In return, Martin is telling them that it's all going to be OK, because that's what Coldplay albums do: they offer comfort and uplift. ![]() For Coldplay die-hards, this window into Martin's hurt is unmissable viewing, and not in a TMZ-sort of way. Whatever your feelings on Coldplay's music, it's hard not to view another marriage self-immolating without a cramp of regret, particularly for the innocents involved (Apple Martin sings backing vocals on Always in My Head). "No I don't want anybody else but you." These nine tracks brim with heartache, regarding love's afterlife with some bewilderment. "And I just got broken/Broken into two," notes Martin. Magic, the album's first single released in March, was fairly plain on the subject. That this Coldplay album concerns singer Chris Martin's conscious uncoupling from celebrity sugar-denier Gwyneth Paltrow is not news. But you don't need to squint to see another picture altogether on the cover of Ghost Stories – not wings, but a heart broken jaggedly in two. Birds take flight on the album closer, O. ![]() ![]() The album's opening track, Always in My Head, wafts in on a wave of celestial shimmers too elsewhere, there are skies full of stars. T hose are angel wings on the cover of Coldplay's sixth studio album, etched by the London-based Czech artist Míla Fürstová.
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