🪐 Coldplay: Music of the Spheres 🪐 | Out Now! | Discussion

[Coeurli]

To think that this year on my Christmas list there may be something Coldplay-related that's NOT overpriced candles! How exciting!  

[Miha]

The new era is surely here. I am assuming album will be out in a couple of months, but more likely a month after the first single (if the clues are correct the album is again 42 mins long so it wouldn't make sense to give that clue if it hadn't been finished). Glasto appearance is the best opportunity for them to premiere a couple of new songs. 

But I would again really say that I think the album will be ALL new material. I just don't see getting old (released) songs redone and put out again. I know what Chris had said but it could be interpreted differently. 

 

[Batman]

 

 

Who else got Apparatjik vibes from this?

[stephen]

34 minutes ago, Miha said:

The new era is surely here. I am assuming album will be out in a couple of months, but more likely a month after the first single (if the clues are correct the album is again 42 mins long so it wouldn't make sense to give that clue if it hadn't been finished). Glasto appearance is the best opportunity for them to premiere a couple of new songs. 

But I would again really say that I think the album will be ALL new material. I just don't see getting old (released) songs redone and put out again. I know what Chris had said but it could be interpreted differently. 

 

It will be interesting to see whether it'll all be new material. There's a few things that point to it being some old songs redone but I guess that happens every album. Arabesque was an old song right? A L I E N S was from the Viva era.

[stephen]

Just now, Batman said:

 

 

Who else got Apparatjik vibes from this?

Batman! always good to see you around 

[Captain Crieff]

5 minutes ago, Batman said:

 

 

Who else got Apparatjik vibes from this?

BATMAAAAAN

hi

 

..yes I kinda did too!

[Koleybolen]

7 minutes ago, stephen said:

It will be interesting to see whether it'll all be new material. There's a few things that point to it being some old songs redone but I guess that happens every album. Arabesque was an old song right? A L I E N S was from the Viva era.

A L I E N S is actually from 2010 when they kicked chris out the studio for 2 weeks during recording Mylo Xlyoto!

[stephen]

2 minutes ago, Koleybolen said:

A L I E N S is actually from 2010 when they kicked chris out the studio for 2 weeks during recording Mylo Xlyoto!

Was it not played during the South Bank Show in 2009 though?

[Koleybolen]

3 minutes ago, stephen said:

Was it not played during the South Bank Show in 2009 though?

Oh yes you’re right.. my bad

[Captain Crieff]

I'm far from convinced the signal is actually a melody, I still think it's words (or maybe a number and a word)

but it kinda has to be an existing code language because otherwise how do they want us to decipher this? I swear this goddamn thing has given me a migraine

[Coeurli]

Just now, Captain Crieff said:

I'm far from convinced the signal is actually a melody, I still think it's words (or maybe a number and a word)

but it kinda has to be an existing code language because otherwise how do they want us to decipher this? I swear this goddamn thing has given me a migraine

Yeah but it would be such a wild coincidence for it to happen to sound so similar to an actual existing coldplay melody AND specific words, wouldn't it?

i mean it would be genius and i wouldn't bet against phil

ok you have a point maybe

[stephen]

?What if it means nothing 

[#AnotherColdplayFan]

2 minutes ago, Captain Crieff said:

I'm far from convinced the signal is actually a melody, I still think it's words (or maybe a number and a word)

but it kinda has to be an existing code language because otherwise how do they want us to decipher this? I swear this goddamn thing has given me a migraine

Currently working on this with everyone on the google doc!

There are good things to consider about this (signal.svg)

1. Ellipses and rectangles are intentionally distinguished

2. It is connected to station 20 / ARFM_3 (type - featured)

You can get a better idea by going through the doc, but any help is greatly appreciated!

[Captain Crieff]

3 minutes ago, stephen said:

?What if it means nothing 

...and FFTF2024 means Fooling Fans 'Til Fucking 2024 *circus music starts*

 

no seriously, it has to mean something, everything on that website probably means something

[stephen]

Just now, Captain Crieff said:

...and FFTF2024 means Fooling Fans 'Til Fucking 2024 *circus music starts*

 

no seriously, it has to mean something, everything on that website probably means something

[jc90]

44 minutes ago, Batman said:

 

 

Who else got Apparatjik vibes from this?

ayyyyy welcome back!

[Almasmoothie]

https://alienradio.fm/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ARFM-4.mp3I found in the Google Docs file is in Estonian. Really rough translation: 

Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the use of machines in space, both to analyze in-orbit data and, for example, to detect various anomalies in satellite systems. 
In this context, we are interested in various machine accelerators, which are often not designed to work in harsh room conditions
September of 2020, we ran the first satellite which had a machine learning accelerator, Neon Moon / Neon Month / Neon Q, on it's board. It's an interesting time and we're exited!

Source: I'm Estonian.



 

Edited April 24, 2021 by Almasmoothie

[Carlaatje]

Could the frequencies be places they’ll tour? 

The dutch frequency is alice in wonderland there’s a dutch festival called down the rabbit hole, sales are to start may 1st. And more names are to be announced.

Could the scottish stand for glasto? Already announced of course. 

Altough I don’t know how realistic it would be to announce a tour during a pandemic

[Captain Crieff]

4 minutes ago, Carlaatje said:

Could the frequencies be places they’ll tour? 

The dutch frequency is alice in wonderland there’s a dutch festival called down the rabbit hole, sales are to start may 1st. And more names are to be announced.

Could the scottish stand for glasto? Already announced of course. 

Altough I don’t know how realistic it would be to announce a tour during a pandemic

pretty sure Coldplay are way out of Down The Rabbit Hole's league, if you look at recent headliners. And they're also not really the type of act they book  It'd be great though, I love that festival

Also why would the Scottish one be Glasto?

[Carlaatje]

2 minutes ago, Captain Crieff said:

pretty sure Coldplay are way out of Down The Rabbit Hole's league, if you look at recent headliners. And they're also not really the type of act they book  It'd be great though, I love that festival

Also why would the Scottish one be Glasto?

Yeahhh that’s my enthusiasm forgetting all about geography ?

agree that they would have outgrown down the rabbit hole, but who would have ever thought they’d play a live youtube session in jordan at sunset and sunrise... stranger things have happened.. 

[charliefix]

Hi everyone! This record https://alienradio.fm/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ARFM-6.mp3 is in Czech. It's not related to space or something, just two children's rhymes, which is kind of weird. They're called 'Šnečku, šnečku' and 'Polámal se mravenček'. It doesn't really make sense in english and some words in it are pretty outdated. Here is the rough transition: 

1) Snailing, snailing, stick out your horns,
I'll give you coin to buy cheese,
And a Groschen for tobacco,
A slacking sloven you shall be.

2) 

A little ant got broken,
The whole preserve knows about it,
At the midnight they called him,
An ants' doctor.

The doctor knocking on his heart,
Then writing a prescription:
"Sugar powder three times a day,
He'll be a fellow the likes of a lynx".

He was given powder per advice,
Yet the little ant lied ill,
The whole day he was on fire,
The whole night he spent weeping.

Four were standing at his bed,
Fifth one told him "do not cry,
I will blow your little pain away,
In the morning you'll be fine".

He blew at his little pain,
Stroked him gently on his head,
Hop and healthy little ant,
Jumps every morning from his bed.

[Captain Crieff]

1 hour ago, #AnotherColdplayFan said:

Currently working on this with everyone on the google doc!

There are good things to consider about this (signal.svg)

1. Ellipses and rectangles are intentionally distinguished

2. It is connected to station 20 / ARFM_3 (type - featured)

You can get a better idea by going through the doc, but any help is greatly appreciated!

Okay so I opened the svg file in Illustrator and the ellipses and rectangles (all separate layers) are indeed in a seemingly half-random order:

• the first layers are the bottom 2 "long" rectagles
• then all the ellipses and rectangles on the last two rows, but not in a logical order light left to right or right to left or column per column, it seems random
• then the middle 2 "long" rectangles
• then the ellipses and rectangles on row 2 and 3, again not in a logical order
• then the top 2 "long" rectangles
• then the ellipses and rectangles on the first row, again not in a logical order

is there a simple way of converting the file to an animated gif or so that adds all the layers one by one? maybe it shows a pattern or so, idk. No idea how to do it myself, this is actually the first time I've touched a svg file

This probably isn't going anywhere and I've put way too much thought in this but hey, it's not like we have something better to do, right?

[LVI56]

Fun to be back for another era.

Some of my thoughts/ideas on some of the puzzles.

The scrolling message at the bottom: One thing that it led me to is the Wow! Signal and the Arecibo message. The message we sent to space was in binary format, which if laid out on a grid is similar, but the circles are throwing me off to crack it.

The bouncing circles on the right side of the page: Is each one a track from the album. 11 tracks, (four filled in) so 4 singles? They move at difference speeds though. Maybe corresponding to track length?

[atlas2000]

2 hours ago, Batman said:

 

 

Who else got Apparatjik vibes from this?

long time no see 

[Stanz2500]

Yall, the dots on the side in ARFM have some that are solid and some that are open. Yesterday there were 3 solid and 7 open. Now its 4 solid and 6 open.