★★★★☆

This autumn Coldplay took a surprisingly low-key route to promoting their new album: a series of advertisements in the classified pages of local newspapers. Readers of the North Wales Daily Post may have been surprised to see an announcement for Everyday Life, alongside the usual notices for patio services and adult phone-ins. It suggested a humbler approach for a band who, through sheer ambition alone, went from being sensitive indie types to crashingly dull stadium-fillers. It was as if they were on a mission, perhaps inspired by the singer Chris Martin’s conscious uncoupling from his wife Gwyneth Paltrow, to be consciously uninteresting.

Now all that has changed. Gone is the Diptyque candle-friendly dinner-party pop of 2015’s A Head Full of Dreams, to