Chris hinted at the style of the album by saying that the band was trying to make something colourful and uplifting.
In an interview with Jo Whiley in December 2014, Guy Berryman and Jonny Buckland gave a hint as to the difference between A Head Full of Dreams and its predecessor – Buckland called it the "night to the day", comparing the style of Ghost Stories to the expected uplifting theme of A Head Full of Dreams. We’re right in the middle of it”.Ĭhris explained “it’s like the last Harry Potter book, not to say there won’t be another thing one day but its the completion of something”. Well, we’re in the studio and… ermm… well I think I’ll tell you! I haven’t told anyone this, we haven’t told anyone this but we’re making an album called A Head Full of Dreams … and that’s what we’re working on. In an interview with Zane Lowe on 4 December 2014, Chris Martin said the whole group was ‘reinvigorated’ by Ghost Stories and when the subject moved on to touring stadiums, Chris, like previous occasions, said it wouldn’t ‘feel right’ to tour stadiums with Ghost Stories. The album has a markedly different style and sound from its predecessors. It became the band's first album not to debut at number one in the UK after being held off the top spot by Adele's 25, however it topped the chart on 12 February 2016 following exposure from the band's Super Bowl 50 appearance.Ĭoldplay began working on A Head Full of Dreams in the summer of 2014 while they were promoting their sixth album Ghost Stories. The album received generally positive reviews from critics. The album had less of the quiter, somber sound of Ghost Stories and more of the upbeat, uptempo, electropop sound of Mylo Xyloto. This is the band's thrid album in a row to experiment with electronic music. Pinckney's funeral on the track " Kaleidoscope". Coldplay have also revealed that the album features a sample of the Barack Obama singing "Amazing Grace" at Clementa C. The album was produced by Rik Simpson and Stargate. For various songs on the album Coldplay collaborated with Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Tove Lo, Khatia Buniatishvili and Merry Clayton. It is the second album by the band in North America on Atlantic, after Coldplay were transferred from Capitol Records America in 2013. It was released on 4 December 2015 by Parlophone and Atlantic Records, with a markedly different style and sound from its predecessors. All these cameos suit the overarching theme of A Head Full of Dreams - how there's a big, bright, beautiful world just waiting to be discovered if you just open your heart and live a little - and if this message is unabashedly corny, under the stewardship of Chris Martin, Coldplay cheerfully embrace the cheese, ratcheting up both the sparkle and the sentiment so the album feels genuine in its embrace of eternal middle-aged clichés.Released: JanuColdplay records chronology ← PreviousĪ Head Full of Dreams is the seventh studio album by Coldplay. Appropriately, Coldplay invite more than a few guests to help usher them into this brave new world, the showiest being Beyoncé, who overwhelms the band's innate politeness on "Hymn for the Weekend," but Tove Lo eases right into "Fun" and Noel Gallagher amiably allows himself to be swallowed by the gentle wash of guitars and synths. This carpe diem spirit courses throughout A Head Full of Dreams, turning it into a 21st century equivalent of Steve Winwood's Back in the High Life, a divorce record where every end seems like a fresh new beginning. Arriving after the deliberately dour Ghost Stories, this infusion of backbeat and glitz does indeed feel welcome and bold but such determined levity also suggests the gusto of a greying divorcee boogying down on the deck of a cruise ship, determined to seize every bit of life headed his way. He's quite literally having "Fun" on an "Amazing Day," living for the weekend and viewing his impending middle age as nothing so much as the "Adventure of a Lifetime." Coldplay match his optimism by tempering their signature soft focus, pushing themselves toward the light and undergirding the newfound positivity via glittering disco beats and a gossamer electronic sheen. Martin gives away the game with his song titles.
Where Chris Martin spent Ghost Stories in a mournful mood - his sorrow perhaps derived from his divorce to Gwyneth Paltrow or perhaps not it's best not to read too much into the tabloid headlines - the Coldplay leader sees nothing but sunshine and stars on A Head Full of Dreams. Released swiftly after Ghost Stories - just a year and a half, all things considered - A Head Full of Dreams plays like a riposte to that haunted 2014 album.
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