Coldplay have shared a euphoric new single from their forthcoming album. Check out ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’ below.
Shared today (June 21), the track marks the first teaser of new music from the band since they announced details of their latest studio album ‘Moon Music’ earlier this week. Now, after teasing the lead single, sharing a snippet with fans online and previewing the track while on stage in Hungary, Chris Martin and co. have finally dropped the song.
From the start, the track incorporates a subtle element of electronica and gradually develops a steady beat before introducing the frontman’s emotive vocals. “I know that this could hurt me bad/ I know that this could feel like that/ But I just can’t stop/ Let my defences drop,” he sings in the opening lines, with the electronic feeling like a nod to ‘Ghost Stories’.
From there, the Max Martin-produced track steadily gains momentum, before erupting into the powerful chorus: “It feels like I’m falling in love / Maybe for the first time / Baby, it’s in my mind / You blow / It feels like I’m falling in love / You’re throwing me a lifeline / This is for a lifetime / I know.”
Check it out below.
Coldplay’s 10th studio album, ‘Moon Music’ was announced earlier this week, and will be released on October 4. You can pre-order the album here.
As with the single, the album has been produced by Max Martin (Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Katy Perry), and will be available in a limited number of hand-signed editions. It will also be shared on eco-friendly physical formats too, including a vinyl made from recycled plastic bottles and a CD created from 90 per cent recycled polycarbonate.
There will also be a limited ‘Notebook Edition’ of the record, which comes as a casebound hardback book – a faithful replica of frontman Chris Martin’s original studio notebook. It will contain 28 pages of notes, lyrics and illustrations from the album’s creative process.
It remains uncertain whether this album will be the last from Coldplay, as the band have previously hinted they would stop releasing albums in the year 2025. The rumour first emerged back in 2021, when the members told Jo Whiley that they were coming to the end of their time writing new material.
Martin then shared a similar sentiment with NME in that same year, when he discussed how “intense” it can be to keep releasing new material.
“We’re going to make 12 albums. Because it’s a lot to pour everything into making them. I love it and it’s amazing, but it’s very intense too,” he said. “I feel like because I know that challenge is finite, making this music doesn’t feel difficult, it feels like, ‘This is what we’re supposed to be doing’.”
Next weekend the band will headline Glastonbury Festival, and become the first act ever to top the Pyramid Stage bill five times, after their slots in 2002, 2005, 2011 and 2016.
The stop will come as part of their extensive ‘Music Of The Spheres’ tour, which was recently revealed to be one of the most sustainable live music shows of all time. Recently, they said the tour had generated 59 per cent less CO2 emissions than their previous stadium tour in 2016 and 2017 – beating their own target of 50 per cent – and led to 7million trees being planted.
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