Famous Old Painter

planetacoldplay has a whole bunch of song snippets and photos from the shoot So is it two weeks until the video or two weeks until the song release in general? If so they're really dragging it out

They're filming here Giving me EL vibes

I'm being cautious here. In the leadup to MOTS I was 100% convinced it would be better than AHFOD. My reasoning was sound, I think. Max Martin is a much better producer than Stargate, Coloratura alone kicks the crap out of everything on AHFOD, Higher Power and Human Heart were lovely songs, and POTP was The Man Who Swears (a Viva era tune) so it must be good. I specifically said at the time "the only way it's worse than AHFOD is if everything we haven't heard yet absolutely sucks". Then lo and behold. That's a bit unfair. Infinity Sign is one of my favourite Coldplay tunes ever and Humankind is a fun song. But still, I learned a valuable lesson.

This seems to confirm that the soundcheck song is indeed on Moon Music, thank god. By process of elimination I'm guessing it's probably Man in the Moon.

They're filming a video in Athens

To be fair Phil's not gonna come out and say "To be honest I think the new album's a bit crap, I much prefer their older stuff" is he?

Chris introduced All My Love by saying "You weren't supposed to hear this until September" so I wouldn't expect it any sooner

If they're not releasing the single soon, why put the teaser out? Why not delay the teasers if it's not ready yet? Weird behaviour.

I'm willing to bet the single will be out sometime next week, hopefully alongside the album announcement. It would be strange to tease the single now and not release it for another fortnight. They're getting a bit of press coverage for the snippet now and it would be weird if they chose not to capitalise on that momentum.

Theoretically they could do a digital release first and roll out the vinyl a few months later, but I don't see Warner wanting to fragment the release that way as it may negatively effect chart numbers. So we're probably looking at the end of the year

https://x.com/coldplayxtra/status/1799195685197164748 Phil thinks it's their best album ever (aka standard PR) and that an announcement is soon. But they're still putting finishing touches on it (still!), the FLIFIL mix isn't quite finished, and that the amount of time it then takes to manufacture and distribute vinyl means the release date is still a little while off.

Someone posted this on reddit Yes, I enjoyed it a lot. Still being mixed and not the final version we heard tonight, but if the rest of the album is like this, I’m really looking forward to it. Had a hopeful feel to it, which is much needed these days. It sounded more stripped back than the newer stuff, while still having elements of it. It made me feel the way I felt listening to them ~15 years ago. Not sure if it was the atmosphere or what, but the whole night was magical. I like something in most of their songs, but I haven’t felt the way I used to feel, while listening to them in a while. This one was immediate. I hope the final mix is similar to what we heard tonight. No problem, we were really lucky tonight. Happy to share what I can because I think a lot of people will like this one.

Where is that from?

Which fans are saying this? I haven't seen a single one, unless they're exclusively talking about the fans who happen to be working in the NME office today.

I was looking around for articles hoping maybe something else had been revealed, and found this one from the NME https://www.nme.com/news/music/first-time-watch-coldplay-share-teaser-of-new-single-3763739 Coldplay have shared a teaser of a new single, which appears to be titled ‘First Time’ – check out the clip below. The 20-second snippet was posted to the band’s Instagram account earlier today (June 7), with the simple caption reading: “first time”. It would be the band’s first new material since 2021’s ‘Music Of The Spheres’. It also comes with the hashtag #FLIFIL – which fans believe is an acronym for their new album. Safe to say NME don't have any information to reveal

Why do I get the feeling we're going to be saying this many, many times

There was at least one person who thought the racist FLIFIL was real 😳

I can see why the leak community enjoys feeding us obvious bullshit now

I feel like something along the way hasn't gone to plan. Surely they were supposed to play new music at Big Weekend, why would they have promoted it with MM teasers? But for some reason the MM rollout has been delayed. But if that's the case, why the new profile pics and teasers on streaming services? This band, man.

So there's definitely not going to be a release at midnight in Australia tonight. It's possible there'll be something later during Friday GMT, but honestly I'm thinking maeli is right. There's not enough activity right now for a single to be imminent. Maybe next Friday?

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You raise a good point. Zane Lowe would be hyping this up to hell and back wouldn't he

It's Thursday afternoon in Australia. So we're either around 24 hours away from the first new Coldplay music in years or we're 24 hours away from being clowned again 🤡

I really hope you're not listening to the ai fake with all the slurs

That's not the fake tracklist we're referring to. There was one posted to the other site a few weeks ago. The YouTube tracklist I currently believe to be the correct one, or at least the closest to being correct.