Coldplay are working with a “brutal” producer on their new album.

 

The Viva La Vida hitmakers started writing their forthcoming fifth album with Brian Eno, but he suggested they also draft in someone else to help them edit their work, which led to the group hiring Markus Dravs, on the recommendation of Arcade Fire singer Win Butler.

 

Frontman Chris Martin said: “We’d just met with Bran Eno and he said, ‘We also need another person, because I like to do the sort of sowing of the seeds, the more abstract stuff, but we also need a woodchopper guy who’s gonna organise everything.

 

“Win said ‘You should try this guy Markus. He’s wonderful and he’s extremely talented, but he’s brutal. ‘This is terrible’ or ‘this is great’. He’s extreme.”

 

Chris thinks this is a great thing for the group as it means they have no space to become complacent.

 

He added: “One of the dangers of getting a bit successful is that no-one pushes you quite so hard. But we don’t have that problem at the moment.” - Bang Showbiz

http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/music/coldplay-not-ready-for-complacency-1.1012569

 

Discuss.

Markus Dravs was already their producer, I think. He worked on VLVODAAHF, or am I wrong? :uhoh:

edit: he was definitely one of their producers in Viva La Vida, remember the good cop (Brian Eno), bad cop (Markus Dravs) thing they talked about in VLV interviews?

^I thought that too

Meh, I wasn't a Coldplay fan yet during that era. I'm merely posting the latest Coldplay article (according to google).

Markus Dravs was already their producer, I think. He worked on VLVODAAHF, or am I wrong? :uhoh:

edit: he was definitely one of their producers in Viva La Vida, remember the good cop (Brian Eno), bad cop (Markus Dravs) thing they talked about in VLV interviews?

 

yes Markus did work on VLV!:D

Yeah was this from the NME interview or a recent radio interview?

Markus Dravs was the producer on VLV.

I read it somewhere last week about his getting the recommendation from The Arcade Fire singer.

And Dravs is also mentioned in the Q Magazine issue on upcoming albums :)

Meh, I wasn't a Coldplay fan yet during that era. I'm merely posting the latest Coldplay article (according to google).

 

It's alright :nice: just the one who wrote the article got it wrong (to assume he was new since LP5, seeing he worked with them in LP4 as well)

Yeah was this from the NME interview or a recent radio interview?

Markus Dravs was the producer on VLV.

I read it somewhere last week about his getting the recommendation from The Arcade Fire singer.

 

Win Butler

its not news that markus works with them though regardless of if he was with them for viva, weve known of him for a whilllllllle