Coldplay head to Los Angeles for recording and mixing as more details of LP5 emerge

Coldplay are flying to LA today to finish recording and mixing the as-yet-untitled record, according to various Australian media sources today. This follows a string of promo events down under, over the past 24 hours. While Coldplay performed several songs at Splendour that are expected to make the fifth album, LP5 remains unfinished despite having an anticipated released date of October.

Guy Berryman also spoke to Triple J in which he confirmed the album would be released in October following mixing in Los Angeles, and that Major Minus would be part of the tracklist. You can discuss this promo interview listen back to the podcast at the LP5 sub-forum now [thanks joshtimo]

Meanwhile, according to the Perth Now website, Chris has wrote a new song called Up In Flames last week, which is being rush-recorded to make the tracklisting. "You know when you're finished," Chris said yesterday. "We don't need to write any more songs now. We were feeling like we were missing one, that was it. It's basially quite a schizophrenic record. We're still putting it together. There's some very loud stuff, some very quiet stuff, it's seeing if they can live in harmony together."

The band played a swag of new songs at Splendour which are among the 16 songs that may make the album including Hurts Like Heaven, Us Against the World and Charlie Brown. "It's a baptism of fire in the greatest sense," Martin said of Coldplay's run on the festival circuit this year. "People are obviously on your side because they're coming to watch you. So you know if they don't respond to the new songs they're probably shite. Or if everyone starts yawning. It's fun doing these festivals. It's a nice way of reintroducing yourself to the audiences and reintroducing yourself to the idea of coming back with something new. It's a different pressure to trying to sell out an arena or a stadium on your own. You feel you have the safety net of your peers around you. Even if we're shit at Splendour people got to see Pulp."

Martin also joked about persistent rumours of a solo album. "I'm doing a jazz barbershop record with me, Bono, Beyonce and the Kaiser Chiefs. We're doing all songs by the Living End. Mainly Australian and Austrian folk songs. But it's my solo record, those other people are just bit players. I'm hoping to get George Bush to do the spoken introduction too. I can finally leave these bunch of idiots. I've been carrying them too long." he said.

New photos of Coldplay - Splendour In The Grass festival, Australia (31st July, 2011):