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🌙 COLDPLAY ANNOUNCE MOON MUSIC OUT OCTOBER 4TH 🎵
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    Coldplay Announce 'Moon Music' | New Album Coming October 4th

    Coldplay have today announced the release of their highly-anticipated tenth album, Moon Music. The record will land in stores and on streaming services on October 4, 2024.

    The album's first single, feelslikeimfallinginlove, will be released globally on Friday, June 21. The single can be presaved here. The band performed the song for the first time last night during their sold out stadium show at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna - see video here.

    Moon Music, which was produced by Max Martin, is available to pre-order everywhere now, with a limited number of hand-signed editions available from the official Coldplay Store, at store.coldplay.com.

    NEW FORMATS AND NEW SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS

    In tandem with Coldplay’s ground-breaking sustainability measures on their current tour - which has so far produced 59% less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour - the band have gone to great lengths to make the physical release of Moon Music as sustainable as possible.

    This will be the world's first album released as a 140g EcoRecord LP, with each copy made from 9 recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste. This will prevent the manufacture of more than 25 metric tonnes of virgin plastic, and provide an 85% reduction in manufacturing process CO2 emissions/kg compared to traditional 140g vinyl.

    Additionally, the band have collaborated with long-time partners The Ocean Cleanup to create an additional format: the Notebook Edition EcoRecord LP. The rPET for this edition comprises 70% river plastic, intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, and prevented from reaching the Gulf of Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean. Check out The Ocean Cleanup’s video about the process here.

    The CD editions of Moon Music will be the world’s first to be released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate, sourced from post-consumer waste streams. This will provide at least a 78% CO2/kg emission reduction, and avoid the manufacture of more than five metric tonnes of virgin plastic.

    LIMITED FIRST EDITION RELEASE

    In an effort to reduce waste, the first edition run of Moon Music (both EcoRecord LP and EcoCD) will be strictly limited and produced at a higher specification than any future editions. All First Edition EcoRecord LP products will be individually numbered.

    Moon Music is available to pre-order now in four physical formats, all clearly marked as First Edition, with all EcoRecord rPET LP products individually numbered:

    • Standard EcoCD
    • Standard EcoRecord LP
    • Notebook Edition EcoCD
    • Notebook Edition EcoRecord LP + EcoCD

    The Notebook Edition (EcoCD and EcoRecord LP) comes as a casebound hardback book. The book is a faithful replica of Chris Martin’s original studio notebook, featuring 28 pages of unseen notes, lyrics and illustrations from the album’s writing and recording process. The Notebook Edition also includes additional voice notes and demos from the album’s recording sessions, providing a special insight into the music’s development.

    All formats are available to pre-order now on the band’s Official Store, with a limited number of hand-signed versions available, at store.coldplay.com.

    Moon Music is Coldplay’s first album since 2021’s Music Of The Spheres, which spawned the US Number One single with BTS, My Universe, and was nominated for Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Music Of The Spheres has already accumulated more than four billion streams.

     

    afilmforthefuture

    Back when Everyday Life was released, the middle page of the album booklet contained a teaser for the band's next album 'Music of The Spheres' which had not yet been announced at the time. The image also showed a vintage car with the numberplate showing 'FFTF2024'.

    Fans have long speculated over the last 5 years or so about the meaning of this. With today's announcement of Moon Music, we now know a bit more information!

    Coldplay have shared links for pre-ordering and pre-adding their latest album on various streaming services. Interestingly, the iTunes link includes a trailer for a film titled afilmforthefuture.

    This development sheds light on the enigmatic teaser from Everyday Life, providing fans with a clearer understanding of the band's long-term vision and the meaning behind 'FFTF2024'.

     

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    • The Jordanator
      🌙 Coldplay: Moon Music 🎵 | Out October 4th | Discussion

      By The Jordanator · Posted

      Don’t sell the tickets. Just go.    Also Sparks, Fix You, The Scientist and God Put a Smile Upon Your Face are either regular or rotating on the setlists currently for oldplay fans. The songbook section can also mean piano renditions of Don’t Panic, Trouble, Til Kingdom Come are all possibilities (granted it’s mainly been Everglow and Magic though)
    • lennyrott1
      🌙 Coldplay: Moon Music 🎵 | Out October 4th | Discussion

      By lennyrott1 · Posted

      Totally! That nostalgia definitely hits me. Viva & X&Y were so important to me during formative years, and I have to wonder if newer albums have the same affect on the younger generation or if the age of streaming has done away with that level of singular fandom. And generally yeah I feel ike there was this burst of creative spirit on MX with a huge leap towards mainstreamism and looking back, it should have been obvious they weren't going to release experimental rock after collaborating with Rihanna. But on the other hand, as a huge fan of Radiohead and some of the side projects (like The Smile)  I can at least acknowledge Coldplay delving into a bunch of random genres is creative in a way, given Thom Yorke has been making virtualy the same exact music for the past 10+ years.  And for the concert, we'll see! If I don't, I plan on selling them face value so someone else can experience them. The main reason I bought them is (god bless Coldplay) the prices were super reasonable for good seats and there wasn't any price fluctuations. I saw them in 2016 and it was awesome but the setlist is largely the same now minus some of the C-stage oldies they did on that tour. 
    • nvdmm
      🌙 Coldplay: Moon Music 🎵 | Out October 4th | Discussion

      By nvdmm · Posted

      Thank you for your beautifully put response. I agree with all the points you mentioned. I know we've talked about this a lot, especially in the Oldplaying section, but I think my conviction of what could have been is even more resolute now. I was listening to Swallowed in the Sea today on repeat since the morning and just experienced an overwhelmingly melancholic sense of longing for the band I fell in love with as a teenager. I think we as a generation WATNED them to give us more of Parachutes, more of AROBTTH, more of X&Y. Our obsession with them began 20 years ago exactly BECAUSE of who and what they were. And the same goes for our other favourite bands, be it Travis or Porcupine Tree or Radiohead etc. But I think we're now at a point where we can recognize what those bands did correctly to lament their critical legacy, and also confidently identify Coldplay's reasons for this monumental shift in identity, which wasn't what they and specially Chris claimed for so long; that this was all an elaborate plan to become more "creative"!  But as I said, it deeply saddens me to think about what we would have been treated to instead. I still hold a thread of hope that for their final album we might get to hear at least some of that "could have been"! And by the way, I think you should definitely go to their concert in June. The last one I went to was in 2008 because for me their performance has to connect emotionally to justify the huge price-tag, so I'm holding out until their last tour for their final album, but if you've already bought tickets then I think Yellow and Clocks alone are definitely worth your precious time😊
    • lennyrott1
      🌙 Coldplay: Moon Music 🎵 | Out October 4th | Discussion

      By lennyrott1 · Posted

      Good to hear from you on this, nvdmm. I do think your last point rings espescially true for me, even though I generally like Moon Music as an album and think most of the songs are solid enough. Thre's really no incentive for them to change their formula very much and at this point it feels like they are either just doing general modern pop music or rehashing sounds from earlier in their career to less success. What I find perplexing about MM is in the inconsistency of sound and I think this continues to be the biggest issue they've had since 2015. Chris just wants to be the best at everything and so the albums feel sonically inconsistent. Moon Music definitely fairs better than MOTS though, but that's a pretty low bar to jump. These feel more like Coldplay playlists than albums, in my opinion and Everyday Life was borderline there too.  If you take Moon Music, Alien Hits/Alien Radio, One World and A Wave, you have a Coldplay album that is chanelling Sigur Ros, balancing sadness hope and beauty with orchestral transitions and distorted guitars. I wish the album was just 42 minutes of those sounds. But then Good Feelings, Aeterna, Man in the Moon and FLIFIL, you have a straight pop and dance album . AML, Karate Kid and iAAM are classic Coldplay, which is great to hear but I'd rather listen to the old stuff.  We Pray is collab Coldplay and Jupiter is acoustic/indie Coldplay. The production value song to song varies wildly. It is clear they recorded it across the world and there isn't that live recording, organic sound for most of the album.  But I genuinely do think the album has a great self-help vibe for pop music and it tells a sort of arc about overcoming challenges and embracing love, in the vaguest sense. I've listened to it a lot and I think it's a 7-8/10 for me as a fan.  Overall, I'm kind of hoping the MOTS Era Wraps up soon and they get back to more focused records that feel more down to earth. I have tickets to a show in June I may not be able to actually attend, and I find myself a bit "meh" anyways because the setlist was so similar to the last tour and I'm not dying to see POTP or Higher Power, honestly. If they end up inserting songs like Man in the Moon, Humankind, One World, Aeterna or iAAM I'd be way more motivated to go, I just don't see that happening.   
    • WaddleBurr
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      By WaddleBurr · Posted

      It is nice to see a thread dedicated to one of my other favorite bands (even if it is from 2006). Anyway, has anyone else that still visits this website listen/heard of these guys?
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