Coldplay Everyday Life (2 LP)

180g Vinyl Double LP!
Cover Features Foil/Holographic Stamping!
TAS Rated 4/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the April 2020 Issue of The Absolute Sound!
2021 Grammy Award Nominee:
• Album Of The Year: Everyday Life
• Best Recording Package: Everyday Life
Everyday Life is the eighth studio album by British rock band Coldplay. It was released on 22 November 2019 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and Atlantic Records in the United States. It is a double album released as a single CD, with the first half titled Sunrise and the other Sunset. The release coincided with Everyday Life – Live in Jordan, in which performances of each half of the album were live streamed from the Amman Citadel in Jordan, at sunrise and sunset, respectively. Many returning producers and collaborators joined the band's efforts including Rik Simpson, Dan Green, Bill Rahko, Davide Rossi, and Emily Lazar.
Speculation about the album's existence persisted since their previous record, A Head Full of Dreams, as rumours circulated that Coldplay would disband. It is the first album by the band to feature profanity (on the tracks "Trouble in Town", "Arabesque" and "Guns") and is also their second studio album, after Ghost Stories (2014), not to be supported by a major worldwide tour.
Everyday Life received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its experimental alt rock direction, the shift to politically charged lyrics, and varied song styles in contrast to their old roots with albums like Parachutes and Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. However, others felt that the album lacked thematic consistency. Commercially, Everyday Life earned the band their eighth consecutive number-one album on the UK Albums Chart and their seventh top-ten album on the Billboard 200 in the US.
The album was supported by four overall singles: "Orphans" and "Arabesque" in October 2019, "Everyday Life" in November 2019 and "Champion of the World" in February 2020. At the 63rd Grammy Awards the album garnered two nominations: Best Recording Package and Album of the Year, marking the band's second nomination in the latter category and their first since Viva la Vida.
Colplay's 'Everyday Life' album, featuring a vintage looking cover with Foil/Holographic Stamping, contains the singles "Arabesque" and "Orphans.
"It's all about just being human," frontman Chris Martin told Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1. "Every day is great and every day is terrible...It just feels kind of free. There's so much life bursting out on the planet."
"[The album] is our reaction to the perceived negativity that's everywhere. And there is a lot of trouble, but there's also so much positivity and so much great life happening. So in a way, it's just trying to make sense of things, saying what we feel and what we see."
"...This virtual double album offers a range of emotion by splitting songs into distinct Sunrise and Sunset sections. It opens with a contemplative symphonic instrumental titled "Sunrise" and delivers multiple musical styles. Frontman Chris Martin ponders a host of topics ripped from today's headlines - everyday life, if you will. Those include gun control (Guns), police brutality (Trouble In Town), the refugee crisis (Orphans), and the restorative nature of faith (Broken). But Every Day Life also looks at love and friendship. The album offers a global perspective thanks to two Nigerian musicians (Femi Kuti and Tiwa Savage) and a Belgian rapper (Stromae). A call to embrace the family of man, "Arabesque" percolates with Pakistani rhythms, and "When I Need a Friend" is buoyed by a Nigerian choir. Fans of the band's stadium-rock anthems might find Everyday Life challenging, yet this collection of songs is an uplifting balm for troubled times. " - Greg Cahill, The Absolute Sound Magazine, April 2020

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Cover features foil/holographic stamping
• Manufactured at Third Man Pressing in Detroit, MI
• Explicit Content

Selections:

Side A - Sunrise
1. Sunrise
2. Church
3. Trouble In Town
4. Broken
Side B
1. Daddy
6. WOTW/POTP
7. Arabesque
8. When I Need A Friend
Side C - Sunset
1. Guns
2. Orphans
3. Èko
4. Cry Cry Cry
Side D
1. Old Friends
2. Bani Adam
3. Champion Of The World
4. Everyday Life