Estelle Clifford: Coldplay - Moon Music

Dubbed the “most ‘Coldplay’ Coldplay album,” Moon Music is the band’s 10th album, and potentially one of their final ones. Chris Martin has confirmed that there’s a concrete plan for two more albums after this, before the band shuts up shop. 

Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the band’s latest release.  

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You've got a love. This is Coldplay. That songs called
All My Love. You instantly recognize the voice of Chris
Martin and it's false a no, don't you. They've got
a new album called Moon Music. As Dale Clifford as
our music reviewer, she's been listening, Hey, hello morning.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's an interesting place to come in on that song there,
because you'd probably think the whole album is some sort
of ballad man at his piano. Yes, and there is
definitely plenty of that in here, but actually there's some
also really big fat bass dance along tracks. They've gone
somewhere different a Coldplay, like they've gone into this space

(01:18):
where they're very synth or piano lead and then orchestral,
which the early days of Coldplayer don't think with that.
So maybe since the uncoupling, you know, like there's been
a transition and the type of music and the messages
I think that Chris Martin wants to share and his music.

(01:39):
So this is this is like a follow up album
because obviously all their songs so far in the last
couple of years have been you know, sky full of Stars,
very space atmosic, and so Moon music follows along that
same kind of theme, right, the two kind of go together,
and it does have a lot of that beautiful, eerie
sort of stuff where it's his voice over a piano

(02:01):
or guitar and then suddenly the strings come in, and
then the organ stra comes in and sometimes that choie
sort of sound and then other times because actually there's
been a critique for a song called we Pray on
this album, and a lot of people are saying it's
too much of a mishmash of styles because suddenly there's, like,
like I said, fat bass, there's hym singing beautifully, there's

(02:24):
like some hip hop kind of fusion together, and it
probably shouldn't work. But for some reason, when it's Chris
Martin offering me that I'm okay with it, I don't
know what it is, I'm like okay. And the overall
arching theme of all of this music is about sharing
the love and being able to just appreciate people's differences
and love that. And I'm not going to knock that

(02:47):
message because I think there needs to be more of
that in this world. There's some dark spaces, you know.
So I think Chris Martin is really trying to find
that positive. It makes me think that a lot of
their live gigs there will be glow sticks and will
be swaying, you know, and think that's what they've done.

(03:08):
I actually, I really want to go to the live
gig with the light up wristband and I don't know.
It just sounds like a really beautiful festival, all inclusive
kind of vibe, and so I think this is what
this music is about. There are some real dance along
tracks you will wiggle along sometimes. I think there's been
some great co lads of voices together. I think he
is one of those artists that plenty of people are

(03:28):
quite happy to work with him, and probably he is
quite happy to work with other people too, because it
opens up the audience for Coldplay. And again, the musicality
is really nice. You look sort of atmospheric and then
this musical stuff and orchestral stuff that comes in. There's
no rush in this album, right, Maybe that's a really
good thing for all of us to take your pace

(03:52):
with it and it's okay. Maybe even part way through
their next live set, we'll have all dropped down and
do down with dog and have some yoga stretching. Like
I couldn't help but think that this morning when I
was listening to a.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, so I'm like saying earlier, I just adore Cold
Place first two probably three albums. I love the first
two albums, the third one I like a lot. Yeah
after that, I mean, I don't have a problem with
the kind of stadium rock sound. Yeah, yeah, I don't
like it as much as I like their first albums.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, I think that's the thing was it was a
guy and his guitar who could then play a lot
of other instruments, but it had that more rock probably
sound to it, and a little bit more worldly and
not just this kind of peace loving, tree hugging kind
of Yeah. I mean, they're very more more synth pop
I think now than they are probably any sort of
rock fusion. Yes, right, yeah, their element's gone, and so

(04:45):
I guess that's the original stuff that people really love
them for. It's what got them on all the charts,
right and global recognition. Yes, yeah, this is just the evolution.
I mean, I wonder if they'll go back there at
some stage and go we've done this peaceful vibe.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah you can.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Rock, you know, like yeah yeah, like maybe you can
go back into a bit more of that some loud guitar.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, yeah, it's just a bit of a just a
bit of a max. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
It makes me think, how do they do this album live?
Because it is more of that sort of trippy, cool,
low key almost kind of sound. So maybe they just
have to fuse in the rock.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah. Certainly, there's certainly talented musicians, is no doubt about it.
I think I think he's classically trained.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
From that and you can tell when you hear all
the layering that they do, and in particular in this album,
it's actually very beautiful. So having listen to some of
that stuff and appreciate the fact that I think he's
maybe showcasing some of the other side, but like you say,
for the last probably decade he's sat there, so is
there a return And also of those other band members

(05:50):
also going, hey, let's be and cup the sound.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah right, okay, you give it.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
It's an eight out of ten. Nice.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, it's going to be when they're in New Zealand.
Thank you so much. We'll have a couple of minutes
col Ca, You're so that is a stale Clifford our
music reviewer more cold Play for You will play in
one of the songs from the new album in a
few minutes eight to twelve.

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