Everyday Life by Coldplay
Everyday Life is the 2019 double album from Coldplay, split into a Sunrise half and a Sunset half. It steps away from their stadium pop into gospel, protest, and quiet prayer. The theme runs through the title: the worth of ordinary days, and the common life that binds very different people.
Why listen?
The sound roams widely, from a lone piano to a brass band to a snatch of street recording. The production is loose and brave, willing to leave rough edges and odd corners in place. The lyrics reach for justice, grief, faith, and gratitude for small things. There is a real arc from dawn to dusk across the two halves. It is a restless, searching record that trusts its listener.
Favourite song: Everyday Life
The closing title track gathers the whole sprawling album into one rising hymn to ordinary days. It builds from a soft piano into a wide, generous chorus.
Everyone hurts, everyone cries
Everyone tells each other all kinds of lies
Everyone falls, everybody dreams and doubts
Got to keep dancing when the lights go out
The way the song lifts at the end feels like reaching the last rise of a long walk as the light goes gold. It answers a hard, divided record with plain tenderness for everyone in it. That kindness is what has stayed with me.
Key takeaway
Everyday Life is a sprawling, searching record about the worth of ordinary days. A rewarding, unexpected listen.
Tracklist
- Sunrise
- Church
- Trouble in Town
- BrokEn
- Daddy
- WOTW / POTP
- Arabesque
- When I Need a Friend
- Guns
- Orphans
- Èkó
- Cry Cry Cry
- Old Friends
- Bani Adam
- Champion of the World
- Everyday Life
Details
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Artist | Coldplay |
| Release year | 2019 |
| Length | 53 min |
| Tracks | 16 |
| Label | Parlophone / Atlantic |
| Standout moment | Everyday Life |
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