On 22 February 2017, Spotify prematurely posted a banner ad at the top of the site’s home page featuring the graphic of " Something Just like This" with a Listen Now button.
COLDPLAY KALEIDOSCOPE SONG FULL
The full extended play was released on the same day as the second single " Miracles (Someone Special)" on 14 July 2017. For the EP, a previously unreleased version, titled "Tokyo Remix" was recorded live in Tokyo, Japan in April and released on June 23. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay collaborated on the first single " Something Just Like This", which was released on 22 February 2017. The release was originally due to 2 June, but it was delayed to 30 June and then 14 July without any previous announcement from the band. On 21 November 2016, Chris Martin announced the EP title on the band's official Twitter account, it is the same as an interlude track from A Head Full of Dreams (2015). The EP was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. It was released worldwide on 14 July 2017 and serves as a companion piece to Coldplay's seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams (2015). They make it for the ones who want to be.Kaleidoscope EP is the thirteenth extended play by British rock band Coldplay. That Coldplay doesn’t make music for sad people, and they don’t make music for happy people either. While Martin’s aforementioned line sounded almost like a question before, this ending serves as a resounding “Yes.”Īt the end of the day, this new EP only serves to prove one thing. It all builds to a lovely climax, much like the opener, however the mood is different now. This opener is perhaps a perfect mirror of the closer “Hypnotised.” It also features Coldplay moving through a soupy looping piano riff and swirling country-esque guitars, but there’s nothing dark rustling under the surface here. One can imagine swimming higher and higher towards the surface, sun beginning to shimmer through the ripples of water rising and rising until finally breaking through and taking a deep breath of air as Martin sings the closing line, “Love is the only thing left that's true.” There may be no other greater truth to Coldplay’s music than this. That is, until its quickly swept away by gorgeous pianos and a full choir, all ascending effortlessly into a swirling climax. It’s a repressed, drowned, and dare I say angry sound. It begins the EP featuring singer Chris Martin in more pain than we’ve heard him in years. The dark plunge of “All I Can Think About You” is the only thing that can match “A L I E N S” in terms of quality. It’s at once startling and disquieting while also calming and full, piling sound upon sound in such a satisfying way that I wouldn’t mind an entire album focused merely on the style they used in this track. The glitchy “A L I E N S” takes my earlier remark of the otherworldly quality of Coldplay’s music to the extreme. On this release however, the ratio is stacked in their favor. And any addition of a song featuring the Chainsmokers is a terrible choice, regardless of a superior version. For example, the doomed-to-fail and out of place Big Sean contribution featured on “Miracles (Something Special).” It’s a funky and otherwise inspired song marred by one bad idea. That isn’t to say that they don’t falter here more than they ever had. While it still is far worse than any other Coldplay song, it is miles beyond what came before, and flows much better on the EP than one would expect. It succeeded in dismantling the stilted, manufactured vibe of the initial release. The retroactive addition of the “Tokyo Remix” of “Something Just Like This” in place of the original single also relieved my nervousness. The release of three more singles of increasing quality that sounded virtually nothing like AHFOD, indeed, nothing really like anything they’d done before, turned my head so fast I almost broke my neck. It wasn’t long till things shifted gears.
And did the world really need an EP chock-full of b-sides from A Head Full of Dreams (as it was originally marketed)?
It was undoubtedly the worst song ever released under the Coldplay moniker.
Coming off of the low-point of A Head Full of Dreams and releasing “Something Just Like This” with the Chainsmokers as a lead single created an immediate wince. This release more than ever threatened to finally cut down my adoration of the band a few notches. But Coldplay has always transported me to a different world where this wasn’t the case. His musical opinions can always be cut down with a simple, “But you 5’d Viva la Vida.” His yearning for optimism can always be trampled by the bitterness of reality. It’s hard for a man with a profound sense of love for Coldplay to get by in the world. Review Summary: Is love is the only thing left that's true?
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