More gritty album from Coldplay

MANILA, Philippines - Coldplay’s fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto (pronounced my-lo zy-letoe), was recently released by Capitol Records through Polyeast Records. The album features production work by Markus Dravs (Arcade Fire, Bjork), Daniel Green and Rik Simpson (Jay-Z, Portishead), “enoxification” and additional composition by Brian Eno (U2, David Bowie). Mylo Xyloto follows 2008’s Viva La Vida, which charted at No. 1 in 36 countries, including the US and the UK.

Mylo Xyloto now released in digital4 is now available in stores nationwide. Half of the CDs will be packaged with the full-color artwork as the cover while the other 50 percent will have the CD booklet flipped, showing the silver initials “M X” via a die-cut sheet placed over the color image. 

Paradise is the follow-up to Coldplay’s current single, Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall. Both singles are heating up radio airwaves and the video for Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall is also being played on MYX.

“[The new songs] suggest Coldplay’s forthcoming album may be more gritty, fun, strange and (yes) danceable than any so far,” observed Rolling Stone. Just as the album art was inspired by the work of New York graffiti artists of the ’70s, Mylo Xyloto takes its cue from the sense of freedom those artists embodied.

Songs like the frenetic Hurts Like Heaven and Major Minus — described by Billboard as “an ominous, thundering beast of a song with rattling guitars, potent (and rare) Buckland solos, and restless, shifting musical patterns” — contrast sharply with the delicate Us Against The World, the shimmering summer single Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall and Charlie Brown, with its transcendent message of hope for the outsider in all of us.