What are the two named halves of Coldplay's Everyday Life album?

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The two named halves of Coldplay’s Everyday Life are Sunrise and Sunset. The album uses those titles to divide its track sequence into two complementary sections, with Sunrise first and Sunset second.

Released in 2019, Everyday Life was Coldplay’s first studio double album. Although it was issued as a single CD, the two-part design is central to its identity. The structure moves from the opening “Sunrise” side into the “Sunset” side, with the recurring “God = Love” field-recording interlude helping connect the album’s sections on the CD edition.

Coldplay extended the concept beyond the packaging. On the album’s release date, the band performed the Sunrise half at dawn and the Sunset half later in the day at Jordan’s Amman Citadel. A common mix-up is X&Y: that album also uses a split concept, but its “X” and “Y” labels do not make it a double album. Everyday Life’s named halves are specifically Sunrise and Sunset.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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