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ahhh :) thanks for the clarification! i'm glad to hear that! sorry about the misunderstanding. sometimes it is hard to differentiate on text.

i wasn't around for the viva release, but i think there were some fans who labeled it too poppy and weren't pleased :) wonder what those people would think of the coldplay today.. well, i'd rather not :laugh3:

sad how the coldplaying community is sometimes used as just another instance of the general coldplay hate you can find anywhere else on the internet. i don't come here for that. a lot of people are saying how coldplay's changing styles made quite a few members leave the forum since viva, but what no one seems to mention is how certain posts can turn off fans, specially those who are more recent converts, from contributing or even hanging around here. i'm sure i'm guilty of such posts too. but just a thought.

it's tomorrow <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tomorrow, Chris Martin + an exclusive new record from <a href="https://twitter.com/coldplay">@Coldplay</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/erykabadu">@erykabadu</a> talks new mixtape + does an ... <a href="https://t.co/jbk8xptwKv">https://t.co/jbk8xptwKv</a></p>— Zane Lowe (@zanelowe) <a href="https://twitter.com/zanelowe/status/669560826408267776">November 25, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> x

wooohooo (x3)! we have a date.

to me imagine dragons are derivative of the coldplay sound. it's like saying u2 sound like coldplay to a u2 fan :laugh3:

hahaa! i beat her to it this time.

guess who got to share a circle? :laugh3:

aww.. chris and jonny together in the outer circle :)

something along the lines of "know what i've got/ x marks the spot"

it's nowhere nearly as out there as i pictured it after reading that article on it :laugh3: looking forward to hearing this!

aww.. fetus chris :wacko: yeah, i like that image too! maybe a little bit like this?

my favorite quote of the whole spread is :laugh3: too bad us fans never get to see mental chris. the closest probably was when he was hosting that radio show with simon pegg around the viva recording days.

how cute is this guy?? <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div> <p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-e8l8sgPUr/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Chris Martin treated us to his baby blue eyes and some new tunes at our #NYC studios today @iamchrismartin #coldplay #chrismartin @sxmspectrum #babyblues #AdventureofALifeTime #rock #celebrity #HeadFullofDreams @instagram : @marohagopian</a></p> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A photo posted by siriusxm (@siriusxm) on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-24T22:00:08+00:00">Nov 24, 2015 at 2:00pm PST</time></p></div></blockquote> <script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script> x

if anyone is interested, you can download the audio here.

thanks to the original source

changed the date in the thread.

HFTW really leaves me cold. not a fan of everglow yet either. quite a few clips make it hard to judge because they are too short. but army of one looks interesting. looking forward to that. how about you? any standouts yet? and btw, color spectrum looks like an instrumental so far.

you can already see it in some older songs. frankly, i do sometimes wonder about chirs' voice loosing it's magic, but then you see something like that tidal acoustic show, and you are blown away all over again!

if it does for you, then that would be great :) but for me, viva looks set to be untouchable, at least this era by the glimpses we've gotten. there are quite a few clips i'm not that enamoured with, at least for now. but birds, man, birds! loving it so far :) and if coldplay ever tops viva, now that would be an amazing day! :sneaky:

also, in terms of the range of soundscapes/genre, this looks set to rival viva. i'm talking about broadness rather than the quality of output. we'll have to wait and see (but don't think most people have doubts which is superior even by now :) ) still, this is shaping up to be better than mylo, a cousin (like someone said already), but able to distinguish itself.

gave me a good heart attack with that title. gonna change it.

Coldplay's Chris Martin opens up about band's jubilant new album 'It’s a bit like a finale, or a final scene,' the singer says of the group's seventh effort. After an intimate, introspective 2014 collection Ghost Stories, Coldplay is back next month with their seventh album, Head Full of Dreams, out December 4. “With what’s going on in the world, I feel very grateful to be alive and in a band with my best friends,” frontman Chris Martin tells EW of the set, which was produced with Norwegian pop production duo Stargate. Part of the good vibes are a result of the collaborations on the album. There’s a duet with ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow, spots from their children Apple and Moses, and vocals from Beyoncé and her daughter Blue Ivy. “She’s all goodness,” Martin says of working with Beyoncé who joins Martin for a track called “Hymn for the Weekend.” “This album is about celebrating and this angel figure kept popping up and I was thinking, ‘Gosh, Beyoncé would be perfect, but she’d never do it.’ One day, we were talking and I was trying to drop the hint, but I didn’t want to be imprudent. And she said I’ll do it.” Martin and his bandmates—Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, and Will Champion—had the concept for Dreams while working on their last album Ghost Stories. “About three or four years ago, when we decided to go down this road of making a really small, intimate album like Ghost Stories, the idea for A Head Full of Dreams came at the same time,” he says “We thought: ‘After making this restrained, intimate album, we won’t tour. Maybe we’ll feel like playing with a bit more jubilation.’ It was really fun to make, which is not what we’ve felt before.” While Ghost Stories was produced with the help of longtime producer Rik Simpson, Adele producer Paul Epworth and others, they sought out Katy Perry and Rihanna collaborators Stargate for this set. “I met them because I was trying to write songs for Rihanna—it’s my favorite hobby, even though she never really likes them,” Martin says with a laugh. “And we were supposed to do a song for Angelina Jolie’s movie Unbroken. Then I wondered if it would ever work bringing these two worlds together: Coldplay and these guys who make pop music.” That unlikely pairing has resulted in some of their most uplifting music in years. One highlight: the album opening title track, which Martin is particularly proud of. “It’s my favorite Coldplay song ever. It’s what I always dreamed of singing—now I’m allowed to do it.” While Martin says A Head Full Of Dreams as “a bit like a finale, or a final scene” for the band, he insists the group aren’t breaking up—nor does he have any ambitions to do a solo album. “If I ever do that, text me and say, Chris, you’ve officially lost it. That would just be awful. I need to be surrounded by people that can tell me to f— off. [Laughs]” x i'm sure there are quite a few people around here that would like to text chris saying "Chris, you’ve officially lost it!" :D

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">TOMORROW: The Man, The Myth, The Legend <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChrisMartin?src=hash">#ChrisMartin</a> drops by <a href="https://twitter.com/ElvisDuranShow">@elvisduranshow</a> to talk about <a href="https://twitter.com/coldplay">@coldplay</a>'s new music! <a href="https://t.co/gjCKvJpg0f">pic.twitter.com/gjCKvJpg0f</a></p>— Z100 New York (@Z100NewYork) <a href="https://twitter.com/Z100NewYork/status/668889523762257920">November 23, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> x x

are you guys for real? there were backup dancers in a coldplay track??