Their creative paths might have diverged significantly in the intervening years, but there was a time, back in the early noughties, when Coldplay were viewed as Radiohead wannabes. But this came as news to Porter Robinson - who would have been just seven when Coldplay’s debut album, Parachutes, was released - who says that he only got into both bands and spotted the similarities when he hit 30.
Robinson, of course, has been in the public eye since he was a teenager, and was initially known as something of an electronic music prodigy. Musically, it might be argued that he’s recently gone in the opposite direction to Chris Martin and co; after struggling with his mental health, he returned with a new album, Nurture, in 2017, which saw him pivot to a more organic and guitar-based style.
