Chris Martin and Will Champion performed two songs from the forthcoming Coldplay album last night (January 27th) to a music industry audience at London's Whitfield Street Studios.
Reported by Music Week, the band's frontman and drummer appeared as part of a presentation night by their record label Parlophone. According to the magazine, the pair swapped their usual on-stage instruments for acoustic guitars for the two-song performance.
Martin began by announcing that the band's new album was still not finished. By way of an introduction, he said: "The point is, it's [the album] going to be good, but don't judge it on what you hear tonight because we're playing track 12, which is very obscure, which is the only one we can do at the moment."
This untitled track 12 was later described by Martin as "our Johnny Cash song". The pair then concluded their set with another new song, introduced as "A Message".
The night also featured other short sets from fellow Parlophone acts The Departure, Idlewild and Athlete along with sneak previews of new tracks from the forthcoming second Gorillaz album.
Coldplay recently premiered six new tracks to the NME titled "Square One", "Talk", "'Til Kingdom Come", "X&Y", "What If" and "The Hardest Part". The magazine claimed they were heavily influenced by '70s electronic records by Brian Eno and Kraftwerk, as well as David Bowie and Bob Dylan.
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