The abridged Fantastico interview that was aired last month for TV Globo in Brazil has been released in full online, and in it Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland talked at length about the new record due in December, and how previous album reviews have shaped the way they go about the recording process. Watch (in English) the full 20 minute Fantastico interview with Chris and Jonny in the first post of the thread here at the Coldplay forum. You can also find links to download the full interview in the Multimedia forum here [thanks SueDeNimes, iriden & mimixxx]
Coldplay are currently working on new material for their next album in their studio in London after arriving back from their Latin America tour last week. So what of the new record? Chris Martin seems convinced that it will be a success, but the band won't be releasing anything until they're ready. He said, "We'll make sure now we don't release anything until we're 100% convinced by it. Why do we sell records? I don't know but we try as hard as we can to make them good. The one we're making now is really good - it probably won't sell a lot because people don't buy records any more, but it's got good songs on it."
Talking specifically about the New York Times review of X&Y back in 2005, Chris Martin said, "We decided not to read reviews of the Viva la Vida album, because we reached a point where whatever we do someone will like it and someone will hate it. You can't change that. We'll do a show and however good that show is, someone will say it's too big, or whatever. And we started working [again] with Brian Eno, and we have our fifth member Phil [Harvey] and we trust their opinions so much that if something is geniunely bad we'll trust them they'll tell us before we release it. At the time when we had the New York Times thing we didn't have those two people to give us that feedback, so we were a little lost at that time. That's why those reviews were depressing but ultimately they were very constructive and useful. I agreed with a lot of it [NYT review] but we're better now than we were then."
Talking further about their EMI record contract, Chris Martin stressed the importance of having the support of the label. "What success lets you do is have complete freedom when we go back into the studio. We feel more excited about making music than ever because we know that if we do something good some people will enjoy it. It's a great thing to have a record contract, it's what every band dreams about. But ours does last until we die, basically. I wouldn't change it because we're having a great time. I would maybe change some of the figures! Artistically, they give us total freedom."
The band also took a rare opportunity to speak out about the whole Joe Satriani plagiarism affair, that was settled out of court, insisting that it has made the band stronger. Chris told the interviewer: "That thing is painful for us, because it's just something that is not true and it's happened to us five times now on the same song - where someone says that 'you took their song' - five different people with the same song. And it also happens to be our most successful song... no-one ever says we stole our unsuccessful songs! But the good side of that was that after that whole embarassment we thought we'd better write some even better songs. So in two years time if anyone looks at that information and say, 'this band have got 57 great songs, and these people who say they wrote Coldplay songs haven't. So it becomes very inspiring."
Coldplay are currently working on new material for their next album in their studio in London after arriving back from their Latin America tour last week. Although no exact date yet has been given, nor has it been given a title, lead singer Chris Martin confirmed that they hope to release the next Coldplay album at the end of 2010. "Hopefully this Christmas", Chris Martin said in the interview, when asked about releasing Coldplay's fifth album. It seems the band are progressing much quicker with the recording process that first anticipated by fans. It was also confirmed in the interview that Coldplay's next record would not be the last with ailing record label, EMI, and they wouldn't be doing a 'Radiohead'. "We signed for a lot [of records], it won't be the last one. We're 'owned', we can't do anything without asking someone's permission."
He stressed that extra measures have been taken to make sure no songs leak online before the intended release date: "There are only two people in the whole building who know how to open all the recording files. Even we (Coldplay) don't know how to do it. We couldn't even steal our own music at the moment. You would have to be a computer genius and a great burglar to get into the building, and download it, and mix it, and possibly record some vocals. You need to be a very advanced thief at the moment to get to our music," Chris said.
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