Midnight

I LOVE IT. It sounds new for them, it's fresh, it's bold. I love when artists take risks and they are so talented. This is better than what I expected. I love this dark electronic sound.

Ok, first of all, I'm super hyped.

Secondly, guys, seriously, stop complaining about the auto-tune. There are places where auto-tune shows a lack of skill and creativity (as if to hide the fact that a particular singer isn't actually that great at singing--ahem, see every Disney star, ever), and there are other moments, where auto-tune is a decision made by the artist to help build on the overall sound that is in the instrumental. Think of Chris's voice as a fourth instrument. He's not tarnishing the song, or doing a disservice to the fans if he uses auto-tune. And besides, it fits with the obvious electronic nature of the song.

On first listen, I was confused.... I mean, it never really built up to anything and the song had no resolve. But that's GOOD. Coldplay's music is much to predictable, as far as song structure is concerned. I'm glad that this song didn't have any obvious, loud climax, just for the sake of making it more exciting or uplifting (ie Atlas).

Do I like the song? I have NO IDEA. But I love what they're doing so far. Restraint. Restraint is what I'm looking for in LP6. That way, when there actually is an explosive moment, it'll mean more.

I'm seeing really strong influences in this song. I'm feeling some Radiohead, Avicii, Bon Iver, and XXYYXX. The latter artist, by the way, was featured in one of Chris's tweets about a year ago when he shared "what he was listening to."

If Midnight is a major indicator of where LP6 is going, I'd say I'm pretty impressed because this, I feel, is true experimentation. We thought MX was experimental.... no no no. THIS is experimenting, Coldplay. Cudos.

I really hope this is the case, Midnight is decent, but too ambient to be the first single. 

I love the dark-ambient quality to the song, but I'm still not digging the auto-tuned tone to Chris' voice, (though I don't mind it nearly as much as other artists, probably because it's Chris haha). I totally agree with your point about restraint though. I think they really went overboard on MX with all the group choruses and explosive endings. And yeah, THIS is definitely Coldplay experimenting, MX was more Coldplay becoming radio-friendly haha

Sorry for shamelessly self-bumping my own post, but here's what I heard :P

OMG

Ok so my first impression of the song is that it's the perfect night time roadtrip song. Like omg. Yes.

I love love the music. It is beautiful. I can't work out all the lyrics yet but I really like "Leave the light, the light on". I think it's really bold of them to release this as a first track (maybe not an actual single), as a first taste of LP6. Their first release always shows how amazingly capable they are of reinventing themselves. That's what they're saying here. Damn, Jon Hopkins and Coldplay, such collaboration always give great results it seems!
For those who don't like it and might be worried of not enjoying the album: don't panic! I highly doubt this reflects the sound of the full album. I see it as an intro or perhaps the last track. Or a transition. But I don't think the whole album will sound like that. I really like the track, it's beautiful, but as it was pointed out, it is quite ambient. LP6 won't be a full-on ambient album.

Time to write at least an attempt to a review.

From the first listen I really liked it. Its very different from everything in MX era and that is the first reason why I liked it so much. To me its really dark with some twisted light to it. I think Guy is finally doing something he likes, cause it has an Apparatjik sound to it.
I'm really happy that they moved from pop, I was sooo afraid that this might go in PoC direction and that would be it for me. Although its not really radio friendly song and might not actually be a single I hope that the album will go somewhere in this direction. Dark, twisted, X&Y-y but something with what the boys are happy about and proud of. But I'm really glad that they are doing something new, and different but again old Coldplay like.