Moon Music (2024)

"As its title implies, the Coldplay of "Moon Music" aren’t coming back down to Earth any time soon. The album is the second part of their Music of the Spheres project. But unlike other space-travel rock or pop or soul artists, Chris Martin isn’t lifting off into the Milky Way to escape our fallen world. He’s out there to find himself. Martin sings on the album-opening title track, a widening New Age gyre of celestial orchestrations that eventually resolves into a searching, spare piano melody that sounds like Elton John doing Erik Satie. “I’m trying to trust in the heavens above, and I’m trying to trust in a world full of love.” Moon Music is only 10 songs, but it’s a lot, and that’s the idea — the pop-rock LP as social, psychological, and metaphysical cold-plunge. When Martin swung by the Rolling Stone office to preview the album for our staff, he sat on the floor, as if literally grounding himself to take in the enormity of what he hath wrought." (RollingStone; 3,5 uit 4 sterren)