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Hey! Can I ask what Alphabetica is? Because in one interview for Moon Music (I think the one with Zane Lowe) Chris hinted at a possible unreleased material album as one of the possible works the band might undertake once the final album has been released. Are you referring to this? That's all I know about it by the way!

Wow! Where did you hear those?? Can you please DM me a link? Or if you can't share anything, please tell us more about the songs! Thanks in advance!

Well, I get your point, and like you I believe that the band does what they want and are not being controlled by Max at all. If not by the fact that he chose which songs to work on and added his own stuff to their music, I mean. But I have to remember that someone from the band (perhaps Guy, but someone please help me with a source here, ahaha!) said that "Coloratura" was the song Max touched the least and that, if it was for him, he would have cut it to a 3 min piece. Thanks for the insight about Will's vocals, though. I'm also very excited about that song!

Brian Eno?? 😯😍

"Christmas Lights" a masterpiece from the Wedding Album sessions.

Aiko, one of the Mylo Xyloto characters (and the title of an unreleased song...)

Whatever the next chapter in the MOTS album series might be, I honestly have very low expectations (which is good so that I could easily be surprised by what they will put out). The point is that their recent music lacks imperfection. It is so polished and glossly produced that it feels almost lifeless to me. Take for instance the beginning of "Rainy Day" or "Life is For Living", that imperfection, that makes those songs really shine. They feel real, you can feel human hands playing material instruments, real vocals that sound imperfectly human. So we will see, but they seem to have chosen a clear direction in MOTS and apparently they will be following it in their future releases, with Max as producer.

Yes, there was also a post by Nile Rodgers where he said he had been working with them on some new stuff last year. Well, you're not alone in thinking this, ahahaha. I wish I could go back in time to see one of their Viva la Vida or Mylo shows, I was a kid back then. I discovered them much later.

Apparently presales start from tomorrow at 9:00 for coldplay.com subscribers. That's all I know basically. Anyway thanks to anyone who replied, you've been super-kind. Thanks!

Hi guys!! I've never been to a Coldplay concert and I was considering going to see them in Rome next year. However, at present none of my friends seem to be interested, so if I go I will go on my own, which does not sound really great, right? Ahaha, Especially given that a Coldplay concert is such a big event and you might feel a bit lost, alone in such a huge crowd. I wonder whether any of you has ever gone to a Coldplay concert on his own and what was his experience. Consider that I'm a bit shy and this certainly doesn't make me more resolute to go, ahaha. Any piece of advice/anecdote/personal experience will be very precious to me!

It depends, I enjoy playing with friends and having fun without taking it to seriously. Do you like listening to Coldplay interviews?

This is a tough one, but I'll probably go for french fries. Do you prefer listening to albums as a whole or creating your own compilation?

Hi guys! I was interested in this book, and I wanted to ask those who have it, "is it worth buying?" Does it contain interesting stuff from the Eno era (which I'm a massive fan of) and their music development during that time? Thanks in advanca to anyone answering!!

Yell, "A Spell, a Rebel ----"

Hi guys, So, I recently discovered these brief stories Coldplay uploaded on Spotify as part of the song description for all of the tracks on Music of the Spheres and I decided to upload everything here so that people that don't have or don't use Spotify can easily find and read them. Here they are, enjoy! _____________________________________ Music of the Spheres ~Track by track “Music of the Spheres” Planet: Neon Moon I Language: E.L. 1 Description: Holiday resort planet We worked on this album during the pandemic, when being able to tour felt a long way off. But we thought a lot about when we would be able to go on tour again. This opening track will probably also be the opening piece of music at the shows. _____________________________________ “Higher Power” Planet: Kaotica Language: Kaotican Description: The trash planet This song came to Chris one day when he was playing a drumbeat on a bathroom sink. He recorded it on his phone and took that to a piano and then the song just came out. We immediately reacted positively to the vibe of the song and it came together quite quickly. It’s always a good sign when something just falls together in the studio. We’ve been very pleased with the response to this one. It feels like a song the world maybe needed as we all emerged from being locked away for so long. _____________________________________ “Humankind” Planet: Echo Language: Mirror Text Description: The planet of duality The story of the making of this album is our partnership with its producer, Max Martin. Max came into one of our Paris sessions for Everyday Life and contributed to the song “Orphans”. We got on so well during that brief moment in Paris that we knew we wanted to do more with him. Max is an extremely nice person to be around – very funny, extremely talented and very detailed. He’s a songwriter and a producer and he really leans towards helping with the creation of a song. Max plays instruments too – he almost became like a guest member of the band for this album. "Humankind" is quite a big song. We’re excited to play it live. _____________________________________ “Alien Choir” Planet: Kubik Language: Q Block Description: The surreal planet We’ve been getting into doing musical segues like these between songs. It stops you having dead space in the record. _____________________________________ “Let Somebody Go” Planet: Calypso Language: Aquamarine Description: The water planet This is a really nice ballad, which Chris brought to the band pretty much fully formed. Of course, the song is a duet with Selena Gomez. We’ve been collaborating more and more with other artists over the last few albums. I think the songs lead us to the right people to work with on them. Selena just brings a different vibe and energy to the song, she sounds incredible. _____________________________________ “Human Heart” Planet: Supersolis Language: Supersolar Description: The fire planet This is a very unusual and interesting song, which Chris worked on with We Are KING and Jacob Collier. Jacob is very good at vocal arrangements and it just sounded so great and different. We didn’t really want to add any other instrumentation to it, we wanted to keep it this way. It was originally shorter than it is now, but Will pushed the idea of turning it into a full song. We Are KING’s voices work so well on this track. We’ve already done some shows with them and they’re amazing. _____________________________________ “People of the Pride” Planet: Ultra Language: Voltik Description: The storm planet This was taken from a song that was never finished, originally from the Viva sessions. We’ve had the verse for a long, long time. We took it off the shelf and found a way to finish it. We’ve always recorded a lot of music and there will be songs that don’t make it onto albums. And then they might be picked up later and we’ll try to finish them off. It definitely has a glam rock sound with the riff, but then it pivots into an orchestral arrangement. We’ve been playing it in rehearsals and it already sounds great live. _____________________________________ “Biutyful” Planet: Floris Language: Bloom Description: The plant planet This song was actually considered for Everyday Life. But it felt like it would be better for Music of the Spheres. The vocal on this one is quite processed and unusual. It’s supposed to sound like it’s an alien singing the song. "Biutyful" went through quite a few iterations before the final version. Max was really helpful in pushing this one over the line. _____________________________________ “Music of the Spheres II” Planet: Neon Moon II Language: E.L. 2 Description: Holiday resort planet The idea behind this album is trying to make the universal personal. When you look from the perspective of space, all of Earth’s borders and divisions seem crazy. Earth is just a tiny rock floating in the infinite. We decided to set this album in a distant solar system called The Spheres. There are 12 Spheres, each with its own language, character and alien population. Music is banned in the Spheres. But a character called DJ Lafrique defies the ban with Alien Radio. She has two key messages for her listeners: “Everyone is an alien somewhere”. And "We are AllOne in the universe". These two messages sum up the album’s philosophy. _____________________________________ “My Universe” Planet: Epiphane Language: Spheric Description: The effervescent planet Obviously the big story of this one is that it’s a collaboration with BTS. An interviewer asked them if there was anyone they’d like to collaborate with and they said us. And then they reached out. So when this song came along Chris asked if they’d like to sing on it. Some people were maybe surprised we worked with BTS but I don’t think we have any limitations now. A lot of people talk about how they’d rather hear us doing the kind of music we did 20 years ago. But we’ve done that and those albums exist for people to listen to. We love exploring different genres, working with other people and not being afraid to try things. We don’t feel like we have any constraints upon what we can and can’t do. And working with BTS has just been an incredible experience. _____________________________________ “Infinity Sign” Planet: Infinity Station Language: Infinitum Description: The robot planet We still really believe in making albums, it’s what we’ve grown up with. It’s kind of embedded in our DNA to think of a project as a body of work lasting 40 to 50 minutes. _____________________________________ “Coloratura” Planet: Coloratura Language: Coloraturan Description: The afterlife This is a very different song for us. It’s also the longest song we’ve ever made. It was originally a lot shorter and I think Chris felt he could push it and embellish it further. It’s ended up being almost like a classical arranged piece, with different musical sections. It was a puzzle that was pieced together quite carefully. It feels like a coherent journey from beginning to end. It’s complete prog and we love the performance nature of it. We’ve always been a bit wary of longer songs, but we’re really proud of this one. Once we had that longer version, it really felt like the right song to end the album on.

Hi guys! I've always been curious about Epworth's role during the production of Ghost Stories because (as far as I know) he has never been mentioned in interviews with the band from that period. Usually they discuss their relationship with producers, but not in this case. He is not even featured in the Making of Ghost Stories documentary. So I wonder if you know anything about that. Here's all I managed to discover. In this interview Epworth discusses his work with several artists and briefly mentions Coldplay, saying they did GS mostly by themselves but he advised them to use synthetic drums instead of acoustic ones. Don't get me wrong, I really like GS (it's probably my 3rd or 4th fav CP album), but if there is something that I really struggle to connect with is the drum machine, which sounds so lifeless to me, at least on certain tracks. If that's his main contribution to the record it might not be entirely positive. Obviously that's just my opinion! What do you think?

This is a difficult one because X&Y is one of my favourite songs off the album and I love the way the guitar kind of "sings" the second verse... ...but I'm a sucker for Viva la Vida, and The Goldrush features Will on lead vocals, so: The Goldrush vs. Till Kingdom Come

Ahahaha! Seriously though, I get your point. Swearing has become so gratuitous in mainstream pop music since the last decade that it has lost all its effectiveness. So the fact that Coldplay had avoided that trend was positive. But I agree with I Ran Away concerning EL. Basically, as you might already know, Chris used to write lyrics with swear words in the past as well, it was Will who usually asked him to "clean" them. However, EL is an album that deals with complex issues of our society such as racism, police brutality and gun control in the US, so it makes sense that in such a context an explicit language may be more effective in delivering Coldplay's frustration towards these issues. I agree that POTP is a different case and the use of swearing on that song is completely unnecessary and could have been easily avoided. Particularly given that, even if the lyrics deal with people's rights, the situation described seems more comical than serious as portrayed in that song. That's why I prefer the original demo The Man Who Swears, it seemed more consistent as a comical-philosophical dance-hall song than the heavy rock POTP.

U.F.O. one of the most interesting compositions on Mylo Xyloto

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Hey wonderful job! Thank you so much. Did you only use the live recordings or did you have the studio versions? I heard that some of them may have leaked.

Us Against the World vs Crests of Waves

Actually he was inducted by Chris in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame back in early 2014. And they performed together one of his songs at the ceremony!

Us Against the World vs Always In My Head

Ahahaha, this site is kind of a time machine, and old posts from a decade ago resurface now and then! I understand what you mean, I think that many Coldplay fans went down your path. Personally I became a very passionate fan in early 2014 and in many ways the band has changed my life deeply. I gave up a bit after a year and then went back to Coldplay early in 2021 and started digging through their discography, old interviews, etcetera. After the release of their last album, I became a bit disillusioned again. Now I might have reached some sort of balance where I have accepted that I don't have to like everything they do, or reject everything they have done in the past because I don't connect with their recent stuff. I still consider Viva la Vida to be my favourite album (and I listen to a lot of music!) but I must admit that I feel a bit embarassed telling people I'm a Coldplay fan because what I like is generally radically different from the idea most people have of the band. (does this make any sense?) Anyway it's funny that some of my favourite albums from the band, VLV, MX, actually are the firsts to have divided the fanbase and alienated some of the early followers.