Coldplay’s Chris Martin Says Band May Not Tour for ‘Mylo Xyloto’

Story by Cat Badra

Story by Cat Badra
Coldplay singer and lyricist doesn’t know if band will tour to support latest album
Chris Martin-led, Brit-pop band Coldplay release their latest assortment of songs, Mylo Xyloto, on Tuesday (Oct. 25), and the LP is Coldplay’s most electronic and eclectic yet. Mylo Xyloto , the follow-up to 2008’s Viva la Vida, spans 14 tracks, brimming with vocal chants, soaring guitars and pleasing pop melodies in true Coldplay tradition. Add to that a track featuring Rhianna, and you have a recipe for an efficacious, buzz-worthy release.
But, if you ask Martin, he has no sky-high expectations for Mylo Xyloto’s commercial success. He doesn’t even know if Coldplay are going to do a proper tour to support the issue. “It’s a question of whether there’s any demand,” Martin told USA Today. “I just don’t think you can take those things for granted — unless you’re the Stones, or Bruce.”
“If the album is a bomb,” he added, “then we’ll probably have to open a cake shop or something. We’ll wait and see.” Something tells us Coldplay’s latest won’t be a “bomb,” and Martin won’t be running a bakery any time soon. But, Martin does have a good sense of humor.
Martin and his rockmates Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion put everything they had into Mylo, churning out a concept album of sorts revolving around “a love story in a big, dark, scary city.” Debut single “Paradise” currently sits No. 9 on the BDS Alternative Radio chart. The concept, Martin says, was spawned by his reading about “about New York street writers in the ’70s.”
“… [I] became interested in the idea of how the voices of the voiceless get heard,” he added. “So you have a boy and a girl and a group of like-minded people in a sort of George Orwell-type or Kafkaesque world. But it’s hopeful, because it’s about people trying to transcend troubles.”
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