This is from "Crash Records" website:

With over 100m albums sold & 30 billion streams to date, the biggest band in the world are back with this irresistible pop anthem. Produced by Max Martin, Higher Power looks set to take over the airwaves and become the soundtrack to the summer! Available digitally and as a strictly limited edition, 1-track CD single.

anyone else just get a promotional email from coldplay about higher power, signing off with "This joy IS electric -The Coldplay Messenger"

7 minutes ago, United said:

This is from "Crash Records" website:

With over 100m albums sold & 30 billion streams to date, the biggest band in the world are back with this irresistible pop anthem. Produced by Max Martin, Higher Power looks set to take over the airwaves and become the soundtrack to the summer! Available digitally and as a strictly limited edition, 1-track CD single.

Probably gonna be a very Orphans/ASFOS-ish song "soundtrack to the summer" screams more pop-ish, happy, Coldplay song about love, and I'm so ok with that, with the year we just had and the light at the end of the tunnel I think it's exactly the type of Coldplay song to have during what would be the first normal summer in 2 years haha (Speaking as a Canadian here lol)

Edited April 29, 20215 yr by prco1994

1 minute ago, prco1994 said:

Probably gonna be a very Orphans/ASFOS-ish song "soundtrack to the summer" screams more pop-ish, happy, Coldplay song about love, and I'm so ok with that, with the year we just had and the light at the end of the tunnel I think it's exactly the type of Coldplay song to have during what would be the firs tnormal summer in 2 years haha

little off topic, but here summer will still be anything but normal (northwest united states) my state is still very restrictive of what we can do ? the hope is that everything will be back to normal this fall or winter though

31 minutes ago, Liam said:

Not sure how i feel about that to be honest, i've just quickly looked at some of the songs max martin has produced or co-written ?

At least it will likely be a huge hit;)

On the shop the litograph is to be released in June.

This makes me believe that we get the single May 7th and the Album drops in June with the same name.

Just now, Teardrop said:

On the shop the litograph is to be released in June.

This makes me believe that we get the single May 7th and the Album drops in June with the same name.

Quite possible if the single is the album's title track and whe get a full "Higher Power" album announcement when the song is out May 7... 

I feel for others in places that aren't ready to reopen. My state reopens fully on May 28 so this era is really gonna be tied into returning to normal life. 

Just now, Sonic85 said:

I feel for others in places that aren't ready to reopen. My state reopens fully on May 28 so this era is really gonna be tied into returning to normal life. 

Same for me, I am in Montreal, our province just announced vaccination for all as of tomorrow through May, so this is definitely gonna be a normal summer for us, I wish only but progress and good wishes to everyone else, this Coldplay era needs to be associated with the positives of coming out of this ugly time we've been in!

Does anybody have any idea what Jon's jacket says here? Maybe it could be the title of a new song or something.  I think the last letter is a Kaotican H but it's a little hard to tell. 

 

Edited April 29, 20215 yr by coldplaymakesmyday

so am I reading the fine print that says there will be a choir on this track ?

 

 

Just now, deltadon said:

so am I reading the fine print that says there will be a choir on this track ?

 

 

Same one as they had in BrokEn on EL if I'm not mistaken

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but FFTF 2024 means Fit For The Future, it is an environmental campaign that Coldplay is linked. It starts in 2021 and ends in 2024.

1 hour ago, stephen said:

COLDPLAYING IS THE GOAT

The merch is making it seem as if Higher Power will be the name of the album. So Music of the Spheres may be a future album?

Or is HP just the lead single and MOTS will be the album? It's just a bit confusing to me since there is a lithograph and clothing with Higher Power, just like other merch will full album art on them.

Thoughts??

Sadly I was late to the party oh well... Here's my translation in MS PAINT. Didnt bother to read the other posts.

Edited April 29, 20215 yr by TealAppeal

To come back to the symbols theory, I now fully buy into one of the early theories, which is that they represent the singles.

I believe 4 symbols represent the singles and 1 the album.

Firstly, they are pretty much the only aspect of this whole concept that we haven't really cracked. The codes we deciphered, the signals and messages...all of them referred either to Higher Power or to the Coldplay universe, so we had the necessary context and keys to understand. But we haven't been able to crack the symbols properly. That must be because we don't have the elements to read them properly, meaning that this is about future, not past content.

Then, the symbols are shown in different orders. But that could mean either order on the tracklist or in order of release, so it  makes sense to have them appear in different orders.

Now as for the specific symbols:

- The spiral, as user @CP-EST has pointed out, could actually refer to the notion of a higher power. This signal is at the bottom of the 5 symbols list on the single cover art (suggesting it's the first single?)

- The atoms, the infinity sign, the triangles : 3 other singles.

- The sparks : the sparks have appeared in different ways on the content we have seen. But what's interesting is that the spark/star appears separate from the rest on the alienradio website. Like it's a different link than the 4 other ones. This leads me to be believe it could perhaps symbolize the album. Also on the single cover art, it's at the top of the list!

Anyway, probably stating the obvious but i feel i can see more clearly now  

2 minutes ago, ColdplayingMama said:

The merch is making it seem as if Higher Power will be the name of the album. So Music of the Spheres may be a future album?

Or is HP just the lead single and MOTS will be the album? It's just a bit confusing to me since there is a lithograph and clothing with Higher Power, just like other merch will full album art on them.

Thoughts??

The band just spent 2 years i think (or at least what feels like 2 years  ) in a giant legal battle to be able to use MOTS on all sorts of merch and content. I believe that it has to be the album, or if it's not the album, then it's the tour. But Coldplay name their tour after their album....So it's gotta be it.

Clearly they have extremely high expectations for Higher Power and they want to use it as much as possible, hence all the merch. 

1 minute ago, Coeurli said:

The band just spent 2 years i think (or at least what feels like 2 years  ) in a giant legal battle to be able to use MOTS on all sorts of merch and content. I believe that it has to be the album, or if it's not the album, then it's the tour. But Coldplay name their tour after their album....So it's gotta be it.

Clearly they have extremely high expectations for Higher Power and they want to use it as much as possible, hence all the merch. 

Not entirely true, considering we've had the twisted logic tour, so it could be a very plausable theory.

4 minutes ago, BerheavedTripod8 said:

Not entirely true, considering we've had the twisted logic tour, so it could be a very plausable theory.

A tour named after a song that was never played in front of an audience, at that. ? 

Maybe we should have a poll?!?!?!?! 

So with the outfits it looks like it's gonna be like MX 2.0 - which is fine with me cause I would pick MX over AHFOD any day. Ha! But then Orphans was suppose to be on this album and that song doesn't quite fit with the theme does it? Lol. 

I'm personally hoping that this album would be sounding like the sounds of All I Think About is You and ALIENS - and even Midnight. It fits with the spacey theme the boys seem to be going for and it would be something I would be more interested in. 

The merch of Higher Power is throwing me off too. All this for a single? Either it's going to be a massive hit, or we're just scratching the surface of what they will release.

4 minutes ago, shred said:

So with the outfits it looks like it's gonna be like MX 2.0 - which is fine with me cause I would pick MX over AHFOD any day. Ha! But then Orphans was suppose to be on this album and that song doesn't quite fit with the theme does it? Lol. 

I'm personally hoping that this album would be sounding like the sounds of All I Think About is You and ALIENS - and even Midnight. It fits with the spacey theme the boys seem to be going for and it would be something I would be more interested in. 

my favorite off of kaleidoscope ep was All I Can Think About Is You. listen to that one every few days

Who knows at this point. Like they said at the end of AHFOD tour: "From now on we're full of surprises". Maybe they've come up with a different or unusual format to releasing/promoting music. Personally loved the MX era because of all the colourful and vibrant shows, just like with AHFOD. 

8 minutes ago, shred said:

But then Orphans was suppose to be on this album and that song doesn't quite fit with the theme does it?

They do share the same producer though. Them saying it was written early 2020 sound like this certainly wasn't the first song they've written for this release.

Could it possibly be an album called "Higher Power, Music of The Spheres"

Or something like that, kind of like they did with "Viva La Vida or Death And All Of His Friends"

The album could also be called Higher Power with Music Of The Spheres being just a song on the album.

Or the album is called Music Of The Spheres and they just think Higher Power is great and want to promote it A LOT.