Coldplay: Day 20
Welcome back to the Coldplay blog, everybody. This post is all about Coldplay's fifth album, Mylo Xyloto (it's pronounced "Myloh Zye-loh-toh"). Mylo Xyloto is my favorite Coldplay album (last time I said I wasn't sure if it would remain that way, but I think it does), and I ended up laboring over this post for quite a long time. I apologize in advance if it's too long, haha. I don't know if I want my future posts to generally be this long and intense, but I had a hard time moving past this one, since so many of the songs on it are some of my favorites. So for now, enjoy this one. Mylo Xyloto is Coldplay's fifth album, and their first since the acclaimed Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends . As I talked about in my previous post, this album is known for the continuation and expansion of the genre shift that Coldplay had started with Viva La Vida, incorporating more pop sensibilities, and moving from fitting neatly into one genre (rock), to bei...