I get the feeling the album release and promotion will be similar to that of AHFOD. Start teasing in September/October, do the usual iHeartRadio Festival set, drop a single, play an in-studio set for Radio 1 or Radio 2, release the album in early December, and start the world tour around April or May of 2022. Hopefully the pandemic situation will have improved to the point where Coldplay can safely perform in front of tens of thousands of people again. 

Real quick, what is the font that is used for MOS?

7 hours ago, 42Escapist said:

I get the feeling the album release and promotion will be similar to that of AHFOD. Start teasing in September/October, do the usual iHeartRadio Festival set, drop a single, play an in-studio set for Radio 1 or Radio 2, release the album in early December, and start the world tour around April or May of 2022. Hopefully the pandemic situation will have improved to the point where Coldplay can safely perform in front of tens of thousands of people again. 

They already have done the iheart gig though. Which makes me think that the gig was going to be part of the MOTS promotion previously but the pandemic changed that. So it’s just the single and teasers were waiting on right now.

3 hours ago, Stanz2500 said:

Real quick, what is the font that is used for MOS?

The font is Gitfiddler NF (regular) 

24 minutes ago, The Jordanator said:

They already have done the iheart gig though. Which makes me think that the gig was going to be part of the MOTS promotion previously but the pandemic changed that. So it’s just the single and teasers were waiting on right now.

Only reason I mentioned the iHeartRadio gig is because they've done it in consecutive years before. They played it in 2014 for Ghost Stories and they did it again in 2015 before AHFOD came out in order to debut their new colorful look.

I do wonder how far ahead the 2020 set was planned, though. Was it indeed supposed to kick off the MOTS era or was it just Coldplay wanting to tie the fans over while they finish the album? Either theory seems plausible. 

Can’t forget as well that Coldplay were due to perform at the Global Citizen Festival 2020 which I believe was around September? I’d assume that something would’ve been released before then if it wasn’t for coronavirus 

Also, this covid 19 era might have changed Chris' perception of life in general and it may be that they have changed the direction entirely (let's not forget Mylo Xyloto was first meant to be The Wedding Album). The life we now know has changed immeasurably and this will surely reflect in the band's songwriting. 

14 hours ago, Lamebutiloveit said:

Can’t forget as well that Coldplay were due to perform at the Global Citizen Festival 2020 which I believe was around September? I’d assume that something would’ve been released before then if it wasn’t for coronavirus 

 

4 hours ago, Miha said:

Also, this covid 19 era might have changed Chris' perception of life in general and it may be that they have changed the direction entirely (let's not forget Mylo Xyloto was first meant to be The Wedding Album). The life we now know has changed immeasurably and this will surely reflect in the band's songwriting. 

Both of these posts have got me thinking. Perhaps the pandemic has put the band in a different state of mind compared to what they were working on before, so not only did they cancel the Global Citizen performance, but they also decided to revisit LP9 in light of the events of 2020.

It reminds me of what U2 did with the Songs Of Experience album. It was due to be released in late 2016, but then the US election happened and Bono had a mysterious near-death experience. This caused the band to go back and rework the material. The album ended up being delayed until late 2017.

But MOTS as a title obviously remains, so the ideas for some of the songs probably have stayed untouched. Would have been interesting however to find out how much the course of the album has changed in the past year since the pandemic. I am 100% convinced this will also be included in the theme. 

I don't think the Covid is going to change Music of the Spheres, that would not match the hint that they left in Everyday Life, here the reason why the album has not been released yet, is because maybe the band could not finish recording the album , or they want to release the album on a date where everything has settled down and they go on tour and most likely they couldn't trademark the name

I think that Music of the Spheres will be the same from it's conception in 2018

Edited January 16, 20215 yr by Beckett B

Okay so if I can just fantasy speculate real quick. Others mentioned this way back in the thread and sufjan stevens already did this, but how cool would it be if the album was actually solar system themed and each track found ways to incorporate the ACTUAL music of the spheres (some of the odd frequencies and sounds that come from planets). 

So the track listing could include: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. You could also have other tracks like UFO, Galaxies, Moons, Etc. Earth could maybe just be a reworked version of Life Is Beautiful and the whole album would sound like a rock opera -- tons of spacey MX/X&Y synth sounds but with some of the grand, rootsy, classical sounds of VLV. Producers could include Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins, Markus Dravs, Madeon, and maybe some other special guests like they had on AHFOD to do backup vocals or to add extra guitar. 

Okay fantasy over. It's safe to say that the album will probs be very mainstream and my fantasy would be way more alternative and with few, if any, singles. 

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Edited April 30, 20215 yr by DJK

I'm hoping for A View From The Top, Moses, A Ghost and Lukas but that's unrealistic, and as much as I'd like actual releases of the reprises form Live 2012 that's sadly not going to happen either. What about Lethal Drug? I like that one a lot. And what about Flags? It wouldn't be the first time a Japan-only song is released worldwide.

Edited January 22, 20215 yr by Doomotron
Added A Ghost and Moses to the list of songs I wish were released.

5 hours ago, Doomotron said:

I'm hoping for A View From The Top, A Ghost and Lukas but that's unrealistic, and as much as I'd like actual releases of the reprises form Live 2012 that's sadly not going to happen either. What about Lethal Drug? I like that one a lot. And what about Flags? It wouldn't be the first time a Japan-only song is released worldwide.

Flags was released on Spotify (unsure about Apple Music) a few weeks back in the UK and I’m guessing the rest of the world too. I must says it’s a really great song.

2 hours ago, Ollie2002 said:

Flags was released on Spotify (unsure about Apple Music) a few weeks back in the UK and I’m guessing the rest of the world too. I must says it’s a really great song.

So it is, I didn't see it. That's one off my checklist...

I think that Music of the Spheres is definitely going to have spatial rhythms, maybe it has a lot of synths, and I also think it has something to do with Los Unidades

7 hours ago, Ollie2002 said:

Flags was released on Spotify (unsure about Apple Music) a few weeks back in the UK and I’m guessing the rest of the world too. I must says it’s a really great song.

It really is!

18 hours ago, DJK said:

Just out of curiosity, has anybody been keeping a running list of unreleased songs that might appear on this album? E.g.:

1) The Race
2) Us Against the World [reworked and "finished" as Chris mentioned in Together at home]
3) UFO (#2)

I'm hoping we can finally hear Tomorrow, which was left off of MX and Ghost Stories.

Who knows, this is a long shot, but maybe we'll get Until The Water Flows Over. It's referenced in the AHFOD documentary so maybe the band was inspired to revisit it. Arabesque and ALIENS were both worked on in the sessions for MX... but the band still finished and released them years later, so I suppose any of the old unreleased songs could be fair game.

12 hours ago, Doomotron said:

I'm hoping for A View From The Top, A Ghost and Lukas but that's unrealistic, and as much as I'd like actual releases of the reprises form Live 2012 that's sadly not going to happen either. What about Lethal Drug? I like that one a lot. And what about Flags? It wouldn't be the first time a Japan-only song is released worldwide.

I think Lethal Drug may be the same as a song called Love In A Lethal Dose that was left off of MX. So maybe Coldplay could revisit it and then release the leaked version of Lethal Drug as an "Avicii mix" bonus track or something. Or they might want to leave Lethal Drug alone out of respect for Avicii.

1 hour ago, Beckett B said:

I think that Music of the Spheres is definitely going to have spatial rhythms, maybe it has a lot of synths, and I also think it has something to do with Los Unidades

Why would they put/hide something related to a Los Unidades project in the Everyday Life booklet?

Edited January 22, 20215 yr by Gideon_Mx

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Edited April 30, 20215 yr by DJK

I was thinking that U.F.O that Chris mentioned could be related to the outro that can be heard from minute 2:00 in the song U.F.O by Mylo Xyloto ?

3 hours ago, WskCarlosG said:

I was thinking that U.F.O that Chris mentioned could be related to the outro that can be heard from minute 2:00 in the song U.F.O by Mylo Xyloto ?

I've always liked that little outro. It reminds me of Poppyfields.

UFO 2 and the reworked Us Against The World make me think that MOTS is going to be a sort of sequel to Mylo Xyloto. Kind of like how Everyday Life feels like a sequel to Viva with all the strings and the experimentation.

5 hours ago, WskCarlosG said:

I was thinking that U.F.O that Chris mentioned could be related to the outro that can be heard from minute 2:00 in the song U.F.O by Mylo Xyloto ?

I think that outro was just a bridge to Princess of China. Because that guitar sounds too much like Acoustic version of the song that released later.

On 1/21/2021 at 8:50 PM, DJK said:

Just out of curiosity, has anybody been keeping a running list of unreleased songs that might appear on this album? E.g.:

1) The Race
2) Us Against the World [reworked and "finished" as Chris mentioned in Together at home]
3) UFO (#2)

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Edited January 22, 20215 yr by driftaguy

On 1/21/2021 at 8:50 AM, DJK said:

Just out of curiosity, has anybody been keeping a running list of unreleased songs that might appear on this album? E.g.:

1) The Race
2) Us Against the World [reworked and "finished" as Chris mentioned in Together at home]
3) UFO (#2)

Maybe Life is Beautiful?