Over six months on from Coldplay's Latin America tour, where are we up to with the 4th album? Here is Coldplaying.com's round-up of what's happened since early 2007...
On January 26, 2007, during an interview on BBC Radio 4's ''Front Row'', musician and producer Brian Eno revealed that he would be the producer for Coldplay's fourth album. The band confirmed this through a Question and Answer section on their official website.
In March 2007, famed producer Timbaland told GQ Magazine that he would be collaborating with the band on their next album.
On May 1, 2007, Coldplay.com was temporarily shut down. When the site was accessed, a note appeared atop an image of the previous site, reading: ''We are building a new site. It will be here VERY soon. Love, Coldplay.'' On June 18, 2007, the site was relaunched with a new design that resembled a journal timeline with hand written excerpts, pictures, and videos. As of August 16, 2007, the website did not contain any new official information on the new album such as release date and album title, but content found on the band's new site hinted that the new album title may be ''Prospekt''. The site also included notes on sessions with Eno and Markus Draagainevs, stating that the lyrics were "much more abstract, much more visual than before," and that the music is "less straight-forward, more oblique."
In July 2007 Coldplay revealed that the album seemed to be shaping up with Hispanic influences after having recorded in churches and other areas in Latin America and Spain, such as Barcelona. On their website, the band also described taking acoustic guitars and basic recording equipment to churches and experimenting with particular sounds. However, in the same note, it was stressed that the influence was not in any specific sound but a general feel to the songs taken as a whole.
On September 5, 2007, Coldplay revealed the track names of the new record on their website. It would be a short record (around 42 minutes) with approximately 9 songs, which will be chosen out of the following:
"Lost!"
"Cemeteries of London"
"Violet Hill"
"Poppy Fields"
"42"
"Yes!"
"Leftrightleftrightleft"
"Rainy Day"
Four other songs were written at various places throughout the list, but they were entirely blacked out, either indicating that they had been taken out of consideration, or the titles were not meant to be known.
On Friday, 21 September, Coldplay posted another London studio diary entry from Prospekt, who outlined the confidence the Coldplay members had in themselves and each other, and how each of the four bandmembers had matured musically. Here is how their latest diary entry read:
This is the album I always dreamed they would make. It's the sound of a band realizing their own strength. The sound of four men with total confidence in themselves and one another.
It's the sound of a songwriter at the peak of his ability. Lyrically and melodically, Chris seems to have broken through past constraints. There's a new confidence to venture beyond the limit of the known and comfortable. An urge to explore and discover. His energy is electrifying - sometimes intimidating. A manic bundle of love, passion, and rage. A veracious appetite for life, eagerly devouring every minute of every day. He knows that time is short.
Jonny, too, has explored a whole new universe of sounds magicking up a new world for each song. His guitars are all over this album. Will has manipulated, mashed and spliced beats and time signature to produce rhythms that lead rather than follow the song. Guy - always the tastemaker and musical authority of the band - has guided and shaped the whole process always pushing but unafraid to rein things in when necessary.
The four of them together make up a formidable unit, and this is the album people will remember them by.
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