The bassist doesn’t quite want to believe the final spurt announced by Chris Martin.
Guy Berryman has commented on Chris Martin’s announced album stop after twelve records. “We’re still years away from some sort of retirement,” the bassist questioned the Coldplay frontman’s recent statements.
“I take this with caution”
For fans of the British pop stars, that was a big deal: Chris Martin actually announced the end of Coldplay at the end of September. Well, not really – they just want to stop songwriting. With LP number 11 the group wants to release another musical. After the twelfth album there should be an end to new songs. Then “the main story is told,” the singer told NME.
Parts of the band have obviously taken note of the plan – but at least Guy Berryman doesn’t seem to be completely convinced of it yet. “Chris will never stop writing, so I take it with a grain of salt,” he said in a new interview with Rolling Stone. He continued: “We are still years away from any kind of retirement. But I think you have to have a plan. When you run a marathon, you know you have to run 26 miles. But when someone tells you, ‘OK, start running and don’t stop,’ it’s pretty hard to motivate yourself.”
Looking for the “picture frame”
So with the release of MOON MUSIC in October this year, a lot of the track seems to have officially been jogged. But Chris Martin also confirmed to “Rolling Stone” that this doesn’t mean a hard cut – there will definitely be new music for some time. Over the decades, many Coldplay tracks have accumulated that previously did not fit into a “picture frame”. They want to pay “homage” to these titles.
26 letters = 26 unreleased songs?
“One day we’re going to do a thing called ‘Alphabetica,’ which will consist of a lot of outtakes and songs that didn’t fit anywhere, but we’ll put them out in a compendium. We’re going to do a song that starts with A and one that starts with B because there’s enough for that – what we’re missing is Q. That’s the one I’m sticking with,” he joked.
He also gave some details about what was supposed to be the very last record – it was said to have a connection to the first EP SAFETY. “I’ve known the cover of the album since 1999. It’s a photo by the same photographer who took the cover of our first EP.” The final work should be a kind of “homecoming” to the original Coldplay sound. Purists should be happy about this.