Coldplay surprised their fans this Monday with the announcement of their tenth studio album, Moon Music, and a new song. The band continues to focus on its commitment to the environment and its physical CD version will be the “first in the world” to be released as an “ecoCD.” For Argentines, the premiere of the album will also represent a new connection because the cover photo and the packaging design will be made by two local artists.
According to Coldplay’s statement, production strove to make Moon Music “as sustainable as possible” and it is the first time in history that a band has undertaken a project of this nature. The physical CDs will be made from 90% recycled polycarbonate, obtained from post-consumer recycled PET plastic bottles. Each 140-gram piece will be the result of approximately nine recovered bottles and its first edition will be available in limited and individually numbered quantities.
Photo: Chris Martin and Tini at the River Plate Stadium. DF Entertainment.
In the last few hours, Coldplay also revealed in their stories the album cover: a blue sky with a rainbow and a crescent in the center that is the work of Argentine photographer Matias Alonso Revelli. The artist lives in Bahía Blanca and has an Instagram account where he shares his photos of the sky and nature in general.
On his networks, Alonso Revelli said that the image was taken in the patio of his house during the pandemic, one day when his father told him to go out and see the sky. There was a very particular rainbow, he took several photos of her, edited them and uploaded them to his social networks. Coldplay then contacted him to use his image on the cover of their next album. For the packaging design, the group also chose an Argentine artist, Pilar Zeta.
The choice of two Argentinians is no coincidence for the band: whenever they come to our country, Chris Martin is responsible for highlighting that we are “the best audience in the world” and they sell out the tickets for each date they plan to play. In 2018, in addition, the group chose the shows in the Unique State of La Plata and in Sao Paulo to record the DVD of their tour. A Sky Full Of Stars.
The premiere of Moon Music, in its physical and digital format, will be on October 4 of this year, but starting this Friday, June 21, you can hear its first song titled feelslikeimfallinginlove. The song was premiered live in a show they recently gave at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest and in recent days the group also shared a brief fragment and its cover on their networks.
Moon Music will be the band’s tenth album, will feature production by Max Martin and will represent a second part of the album released in 2021 Music Of The Spheres. The world tour to present this latest album began in March 2022 in Costa Rica, passed through Argentina that same year with sold-out shows at the River Plate Stadium and will end in November of this year in New Zealand.
