Everyday Life by Coldplay

Everyday Life, Coldplay's eighth studio album, landed on Parlophone on 22 November 2019, and it's the most restless thing the band had put out. It's a double album squeezed onto a single CD, split into two halves called Sunrise and Sunset, and they launched it by playing each half from the Amman Citadel in Jordan at dawn and at dusk.

Gone is the stadium confetti: this is a record that hops from style to style, with Chris Martin taking on politics more directly than ever. It's also the first Coldplay album with swearing on it, in "Trouble in Town", "Arabesque" and "Guns". "Orphans" and "Arabesque" came out together as singles in October. Critics mostly cheered the experimental turn, though a few found it scattered. It still became their eighth UK number one, sold more than a million copies, and earned a nomination for Album of the Year at the 63rd Grammys, their first since Viva la Vida. There was no world tour to go with it.

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