Coldplay have revealed the tracklist for his or her forthcoming tenth album MOON MUSiC (out October 4th), and it’s a mixture of bizarre capitalizations, emojis, and titles that might imply all the things or nothing in any respect.
Check out the tracklist under and also you’ll discover weird gems like “iAAM” (which is brief for “I Am a Mountain,” due to course it’s), “JUPiTER,” and “🌈.” There are additionally track titles that really feel utterly in step with Coldplay’s altruistic, neon-soaked second wave (which began with 2011’s Mylo Xyloto and continued by their platitude-heavy 2021 album Music of the Spheres), like “ONE WORLD,” “AETERNA,” and title observe “MOON MUSiC.”
The letter ‘i’ is noticeably in lowercase for every title, whereas each different letter is capitalized. Why, precisely? Maybe it’s a suggestion that we make ourselves smaller to be able to assist the bigger communities we discover ourselves in. Or it’s simply because it appears very fashionable, and Beyoncé simply did the double ‘i’ factor on Cowboy Carter (itself a commentary on the marginalization of Black People within the South, however nonetheless).
Whereas there’s a bit to glean from the tracklist, we nonetheless don’t fairly know what Moon Music — excuse me, MOON MUSiC — goes to sound like, past the indestructible sheen that you simply get with Max Martin behind the boards.
Just one single has been revealed thus far — “feelslikeimfallinginlove,” which they debuted throughout the ongoing European leg of their “Music of the Spheres Tour.” That track isn’t unhealthy, per se — digital producer Jon Hopkins, of all folks, co-wrote the observe. But it surely positively sounds lab designed to billow out of stadium audio system and dominate grocery retailer playlists for the following six-to-eight years (see: Coldplay and The Chainsmokers’ completely reprehensible collaboration “One thing Simply Like This”).
Coldplay are set to launch the album’s second single, “WE PRAY,” on Friday, August twenty third — that single options the stacked, multi-cultural forged of Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and TINI, and so they debuted it throughout their headlining Glastonbury set again in June.
The remainder of MOON MUSiC remains to be a thriller, however based mostly on the tracklist, it appears like one more train in fostering international unity, feeling your emotions, and the way love will conquer all. In any case, they did the emoji factor on the final album, and that turned out to be precisely what we anticipated.
Fortunately, if the tracklist is making you are feeling dismal concerning the state of the longer term — of music, of Coldplay, of tradition, of the world — the band is extending their dedication to sustainability with MOON MUSiC. Every bodily LP of the album is created from 100% recycled plastic bottles; in the meantime, they’ve planted 9 million bushes for his or her current “Music of the Spheres Tour” and decreased their general CO2 emissions by 59% from their final international trek in 2016/2017. We will knock Coldplay for a foolish tracklist, certain, however a minimum of they’re utilizing their platform to attempt to make the world a extra livable place.
MOON MUSiC Tracklist:
01. MOON MUSiC
02. feelslikeimfallinginlove
03. WE PRAY ft Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna & TINI
04. JUPiTER
05. GOOD FEELiNGS ft Ayra Starr
06. 🌈
07. iAAM
08. AETERNA
09. ALL MY LOVE
10. ONE WORLD
MOON MUSiC Paintings:
