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Ghost Stories (Album) (Music)
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Ghost Stories is the sixth album by English Alternative Rock band Coldplay, released in 2014.It is a Concept Album from the perspective of a man undergoing the sudden end of a relationship, with the tracks representing his full reflection on the matter before coming to acceptance and moving on. This premise was partially inspired by vocalist Chris Martin's breakup with Gwyneth Paltrow, his wife of 10 years.note The two children Martin had with Paltrow, Apple and Moses, are even included in the album as singers on the song "O". Among the main subjects of the album, Martin cited one's capacity for unconditional love and how one lets the events of their past (which he described as "ghosts") affect their present and future as major themes.In another wholesale shift in sound for the band, the introspective lyrics are accompanied by ambient electronic soundscapes. The genres explored by the album range between full-on ambient music ("Midnight", "Oceans", "O"), alternative pop ("Magic", "Ink", "True Love"), and Trip Hop/downtempo ("Always in My Head", "Another's Arms"), making for a subdued, atmospheric listening experience. However, the album also builds to an emotional climax of sorts through an EDM song co-produced by Avicii ("A Sky Full of Stars"). It was reported that in working on the album, the band sought to return to a stripped-down acoustic sound following the electronic maximalism of their previous album, 2012's Mylo Xyloto.The album was promoted by four singles: "Magic", "A Sky Full of Stars", "True Love", and "Ink". "Midnight" was further released in April 2015 as a promotional single for Record Store Day. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Especially compared to Mylo Xyloto before it and A Head Full of Dreams after, with the album tackling Chris Martin's break up head on, with a much more moody and introspective sound and having a Bittersweet Ending in comparison to Mylo Xyloto's Happy Ending. | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: "Fly On" + "O". | |
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Auto-Tune | |
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Autotune: "Midnight" utilizes a soft vocoder on Chris' vocals that becomes more apparent when played live and fielded many comparisons to Bon Iver. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: The album takes partial inspiration from Chris' rocky relationship with his wife Gwyneth Paltrow (at least at the time of the album recording), the album revolves around a man going through a dramatic and sudden breakup, with the tracks representing the man's state of mind leading up to his eventual acceptance of the situation. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The story of heartbreak from a recently-terminated relationship chronicled throughout Ghost Stories ends on a note of acceptance from the protagonist in the finale of "O", who's willing to move on but will never forget what the relationship meant to him. | |
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Ethereal Choir | |
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Ethereal Choir: The angelic choir that appears in the first track and hidden finale of Ghost Stories; the album's finale also features Chris Martin's own children singing to this effect. | |
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Sampling: A sample of Jon Hopkins' "Amphora" is used prominently in "Midnight". | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: The opening track "Always in My Head" prominently uses the same angelic choir sounds as the hidden final track "O". The song "Another's Arms" begins and ends with the same lines. | |
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Magicians Are Wizards | |
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Magicians Are Wizards: Invoked in "Magic." | |
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Lonely Piano Piece | |
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Lonely Piano Piece: "Fly On". | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "Midnight". | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener: Inverted; Ghost Stories has the ambient Hidden Track "O", an Epic Instrumental Closer that plays after "Fly On". | |
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BreakUpSong | |
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Break Up Song: Ghost Stories is essentially and conceptually a breakup album, considering it was made around the time when Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow divorced. | |
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Evil Brunette Twin | |
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Evil Brunette Twin: Used in the music video for "Magic". Chris Martin not only plays the hero, but also the villain, a mix of Stage Magician and Dastardly Whiplash. | |
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Knife-Throwing Act | |
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Knife-Throwing Act: In the music video for "Magic", this is featured. In the extended edition of the video, Chris Martin's character is stabbed through the heart. Luckily for him, this is only a dream. | |
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One-Man Band | |
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One-Man Band: Each band member plays one of them in the video for "A Sky Full of Stars". | |
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Silly Love Songs | |
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Silly Love Songs: "A Sky Full of Stars" and "Magic", although the latter falls on Lyrical Dissonance. | |
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B-Side | |
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B-Side: "All Your Friends", "Ghost Story" and the "O" reprise, featured in the A Sky Full of Stars EP and the Target edition of the album. | |
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Big Friendly Dog | |
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Big Friendly Dog: One of them joins the band in the woods in the "Midnight" video. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The video for "Midnight", which uses both negative and thermal infrared imagery, is entirely in black-and-white (aside from some Splash of Color-esque effects) except for the final shot. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Magic", "Ink", "Midnight", "Oceans" and "O". | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: The video for "Midnight" was filmed entirely (save for the ending) using a thermal infrared camera with negative imagery with a whole slew of visual effects on top of that. | |
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Hidden Track | |
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Hidden Track: A weird example. The ninth and final track on the album's tracklist is listed as "O," despite the fact that the first song that plays is actually titled "Fly On." "O" is, in fact, the hidden track that plays about two minutes after "Fly On" ends. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: On Ghost Stories, there's a split-second overlap between "True Love" and "Midnight", and "Oceans" has an ambient outro that effectively sets the stage mood-wise for — and transitions into — "A Sky Full of Stars". | |
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