We listen to the lead singer croon on his lack of sleep since she’s been gone, and in proceeding tracks like “Magic ”, we continue to hear the singer’s dynamic struggles of his torn heart. Right off the bat in this album, we begin to hear the ghosts of Martin’s past relationship in the song “Always in My Head ”. Unlike previous Coldplay records, Martin isn’t going for the empowering Viva La Vida-like anthems, except for the apparent odd track out, “A Sky Full Of Stars”, that starts with a pumping piano riff.Instead, this album, for the most part, takes on more of a heartbroken and melancholy theme, struggling between depression and acceptance of his newly single physique. With the obvious consciousness of the couple’s split, some may believe that this breakup record might be more self-motivating than lonely and depressing. It’s no secret that the band’s lead singer, Chris Martin, and his movie star wife of 10 years, Gwyneth Paltrow, called it quits with their “conscious uncoupling” two months prior to the release of this new record. Regardless of this fact, after its release on May 19, the album quickly became the band’s fourth number one record and the current highest selling album of 2014. Ghost Stories, the sixth studio album of “multi-platinum” record selling band Coldplay hit stores with a mellow and generally unimpressive bang.
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