Just a few weeks ago, Coldplay singer Chris Martin confirmed once again that his band would soon be withdrawing from the album business.
“We’re only going to make twelve proper albums, I’m serious about that. Yes, I promise,” Martin told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe about the release of “Moon Music.” “Because less is more, and for some of our critics even less would be more!”
What one should really believe when the musician says something about Coldplay’s future has been open for some time. In the past he also predicted an early end for his group several times. Bassist Guy Berryman therefore added in one Interview with the US edition of ROLLING STONE that the last record could perhaps come in five parts. Just British humor.
Interview with Chris Martin
ROLLING STONE also spoke to Chris Martin. In the detailed conversation, the 47-year-old is very personal, talks about his childhood and names his best friends (including, surprisingly, Dakota Johnson, with whom he last had a relationship but may no longer have a relationship).
Without being asked, Martin also mentioned something about new music from Coldplay. In fact, he’s talking about songs that already exist but haven’t been released yet.
“One day we’re going to do something called ‘Alphabetica,’ and it’s going to be a lot of outtakes and songs that didn’t fit anywhere, but we’re going to put them on a compilation,” he said. “We’ll have a song that starts with A and one that starts with B, because there’s plenty of that – but we don’t have any tracks left with Q. We still have to find a solution for this.”
Coldplay and their strong archive
It remains to be seen whether this statement is again a joke. The fact is that Coldplay have an extraordinarily diverse arsenal of B-sides and rarities that was extremely strong in the early years of their career. A compendium that brings together all the archive gems could at least bring fans of the first hour and later listeners closer together.