The result is a record where groovesome programmed beats jostle with grand swells of church organ (‘Lost!’), where the space between verse and chorus is filled with deliciously propulsive stabs of North African-styled strings and tablas (‘Yes’), where breezy Flamenco handclaps drive a tale of gloom and despair (‘Cemeteries Of London’), or where four-to-the-floor rhythms meld with weeping strings for an ode to lost glories (‘Viva La Vida’). “We were much more open to new ideas and influences and much less afraid to experiment.” “It can be easy to stop yourself from trying things because you’re scared of what people might say,” adds Martin, “but we forced ourselves not to do that.” “I think it’s our boldest and most confident record,” says bassist Guy Berryman. However you might describe it, there’s no mistaking the artistic leap which ‘Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends’ represents for the four friends collectively known as Coldplay. “Or, if you like, we decided to let our garden grow a little more unkempt.
“This album was fueled by a desire to move from black and white into colour,” says Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. In Coldplay's version someone's also scrawled a Ricky Martin lyric in white paint.Coldplay – ‘Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends’ His 1830 masterpiece Liberty Leading The People depicts dead bodies, soldiers, and Liberty waving the French tricolour. In further Coldplay news, the album art has also been announced! Although Viva La Vida is ostensibly named after a Frida Kahlo painting, Chris Martin and the band have spurned Kahlo's modernism and instead found their cover by vandalising a Eugene Delacroix painting. Tickets for both gigs will be distributed through a contest on the band's website, with details to be announced.Ĭoldplay's new album, their fourth, is still due to be called Viva La Vida, but they've also appended a pondersome subtitle: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends is how the record will be listed when it arrives in shops on June 16. On June 16, they will fill London's Brixton Academy, while four nights later they repeat the gesture at Madison Square Garden in New York. In a further act of headline-stealing magnanimity, Coldplay have also announced two free gigs.
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