Will Champion: "Mylo Xyloto is long in titles but short in duration"

 

Yes he said it in yesterday's interview with Steve Lamacq - ' just under 45 minutes '

^that!

I don't worry about the lengh.

But I worry about the pink girly style ultra commercial of it.

I'm looking forward to this album! They've been working hard for the past three years, so I have no doubt it'll be great. Is it October yet?!

Did anybody notice how Will said something about the album being 14 or 11 tracks that can be listened to in one go? Maybe he's hinting that 3 of the tracks are just short instrumental songs that aren't technically songs at all and that only 11 songs are full length pieces. If this is true, I think that the most likely candidates to be short songs are MMIX, UFO and A Hopeful Transmission.

Mylo Xyloto: 45 seconds

Hurts Like Heaven 4 minutes

Paradise: 4 minutes 30 seconds

Charlie Brown: 4 minutes 30 seconds

Us Against The World: 3 minutes 30 seconds

M.M.I.X: 30 seconds (total guess)

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall 4 minutes

Major Minus: 3 minutes 30 seconds

UFO: 3 minutes (guess)

Princess Of China: 3 minutes 30 seconds seconds

Up In Flames: 3 minutes

A Hopeful Transmission 1 minute (guess)

Dont Let It Break Your Heart: 3 minutes (guess)

Up With The Birds: 3 minutes 30 seconds

Mylo Xyloto: 45 seconds

Hurts Like Heaven 4 minutes

Paradise: 4 minutes 30 seconds

Charlie Brown: 4 minutes 30 seconds

Us Against The World: 3 minutes 30 seconds

M.M.I.X: 30 seconds (total guess)

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall 4 minutes

Major Minus: 3 minutes 30 seconds

UFO: 3 minutes (guess)

Princess Of China: 3 minutes 30 seconds seconds

Up In Flames: 3 minutes

A Hopeful Transmission 1 minute (guess)

Dont Let It Break Your Heart: 3 minutes (guess)

Up With The Birds: 3 minutes 30 seconds

 

I would say Mylo Xyloto is 42 seconds (as the intro to Life in Technicolor)

Yes and Paradise is 4:38 and ETIAW is 4:03 but I didnt use the exact times obviously.

I did a rough add up of the songs that we have heard. It's under 33 minutes so far? That's more than 10 minutes left for MMIX, UFO, DLIBYH, and UWTB.

Mylo Xyloto - 0:43

Hurts Like Heaven - 4:00

Paradise - 4:38

Charlie Brown - 4:40

Us Against The World - 3:57

M.M.I.X. - 0:25* (If it is the alien-esque intro they have used in festivals before ETIAW)

Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - 3:59

Major Minus - 3:30

U.F.O. - 0:53?

Princess Of China - 3:39

Up In Flames - 3:30

A Hopeful Transmission - 3:57?

Don't Let It Break Your Heart - 4:00 (If it is a song like Charlie Brown or Hurts Like Heaven)

Up With The Birds - 3:30 (PRS database?)

 

EDIT: My head burnt from working :freak:

 

It's about 45:35, if it's similar

*If you don't know what alien-esque intro I'm talking about, here it is:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdG72R0PvgU]Coldplay - Every Teardrop is a Waterfall recorded live at Lollapalooza, August 5th, 2011 - YouTube[/ame]

^I can't hear anything "alien" on that intro....that's more like the Violet Hill synth intro, and I think M.M.I.X. is not that, it's an instrumental and short but different, they wouldn't put a name on 25 seconds of just synths.

all ye who thought it would be another over long record like x&y...ye of little faith

Not really, because X&Y just proves that it has happened before.

they wouldn't put a name on 25 seconds of just synths.

 

probably those synth sounds, but with longer length :thinking:

 

It's ambient :dozey:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QAqvOKBZHY]Coldplay - Poppyfields - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixp7NL4RML0]Radiohead - MK 1 [in Rainbows Disc 2] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X69fLfPyBQ]Radiohead - MK 2 [in Rainbows Disc 2] - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGb_cx6okug&feature=related]Keane - House Lights - YouTube[/ame]

I guess an average song length of 3/4 minutes, two or three short instrumentals of 1 minute more or less and maybe a song longer than 5 minutes...