Track transitions from stomping guitar chords to hushed vocals, indicating the rest of the album's atmospheric sound... (report MTV)
By the time Tuesday morning (April 29) rolls around, you're going to know what we're talking about. That's when Coldplay will post "Violet Hill" — the first single from their upcoming Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends album — on their official Web site for free download. (It's scheduled to happen at exactly 7:15 a.m. ET, FYI.) The move is rare for a band of such stature, not to mention a band of such major-label-tude. And while we applaud such forward thinking, we're also figuring that most Coldplay fans don't want to wait until Tuesday morning to climb "Violet Hill," so we're going to give you a preview right now.
And no, we haven't swung some sort of streaming deal with Capitol Records. Rather, this is a written preview of the track, which MTV News was lucky enough to hear last week — along with the rest of Viva — at the EMI headquarters here in New York. We're not allowed to write about the entire album just yet (suffice to say security is tight on this one), but we figured the time was right to dish some details about "Hill."
And while we realize that reading about a song doesn't compare to actually hearing it, what else are you gonna do for the next 15-odd hours?
Read the full article here [thanks IneedYou23]
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