Coldplay A Head Full Of Dreams (180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) 1/7/2003

Coldplay A Head Full Of Dreams (180 Gram Vinyl, Digital Download Card) 1/7/2003Released swiftly after Ghost Stories just a year and a half, all things considered A Head Full of Dreams plays like a riposte to that haunted 2014 album. Where Chris Martin spent Ghost Stories in a mournful mood his sorrow perhaps derived from his divorce to Gwyneth Paltrow or perhaps not; it's best not to read too much into the tabloid headlines the Coldplay leader sees nothing but sunshine and stars on A Head Full of Dreams. Martin gives away the

a disgruntled Vietnam vet and the Ku Klux Klan

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While Lady Gaga was working the avant side of pop

and Pulitzer Prizes than sweetness and light ever do

we get the spacy electro-Motown of "Static Space Lover

there's a slightly meta quality to its tale of getting back into a lover's -- or listener's -- good graces

a way for the band to shake off all distractions and get back to basics

while throwing some stylistic curveballs along the way

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Tracks 1 Sex Bob-Omb - We Are Sex Bob-Omb 2 Plumtree - Scott Pilgrim 3 Frank Black - I Heard Ramona Sing 4 Beachwood Sparks - By Your Side 5 Black Lips - O Katrina