Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto – review

Coldplay had billed their new album as a move into pop. But Alexis Petridis hears the same old band underneathColdplay's follow-up to 2008's biggest-selling album is a curious thing. On the one hand, it aims for a certain ponderous gravitas. Mylo Xyloto is a concept album complete with a short filmic overture, interstitial instrumental pieces called things like A Hopeful Transmission, and recurring lyrical themes, set, as concept albums are legally obliged to be, in a futuristic dystopia: you ca...

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