12 years ago today, Coldplay released “A Sky Full of Stars.” It still sucks.
They got Avicii to produce it — the guy had just turned “Wake Me Up” into one of the biggest records in years — and somehow ended up with a drop that lands like wet cardboard. Chris Martin going “oh-oh-oh-woh” over a chord progression that sounds like it was assembled from a Dropbox folder called epic_festival_moment_FINAL_v2.wav. Avicii’s ghost is out there right now, staring at the ceiling of whatever afterlife he ended up in, wondering how it went so wrong.
Here’s what you should listen to instead. All 2014. All better.
- ZHU — Faded
- Disclosure — Grab Her
- Caribou — Can’t Do Without You
- SBTRKT ft. Sampha — Wonder Where We Land
- Aphex Twin — minipops 67 [120.2] (from Syro)