![]() The best-written songs-the looping intro, “Always in My Head,” the acoustic throwback “Oceans,” the piano-ballad finale “O”-scarcely have what a listener might recognize as a chorus. ![]() The mood clings desperately to melancholy wistfulness throughout. The album is a state-of-the-art hydrotherapy tank-a lavish, electric-powered, whirling vat of feelings. It transcends the category of “bath rock" mostly by leaving behind the second syllable. There’s no rule that saying songs have to be complicated or thrilling.īut Ghost Stories, Coldplay's latest album, is really, really neither complicated nor thrilling. I love this band, not for its efforts to break rules, but for its underrated ability to play within the rules of mainstream pop to compose relentlessly memorable music. After all, I've written thousands of words about Coldplay for this site. "Bath rock," its even calmer descendant coming of age in the late 1990s, is better suited to people, like myself, who prefer their sonic waters even less choppy. Artists like Kenny Loggins and Toto belonged to a 1970s genre called “yacht rock” for a reason-it blended easily with waves lapping a hull. ![]() The Power of the Dog Has a Queer Problem Spencer Kornhaber
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