Coldplay, Everyday Life | Track Review 🎵

Following the release of Everyday Life co-lead singles “Arabesque” and “Orphans,” Coldplay releases the third single, “Everyday Life.”

Following a four-year hiatus between full-length studio albums, Coldplay returns in 2019 with Everyday Life.  Everyday Life serves as the proper follow-up to A Head Full of Dreams, released in 2015.  The eighth studio album by Chris Martin and company is a double album, comprised of ‘Sunrise’ (eight tracks) and ‘Sunset’ (eight tracks).  Initially, the Grammy-winning British alternative collective released a single from each disc – “Arabesque”, the penultimate cut from ‘Sunrise’ and “Orphans”, the second track (10^th overall) from ‘Sunset.’ Following those brilliant co-lead singles, Martin and company issued the title track, “Everyday Life.”

“‘Cause everyone hurts / Everyone cries / Everyone tells each other all kinds of lies / Everyone falls / Everybody dreams and doubts / Got to keep dancing when the lights go out.” Sigh, what thoughtfulness and wisdom Chris Martin! “Everyday Life” appears as the eighth and final cut from ‘Sunset,’ the second half of Everyday Life. Ultimately, it’s the 16^th track and even without the rest of Everyday Life as a reference, this song totally feels like the coda – the conclusion.  In regard to the production, some of the key features are piano, keyboards, and lush, emotional strings.

Focusing on the songwriting, as the aforementioned chorus suggests, Chris Martin and company are thinking more transcendent and meaningful.  This sentiment also shines through the verses.  On the first verse, Martin has legitimate, open-ended questions: “What kind of world do you want it to be? / Am I the future or the history?” The second verse is shorter but remains transcendent and thoughtful in mindset: “How in the world am I going to see / You as my brother / … Not my enemy?”  It’s simple, yet incredibly complicated given the amount of racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and other hindrances that exist worldwide.  The outro is definitely fitting:

“At first light
Throw my arms out open wide
Hallelujah.”

Final Thoughts

Arguably, “Arabesque” and “Orphans” get a slight edge over third advance single “Everyday Life.” It’s mostly because of how awesome they are.  That said, “Everyday Life” is another terrific record by Coldplay.  Its best attribute is its thoughtfulness, specifically, that search for world peace without discrimination, inequality, and anything remotely negative and counterproductive.  It’s another winner from Everyday Life, that’s for sure.

Coldplay • Everyday Life • Warner • Release: 11.22.19

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