COLDPLAY
A Head Full of Dreams Parlophone/Atlantic
SOONER OR LATER, EVERY GOLIATH OF modern stadium rock hears the siren call of the discotheque. U2, Radiohead, Arcade Fire — all have striven to goose their sincerity with syncopation, to inject more fun, more funk, into their big, regal, high-minded songs. Now it’s Coldplay’s turn. On the band’s seventh album, A Head Full of Dreams, Chris Martin and company nervously creep onto the dancefloor, like boys at a junior high school prom, determined to unleash the boogie, white man’s overbite be damned. Thus “Adventure of a Lifetime,” the first single, which puts a classic disco beat — percolating bassline, hissing high-hat, hand claps — behind Martin’s tremulous falsetto. The song’s sentiments are pure Coldplay. “We are diamonds taking shape,” sings…
