Coldplay have announced that they are set to release their 10th studio album later this year, which will be titled ‘Moon Music’. The album was produced alongside Max Martin, who was behind their last record, 2021’s ‘Music of the Spheres’, and will be released on October 4th via Atlantic records. This comes shortly after the record-breaking band released a snippet of their upcoming single ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’, which is set to be released on the 21st of June. Presave the single here.
The Band initially teased their upcoming single with a video of singer, Chris Martin, on Instagram on the 7th June before officially announcing the release of ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’ six days later. Coldplay played the new single live for the first time in Budapest, Hungary last night on their European tour.
The band announced its release on their Instagram and have said that the vinyl copies of the album will be made of 100% recycled plastic bottles. According to Coldplay it will be the first album in the world to be released as a 140g EcoRecord LP and each copy will be made from nine recycled PET-plastic bottles recovered from post-consumer waste. This will apparently provide an 85% reduction in the CO2 production of the manufacturing process compared to standard 140g vinyl.
They have also collaborated with The Ocean Cleanup to produce an additional format for the album called the Notebook Edition EcoRecord LP. The rPET for this is made up of 70% river plastic which has been intercepted by The Ocean Cleanup from the Rio Las Vacas, Guatemala, and prevented from reaching the Gulf of Honduras and the Atlantic Ocean.
The CD edition of ‘Moon Music’ will also be the world’s first to be released on EcoCD which is made up of 90% recycled polycarbonate. This is set to provide at least a 78% reduction in CO2 emissions per KG and enable the manufacturer to avoid using more than five metric tonnes of Virgin plastic.
The first edition of Moon Music is only going to be limited in order to reduce waste and will be produced at a higher specification than any other future editions. Fans can pre-order the upcoming album now from the band’s website.
This coincides with Coldplay’s commitment to being sustainable with the band taking measures on their current European arena tour where they have so far produced 59% less CO2e emissions than their previous stadium tour.
This could potentially be the last time we see the four piece release an album with Chris Martin stating in an interview with Jo Wiley in 2021 that the band will stop releasing records in 2025.
“Well I know I can tell you: our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour, maybe we’ll do some collaborative things but the Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then.”
The band are currently on an arena tour throughout Europe currently playing dates in Budapest before 3 shows in Lyon and then they are set to headline Glastonbury at the end of the month for the fifth time, being the first act to ever do so.
