Okay, so Wikipedia seems to have a few updates (Take all with a pinch of salt!)

 

From wikipedia:

 

"Rainy Day" (featuring Timbaland)

"Prospekt's March"

"Everything Will Be Down" (Duets With Nicole Scherzinger) (Produced by Stargate)

"Lost! (The Neptunes Remix)" (featuring Jay-Z) (Produced by The Neptunes)

 

This.. seems a bit made up to me.. What do you guys think?

 

If that's true, then kill me now.

If that's true, then kill me now.

 

ditto

Okay, so Wikipedia seems to have a few updates (Take all with a pinch of salt!)

 

From wikipedia:

 

"Rainy Day" (featuring Timbaland)

"Prospekt's March"

"Everything Will Be Down" (Duets With Nicole Scherzinger) (Produced by Stargate)

"Lost! (The Neptunes Remix)" (featuring Jay-Z) (Produced by The Neptunes)

 

This.. seems a bit made up to me.. What do you guys think?

 

 

this seems very made up to me. I'm not even worried about this

A new way to Coldplay

 

 

Coldplay have admitted they thought they were over-hyped before making next year's new album.

 

Chris Martin told Q: "We were in a position where we very big, but we didn't think we were very good."

 

Martin said new producers Brian Eno and Markus Dravs "opened us up to new things" such as Tinariwen.

 

He said: "At least you can steal from a thousand different places today."

 

Source: http://www.teletext.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/1/A+new+way+to+Coldplay.aspx

Coldplay get hypnotised

 

 

Coldplay have been having hypnosis sessions to relax while making their new album.

 

"It was fun and interesting and we wrote some nice things," Chris Martin told Q.

 

He added: "Everything over these past few months has been about taking off any shackles. Sometimes you need a hypnotist to give you the bravery to try new things."

 

Fuente: http://www.teletext.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/4/Coldplay+get+hypnotised.aspx

thankyou for all of this!!!! i needed an update on the album where everything (what has been confirmed) had been brought together under one thread, you also answered many of the questions i had.:)

 

Violet Hill... :P

Someone is taking this a bit too seriously if you ask me

 

:shocked2:

Coldplay get hypnotised

 

 

Coldplay have been having hypnosis sessions to relax while making their new album.

 

"It was fun and interesting and we wrote some nice things," Chris Martin told Q.

 

He added: "Everything over these past few months has been about taking off any shackles. Sometimes you need a hypnotist to give you the bravery to try new things."

 

Fuente: http://www.teletext.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/4/Coldplay+get+hypnotised.aspx

 

HAAAAAAAAAAA

oh man. it seems theyre willing to give anything a go to make this good :rolleyes3:

Less piano?? The sound of piano makes coldplay musics great.. But I don't care. As long as they will come out with their fourth album as soon as possible... :laugh3:

According to the article (which I find to be a more reliable source than, say, wikipedia) the mixing was finished before christmas...so what else is there to do before they start manufacturing this thing?

According to the article (which I find to be a more reliable source than, say, wikipedia) the mixing was finished before christmas...so what else is there to do before they start manufacturing this thing?

 

i think i may be getting stupider, because i read the very same line in the article and yet it didnt click until i read what you wrote!!

SO WHAT THE HELL ELSE NEEDS TO BE DONE BESIDES FACTORY-PRODUCING THE STUFF AND TELLING US WHEN WE CAN EXPECT IT?!?!?!

ok, sorry, but i'm so freaking excited and anxious i dont think i can wait much longer.

i really hope this means that we're going to get word of a release date soon.

Release...date.....oh don't say those words, they kill me from the inside...

Ahaa... release date...?? I am waiting their 4th LP since the hardest part singles came out... What a long time... :shocked2:

Okay, as many of you guys may already know, LOADS of very interesting stuff about the upcoming album were included in the Latest issue of Q magazine. (There's another thread where it has scans and a transcript of the article, courtesy of Busybeeburns =) )

 

After reading through the article, I had a few thoughts about it written toward the end of this post..

 

For those of you who still haven't checked it out yet, here's the article:

 

'

As Coldplay enter the final lap of recording their fourth album, they’re mindful of previous pre-release proclamations of greatness - such, “Our next album is going to be the greatest piece of music ever made.” uttered by Chris Martin towards the end of the campaign for 2005’s 12 million-selling X&Y. Flopping onto a sofa in the band’s own North London studio, The Bakery, a twitchy Martin is now hell-bent on, “avoiding hyperbole. We’ll keep it factual.”

 

The band have been working on X&Y’s successor since the summer of 2006. A few months into the process veteran producer Brian Eno and his right-hand man. Markus Dravs, came on board as producers. Eno had known Coldplay for a while [he contributed “bubbling synthesizer” to X&Y’s Low], and has a track record of pushing big bands beyond their comfort zones and helping them locate a new direction, most famously with U2’s The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby.

 

“He’s encouraged us to just try things,” says bassist Guy Berryman, who acknowledges they were drawn to Eno’s love of experimentation. “It’s very easy to no try an idea because you think everyone's gonna think it’s a rubbish one. We thought, We’re using Brian not because we’re trying to copy U2 in any way, but because he’s a really nice guy who’s very inspiring to be around. It’s worked out really well.”

 

A plan to road-test new material during a short tour of South America early last year came to nothing. As did some of the tracks they’d been working on up until that point, which were “shunted” aside when they returned to the studio. Berryman says the band have hit a similar wall on “every album”. Meanwhile, being forced to write a fresh batch of tunes helped Martin overcome a crisis of confidence.”The difficult thing about where we were at either months ago,”

he says, “is that we were in the position where we were extremely big. But we didn’t actually think we were very good.”

 

Another thing that helped them out of the rut was hypnosis, with the band’s new-found adventurousness extending to writing music while in an altered state. Some might conclude they’ve misplaced their marbles, but Martin seems unconcerned.”Everything over this past few months has been about taking off any shackles,” he says, “We feel like we have so much to prove and so many ideas that we’d like to try - sometimes you need a hypnotist to give you the bravery to do it. “For the record, he insists the experience, “was fun and interesting, and we wrote some nice things.”

 

Martin talks about the recording process as liberating, as being about, “locking ourselves away and stopping worrying about what anyone might say. “It’s been about just trying anything, without worrying. Is this Coldplay?”. Eno also cracked the whip in more mundane ways, structuring the working day, so they followed more regular, rather than rock-star hours. There was to be no more rolling in at noon. “He said, You work far too long, but not hard enough,” admits drummer Will Champion.

 

Inevitably, the producer also altered their approach to making music, encouraging them to consider rhythm, experiment with time signatures and during one eureka moment, transpose Glass Of Water’s piano riff into three different guitars. “It sounded very African, which we liked,” says Berryman.

 

While Q’s in the studio, Eno beavers away on Famous Old Painters, employing a gizmo called a Midi Piano Bar to translate Martin’s signature piano riff onto a variety of other instruments. “We don’t want piano all the way through,” Eno says, flagging up another significant change in the sound of the as-yet-untitled album. He also acknowledges that, “The band wanted to move away from a way of working that had built up on the previous three albums,” So while X&Y germinated in the studio, this one draws on their live shows. “We’ve tried, says Eno, “to base this one more around performance.”

 

They’ve also tried to keep things brief, with the album designed to come in at nine songs and just over 42 minutes. “We’ve been strict about cutting things quite tightly,” maintains Eno. “There’s not a lot of fat - everything sounds like a full composed song.”

 

The final nine songs will be chosen from a shortlist of 20, with mixing having been completed before Christmas. Favourites include the atmospheric, handclap-laden, possible first single Cemeteries Of London, the string assisted Yes and Lost!, which according to Champion, was “drastically” reinvented by ditching its “big hip-hop beat”.

 

“Big hip-hop beats” will come as no surprise to Chris Martin-watchers. The last time the singer was onstage in this country was September 2006, when he guested during Jay-Z’s show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, playing piano on Heart Of The City [Ain’t No Love]. Since then Martin has appeared on both Jay-Z’s Kingdom Come, producing and singing on the track Beach Chair, and Kanye West’s Graduation [he sings on Homecoming].

 

Will this album see any traces of his passion for the world of rap? “Brian and Marcus have opened us up to all kinds of things,” is Martin’s half-honest, half-flippant response. “They’ve helped us realise it’s OK to be influenced by people who aren’t Radiohead. They’ve introduced us to Tinariwen [from Mali, heavily rhythmic], Rammstein [intense German metal] - everything”.

 

After the progressively more stadium rock sound of their first three albums, the fourth is being billed as Coldplay 2.0. “The start of something fresh,” says Champion. “It was an incredible eight

years, but we got to the point of saturation.”

 

Champion also says many of the tracks share a theme: “Trying to remember what’s important in your life, rather than being carried away by the trappings of other things.”

 

Chris Martin suggests Coldplay’s options are now wide open.”That’s what’s nice about being in a band these days: although you’re never gonna be as good as The Beatles, at least you can steal from thousands of different places. It’s a plagiarist’s dream. You can learn something from anyone who’s hungry. So I will steal off anyone that sounds like they’re desperate to do something great. Whether that’s a 15 year-old in my brother’s band or whatever. Could be anybody.

 

INFO

 

Title: TBC

Recorded: The Bakery, North London; Spain

Key Tracks: Cemeteries Of London, Lost! Famous Old Painters

Released: May/June 2008

Strange But True: Group backing vocals were recorded in two churches and a monastery in Barcelona. All “soaked in reverb”, apparently.

 

THE SCIENTIST

 

Maverick producer Brian Eno’s on board. What will Coldplay do?

 

Go African: Eno first explored “the interface between primitive and futuristic”

on Talking Heads’ Fear Of Music, which opened with the African rhythms of I Zimbra, a mind-bending collaboration with frontman David Byrne.

Likelihood: A sure bet. The band have namechecked Tinariwen and talked about new track Glass Of Water sounding “very African”.

ODDS: 2/1

 

Go Avant-Garde: Eno suggested David Byrne use the nonsense poetry of Dadaist writer Hugo Ball as lyrics for I Zimbra, while avant-garde composer Steve Reich inspired his early studio “treatments” with Roxy Music. As Bono put it later “A lot of English rock ‘n’ roll bands went to art school. We went to Brian”.

Likelihood: High experimentation is what Eno does best, after all

ODDS: 5/1

 

Go German: A fellow fan of early 70s Krautrock, David Bowie invited Eno to Berlin’s Hansa studios to work on “Heroes” and The Lodger. When U2 booked the same studio in 1990 for Achtung Baby, he flew in every two weeks to offer “comments and suggestions”

Likelihood: Unlikely, though Eno has introduced them to Teutonic metal loons

Rammstein.

ODDS: 15/1

 

Go Ambient: The idea for his ambient albums came after Eno was knocked down by a taxi. Recovering in bed, he noticed background noises mixing with the songs playing on his stereo and had the notion of using music “like you use a piece of furniture or… lighting”

Likelihood: Low. Stadium rock doesn’t really sound the same without drums.

ODDS: 50/1

 

Go Freestyle: While recording with Bowie in Berlin, Eno made use of his Oblique Strategies, a set of cards bearing instructions such as “Be dirty” and “Change ambiguities to specifics”. “Brian was doing some strange experiments,” recalls producer Tony Visconti.

Likelihood: They brought in a hypnotist. It doesn’t get much more freestyle than that.

ODDS: 2/1

 

Let Eno take their press Shot: If his bug-eyed photograph of Coldplay for this issue of Q is anything to go by, Eno clearly fancies himself with a camera.

Likelihood: We’d probably suggest that David Bailey isn’t losing any sleep just yet.

ODDS 50/1'

 

 

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Alright. Loads and loads of interesting stuff.

 

The album has completed from mixing stage and there're a list of 20 songs to choose from. We know 11 of them so far.

 

We also know that 'Lost!' was supposed to be hip-hop orientated (Probably tying in the the "In doubt over the drum track for 'Lost!'" phrase from Prospekt's December post. But it has been 'drastically reinvented' since then. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Perhaps Coldplay may release the hip-hop version as an exclusive or something in the future?.. Oh the possibilities =)

 

'Lost!' and 'Yes!' are songs that are assisted by strings. So probably more violin-ish, cello-ish type of songs like 'Bucket For a Crown'?

 

'Cemetries Of London' is a handclap-laden track. (Is anyone else thinking of '15 steps' by Radiohead, haha) and is most likely the very first single off the new album! =)

 

Okay, so we now have a very 'african' music style feel to 'Glass of water' produced by guitars based on piano riffs. This sounds really exciting to me and I hope they keep it on the album! =D

 

I guess we were right, in some way, in guessing that the new album has a theme of 'life' to it.

 

I still need some time to digest everything- So much info!!! haha

 

The band is probably starting to finalise the publicity ideas, album cover and songlists this month and maybe continuing progress for the new tour/live shows coming up. If what the report about Coldplay performing in february is true, then most likely release date would be around... April?

 

February to showcase some new songs, March to bring on the publicity guns and interviews and all that, and then April the big premiere of the new album! =D

 

That's just me, of course.. I wouldn't mind the album coming out earlier =P heh. So long as it's quality over quantity, I'm definitely okay with it.

Aren't they performing at Live Earth, which is broadcast over the whole world?

 

The last Live Earth was streamed Live on the internet...which means, no matter where you are, you can watch this performance on the internet...

 

:sneaky: I'm makin' sure mum pays the internet bills from now on...

Will's quote on their emphasis on the importance and meaning of things in life is all the confirmation I need for the title to be "42". I also must say I'm exhilarated that "cemeteries of london" might be the first single (I know I don't know what it sounds like but the title seems to say it all :cool:).

 

Also...what's this magazine notice about the album being released in may? SAY IT AIN'T SO! seriously, I don't think so. we were told early 2008 and the mutual opinion is march at the latest. The mixing is over...I just can't imagine anything taking five months!

I'm guessing we're going to get a new Prospekt entry sometime this week or next week.

 

Maybe the first single may come out around... late feb?? I really hope it comes out soon, WE NEED OUR COLDPLAY FIX! haha.

somehow, i feel like once they TELL US the release date, i'll be less particular about when it actually comes out. if they told us today that it comes out in november, i think i'd calm down a bit and be placated. to me it's about being able to count down to it by day, knowing exactly how much longer i've got to wait rather than guessing all the time like we are now.

that's not to say that i dont want it to come out soon, though! i'd kill for a march release, but i dont think that's going to happen.

 

even though its farther away than i originally hoped, i'd actually love a may release because i'll be back from college by then for the summer and it would make getting it and having the time to listen to it and fully enjoy it a hell of a lot easier. if it comes out in late april i may cry because ill be in the throes of exams and wont be able to devote my full attention to it!!