Moon Music by Coldplay
Moon Music (full title Music of the Spheres Vol. II: Moon Music) is the upcoming tenth studio album by British rock band Coldplay. It is set for release on 4 October 2024 by Parlophone in the United Kingdom and Atlantic Records in the United States, being the sequel to From Earth with Love (2021) on their Music of the Spheres project. Both albums are concurrently being supported through the Music of the Spheres World Tour. Guest appearances include Burna Boy, Little Simz, Elyanna, Tini and Ayra Starr. Background On 17 June 2024, Coldplay announced through their social media that Moon Music would be released on 4 October. On 16 August 2024, the band revealed its track listing. El Mundo, Los Angeles Times, Vulture, and To Vima ranked the album among the most anticipated of the year. Recording The album was partially recorded at the Punta Paloma studio in Tarifa, Spain. Coldplay spent two weeks at the office – between July and August 2024 – and used it as a "base of operations" while playing their shows in Rome, Düsseldorf and Helsinki. Artwork and package The album cover features a moonbow shot, taken by Argentine photographer Matías Alonso Revelli in 2020. Coldplay contacted him directly to use the picture, and while he offered numerous other versions, the band ultimately maintained their initial choice. The rest of the package was created by long-time collaborator Pilar Zeta. CD editions of Moon Music will be the first to be released on EcoCD, created from 90% recycled polycarbonate and sourced from post-consumer waste streams.
Chris Martin felt that <i>A Head Full of Dreams</i> marked the end of something for Coldplay. In his mind, the band’s lead singer compared it to the seven colours of the colour spectrum—on their seventh record, they were completing a journey. It made for a dazzling and joyous album, something that felt like a culmination over everything the four-piece had explored over the previous 15-plus years. There were no concerns about what was cool and what wasn’t anymore. Coldplay were way beyond that, more interested in celebrating that they were a band who loved pop music as much as they loved rock ’n’ roll, so why not combine it all? To that end, <i>A Head Full of Dreams</i> features appearances from Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Brian Eno, Tove Lo and Merry Clayton with some guests that went beyond the realm of musical peers. There’s the political—Barack Obama pops up on two tracks for spoken-word excerpts—and the personal in a Coldplay Jr choir made up of all their children, plus Martin’s ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow singing a line referring to their break-up on the tender ballad “Everglow”. Beginning work on the album directly after the completion of <i>Ghost Stories</i>’ low-key introspection, <i>A Head Full of Dreams</i> was designed to be that record’s opposite, a return to big holler-along choruses and monumental, hug-your-mate hooks. Teaming up with megahit specialists and Grammy-winning production duo Stargate, they dived deeper into the pop world than they ever had before. From the spiralling riff that conducts the pulsing dance-pop of “Adventure of a Lifetime” to the euphoric “whoa-oh-oh”s of the title track, this was Coldplay at their most unashamedly positive and uplifting. On the irresistible R&B grooves of “Hymn for the Weekend”, Martin and Beyoncé joined forces for one of the group’s most rousing and rhapsodic choruses. The idea behind <i>A Head Full of Dreams</i> was that if you focus on something hard enough and want it to happen, you can will it into existence. Here, all of Coldplay’s dreams came true. Their first spectrum ended with the biggest of bangs.
