Last Friday, Coldplay‘s Chris Martin and Will Champion sat down with BBC Radio 1‘s Zane Lowe to discuss the band’s upcoming fifth record, due out later this year. Martin described the record as being about “love, addiction, OCD, escape and working for someone you don’t like. “He added that it was a “thinly veiled account of what happens within the group.” Martin also downplayed previous reports that the new album is a “concept record.”
Martin added that the new songs are “supposed to be about life, the good stuff and the bad stuff. Everything.”
Drummer Champion told Lowe, “There’s a phrase which my wife told me from a book, I can’t remember which book, but a man is asked, ‘Are you married?’ And he says, ‘Yes, of course I’m married. I have a wife, kids, the whole catastrophe. Catastrophe just means something big and seismic but not necessarily bad. It’s all about embracing the whole thing. Appreciating the good and bad and realizing it’s all part of life.”
The as-yet-untitled Coldplay record is being produced by Brian Eno and Markus Dravs, who were behind the boards for 2008′s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. [Source]
