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Mylo Xyloto

Mylo Xyloto
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Studio album by Coldplay
Released 19 October 2011 (2011-10-19)
Recorded November 2008 – September 2011
Studio The Bakery and The Beehive, London, England
Genre
Length 44:09
Label
Producer
Coldplay chronology
iTunes Festival: London 2011
(2011)		 Mylo Xyloto
(2011)		 Live in Madrid
(2011)
Coldplay studio album chronology
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
(2008)		 Mylo Xyloto
(2011)		 Ghost Stories
(2014)
Reversible artwork
Singles from Mylo Xyloto
  1. "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall"
    Released: 3 June 2011
  2. "Paradise"
    Released: 12 September 2011
  3. "Charlie Brown"
    Released: 23 January 2012
  4. "Princess of China"
    Released: 14 February 2012
  5. "Up with the Birds" / "U.F.O."
    Released: 21 April 2012
  6. "Hurts Like Heaven"
    Released: 27 July 2012
  7. "Up in Flames"
    Released: 16 November 2012
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 65/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars
The A.V. Club B
The Daily Telegraph 4/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly C+
The Guardian 3/5 stars
NME 5/10
Pitchfork Media 7.0/10
Q 5/5 stars
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars
Spin 7/10

Mylo Xyloto /ˈmaɪloʊ ˈzaɪlətoʊ/ is fifth studio album by the British alternative rock band Coldplay. It was first released on 19 October 2011 by EMI, and later worldwide on 24 October. The band collaborated closely with acclaimed producer Brian Eno following their successful collaborations on Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, the band's fourth studio album.

Mylo Xyloto is a concept album and a thematic rock opera. The album tells the story of a war against sound and colour by a supremacist government, set in the world of Silencia, an Orwellian society. Silencia has been overtaken by a government led by Major Minus, who controls the population through media and propaganda. His aim is to take sound and colour off the streets in hope to draw away "feeders", creatures that use such energy to hunt its prey. The album follows Mylo, a "silencer", a soldier in an army tasked to hunt and track down "sparkers", people who harness light and energy and use it to create sparks, comparable to graffiti in real life. He encounters Xyloto, the sparker most wanted by Major Minus. Through Xyloto, Mylo discovers his sparker abilities and his affiliation with the Car Kids, a major sparker faction founded by Mylo's parents, Aiko and Lela. Drummer Will Champion has noted that the album is a story of the characters "falling in love and trying to escape together", with a general theme of "love conquering all".


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