![]() ![]() Finally, the lazy, ill-perceived view that Coldplay is Chris Martin has some validity. Riddled with heartbreak and self-acceptance, Ghost Stories is also the first LP that truly belongs to Martin. It feels like the album they’ve been wanting to release, albeit the most personal and dark one to date. There’s little idiosyncratic pastoral or religious lyrics to sugarcoat feelings, and hardly any pandering to what people or record labels want. In many ways, it’s also been the emotional path trodden by fans and super-fans alike in the past you might have winced when someone asked who your favourite band is but now you wear your loyalty firmly on your sleeve.įor the first time in the band’s career, Ghost Stories feels the closest to the truth. ![]() Martin used to let these insecurities consume him before concluding they “didn’t make any sense”. Be it Martin as a frontman or the band’s routinely mocked “soft-rock” tendencies, there will always be something - perceived rightly or wrongly - to poke at. If you don’t like or “get” Coldplay, you never will. ![]()
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