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

 

 

Full transcript at http://wiki.coldplaying.com/index.php/Q_Magazine_(February_2008)_Coldplay_Article:_Transcript

Go Ambient :stunned:...

 

Then again, Parachutes was very Ambient so, nothing to worry!

All of the above, and then some.

Go African, Go Freestyle and something unimaginable... :shocked2:

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.”

Im getting really excited now.

This sounds like a masterpiece in the making. :D

Like sand through the hour glass..

 

Go Ambient :stunned:...

 

Then again, Parachutes was very Ambient so, nothing to worry!

ambient krautrock!! YEA!!:laugh3::laugh3::laugh3: (they do like to surprise us, so who knows??!)

Go FREESTYLE!!! Id like to see Chris Martin having a go at rappin.hahha