Joy. Despite promising to take a few years off, Coldplay have revealed to NME that they already have an album worth of fresh material ready to go, having been working on new tracks whilst on their 'Twisted Logic' tour. The band's Will Champion explained that his group are keen to set themselves up with their own studio, instead of recording in various locations around the world as they did whilst working on 'X&Y'.
Champion says: "We're trying to find somewhere where we can set up and work. In all these years we haven't got a HQ, our own studio or anything like that. We want somewhere where we can sort of hole up and see what happens."
Bassist Guy Berryman, speaking more specifically about the next album, and the direction it might take, commented: "I don't want to generalise it and say 'We're going to become electronic' because I don't think we are going to become truly electronic. I think there's going to be elements of lots of things. It's hard to say, all the ideas are just spinning around inside my head and I've got a lot of new toys to play with. I always like our next record to be a bit harder sounding. Not rock harder just edgier. We'll always have melody."
On the recording process, Champion added: "In the same way that we had loads of songs ready when we went in to do the last record and the record before, we're at that stage now where we've got songs. I think they will need a lot of work, we need to learn how to play them. We've learnt from mistakes on the last record in terms of the idea that it's most important for us to play the songs together and to have them as live as possible."