Claude says:Coldplay's fifth album landed in October 2011 as their first full concept record — a thematic rock opera about lovers resisting a totalitarian regime that's banned sound and color from the streets of planet Silencia. Producer Brian Eno helped them lean into arena-sized electronic flourishes and a more upbeat, neon-soaked palette than they'd ever attempted before. You picked it up on release and played it hard through the end of 2012, gravitating especially to "Hurts Like Heaven" and the interludes that stitch the narrative together, though it's cycled back in scattered bursts since then rather than staying close.