Coldplay: Ghost Stories

Coldplay’s last album, Mylo Xyloto, was such an exuberant, ecstatic dayglo monster that it seemed inevitable that the only way onward was to go in the opposite direction, to go ‘back to basics’ – which, on Ghost Stories, they have. It is not, however, a return to the style of Parachutes, though it does share […]

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Editors: The Weight Of Your Love

The departure of guitarist Chris Urbanowicz, however much Editors have made the best of it in interviews, has left a huge hole in the band’s sound. As a consequence, there is a lot of space in The Weight Of Your Love, filled either with Tom Smith’s fantastic vocals, or worryingly MOR string sections. On first […]

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