Coldplay & The Bunnymen: Chris Martin to collaborate on McCulloch's new album

Chris Martin is to feature on the new Echo & The Bunnymen album, it has been claimed. Coldplay's lead singer is known to be a huge fan of Ian McCulloch and sings on an undisclosed track off "The Fountain", reports Yahoo Music (UK & Ireland)..

Echo And The Bunnymen announced details of their forthcoming (eleventh) studio album "The Fountain". The UK act also confirmed several live dates in the UK. "The Fountain" is the band's first studio album since 2005's "Siberia" and will be released on October 12. A single, "I Think I Need It Too", was due to be released in August 2008 (!) but will be released on September 28, 2009 instead. The album was produced by John McLaughlin in the Parr Street Studios in Liverpool (before they were burnt down). It is known that Chris Martin has collaborated with the band on one of the album's tracks.

More news on this collaboration can be found at the Coldplay forum here onwards. This comes just a few days after it was announced that Chris had co-written three tracks on Natalie Imbruglia's new album. [thanks clisaj & lostsides]

Chris recently revealed his dismay at giving Natalie Imbruglia a track that he claims could have been the "best Coldplay song ever". The song is expected to be the first single from Imbruglia's forthcoming new album 'Come To Life', and may be titled 'Scars'. "A bit annoyingly we've given her the best Coldplay song of all time," Martin joked to Heraldsun.com.au. "But because we're off-cycle we can't do it ourselves. Half of me wishes we still had it. But she sounds fucking brilliant on it. I think she has a very unique talent and an incredibly unique voice."

More photos from Coldplay's set at All Points West festival, Liberty State Park, New Jersey (2nd August 2009):