threatened to. A brand new track ‘Midnight’ – expected to appear on their sixth studio album, rumoured for release later this year – appeared online today (February 25), trading their usual stadium histrionics for fluttering synths and a cool autotuned croon from Chris Martin. It whispers in and out of focus like breath on a crisp wintry morning, rightly drawing comparison to Bon Iver. The suspicion is, were this a new Justin Vernon single, the internet would be losing its collective s**t right now. Featuring production from Mercury Prize nominee Jon Hopkins, who reigns in the warped electronic blitz of his solo work for something sparser here, it’s the sound of an arena-dwelling band who’ve flirted with a darker, button-pushing future finally going for it with both feet. The band themselves have admitted they'd previously worried too much about the response - Chris Martin referred to having a “suicidal” fear fans would turn on him after the dimly more experimental ‘Mylo Xyloto’, produced by Brian Eno, in a 2011 interview. Now, they've finally thrown those shackles off. Where the future lies for Coldplay – whether 'Midnight''s more out-there sonics will spill out into the rest of their new material, and whether their new album will prove enough of a departure for those who lump them in with 'safe' BBC Radio 2 fodder, I don't know - but for the first time in a while when it comes to Chris Martin and co, I'm really excited to find out. link
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