It’s official: the followup to 2009’s Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends will be a concept album.  After ten years on the scene Coldplay is finally ready for some intense experimentation.  And they’ve got Viva producers Brian Eno and Marcus Dravs coming back for support.  Says frontman Chris Martin: “It’s from the point of view of two people who are a bit lost. Two like-minded outsiders who meet in a very difficult environment and therefore have a journey together. It’s a concept album but it’s supposed to be very personal within a big framework. Does that make sense?”  Martin on the “tag-team” that is Eno and Dravs: “Brian is the sower of seeds and ideas and experimenting, which is very liberating. Then Marcus’s job is to come in after all that’s been done and try and sculpt it into some kind of releasable format.”  How much longer do we have to wait for the concept to drop?  “We spent a year making a lot of noise”, says Martin. “You know those things in a fairground where you have bran in a tub and in there are some hidden prizes? That’s sort of where we are at.”  Sound like we’ve got a while before the product is complete.  At least we have “Christmas Lights” to play over and over until then.

[Via BBC]