But unlike other space-travel rock or pop or soul artists, Chris Martin isn’t lifting off into the Milky Way to escape our fallen world. He’s out there to find himself. “Once upon a time, I tried to get myself together,

The new album reunites Chris and the rest with super-producer Max Martin, the very acme of unsentimental industrial-pop earwormery. But fret not, dear reader: Chris is the main Martin here, the presiding genius in whose feelgood mould the songs are cast.