A Head Full Of Dreams

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Chris Martin felt that <i>A Head Full of Dreams</i> marked the end of something for Coldplay. In his mind, the band’s lead singer compared it to the seven colors of the color spectrum—on their seventh record, they were completing a journey. It made for a dazzling and joyous album, something that felt like a culmination over everything the four-piece had explored over the previous 15-plus year. There were no concerns about what was cool and what wasn’t anymore. Coldplay were way beyond that, more interested in celebrating that they were a band who loved pop music as much as they loved rock ’n’ roll, so why not combine it all? To that end, <i>A Head Full of Dreams</i> features appearances from Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Brian Eno, Tove Lo, and Merry Clayton with some guests that went beyond the realm of musical peer. There’s the political—Barack Obama pops up on two tracks for spoken-word excerpts—and the personal in a Coldplay Jr. choir made up of all their children, plus Martin’s ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow singing a line referring to their breakup on the tender ballad “Everglow.” .

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