Coldplay + Brian Eno = Something awesome

[Lancemc]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/Brian_Eno_Producing_New_Coldplay_Album#40742


So it looks like Brian Eno is producing the next Coldplay album. All I can say is thank God. This band needs something like this right now. I was fairly disappointed wtih X&Y, and we all know Eno's just the right man for rejuvinating an artist's career and creativity. I'm sure he'll bring something fresh and needed to the band. Can't wait.

 

[Salome]

i wonder whether he can slap the whiny-ness out of them

 

[LMP]

"Hey Mr. Emo, can you do what you did for U2 LZOL!"

*chrismartinface*

but really, that's great news.

I loved the direction they were going in with b-sides Sleeping Sun and Gravity, if that meshes with Parachutes' songwriting and A Rush of Blood's sound/production, I might retract my ban on Coldplay.

 

[LemonMelon]

i wonder whether he can slap the whiny-ness out of them

I hope so. Eno would never allow a Fix Ewe to pass through his personal quality filter.

 

[xaviMF22]

YES !!!


Great fucking news

I love to know what coldplay do after the atrocity that was X&Y

I'm exited


and yes they can make a great record

a rush of blood is

 

[xaviMF22]

I'd love to go to the coldplay forums and discuss this....but I got banned

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

This sounds like good news to me. I'm probably one of the only people who didn't mind X&Y... But Parachutes and Rush of Blood were better.

Where's Chris Martin anyhow?

 

[Lancemc]

I'd love to go to the coldplay forums and discuss this....but I got banned

Oh well. I'm sure this will be a great record. Eno doesn't produce garbage. He won't allow it.

 

[xaviMF22]

I am by far more exited for LP4 than I am for LP7

 

[namkcuR]

Oh well. I'm sure this will be a great record. Eno doesn't produce garbage. He won't allow it.

A little off topic...am I remembering correctly that you said you were going to a RHCP show last night?

 

[namkcuR]

I am by far more exited for LP4 than I am for LP7

If LP4 is of Parachutes/ROBTTH quality, it would be an interesting comparison...if LP4 is within 100000 miles of X&Y quality, LP7 wins by a landslide. RH is already better by a solid margin.

 

[Lancemc]

A little off topic...am I remembering correctly that you said you were going to a RHCP show last night?

You are correct sir.

 

[Laura M]

Interesting. I'm not overly fussed on Coldplay.

 

[Axver]

Does this mean Coldplay's fourth album will be called The Forgettable Fire?

 

[LemonMelon]

Does this mean Coldplay's fourth album will be called The Forgettable Fire?

That was X&Y.

 

[XHendrix24]

This is awesome news.

Like, really awesome.

I didn't even bother listening to X&Y after hearing Fix You and Speed of Sound, but their first two albums are really good, great even.

I will be looking forward to this.

 

[MarkeMan]

Had no idea X&Y was so maligned, I don't mind it, actually think parts of it are rather good even.

Eno will likely do good with them, but I just hope he doesn't take their desire to be U2 a bit too far and turn them into a clone.

 

[LemonMelon]

My Humps =/= Fix You

 

[Aygo]

Oh God!

As much as I respect and love Eno's work, I can't see a great premonition about this news...

I can imagine Chris' ego go even further than in the X&Y sessions, and the band emulating again (and even harder) U2's sound.

I really hope that not to happen. I was hoping for a totally different next album. But now, I'm not betting on that.

 

[Canadiens1131]

FUCK YES! Slightly drunk Mike says Coldplay+Eno is much better than Coldplay alone! GibsonGirl please feel free to scorn me when I'm sober!

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

this combination should equal a awesome album!


*crosses fingers*

 

[AtomicBono]

hopefully eno can desuckify them

it is a bit scary how they're following U2 step for step but, if it produces an album of quality like A Rush then I'm all for it

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

hopefully eno can desuckify them

it is a bit scary how they're following U2 step for step but, if it produces an album of quality like A Rush then I'm all for it

same here.. If it is in the league of A Rush.. we are in for one hell of a album...and tour..

 

[xaviMF22]

if its anything like a rush of blood I will

 

[ShellBeThere]

Oh God!

As much as I respect and love Eno's work, I can't see a great premonition about this news...

I can imagine Chris' ego go even further than in the X&Y sessions, and the band emulating again (and even harder) U2's sound.

I really hope that not to happen. I was hoping for a totally different next album. But now, I'm not betting on that.

That's a good point, about the emulating U2's sound issue...hmm...or maybe Eno will be extra-sensitive to that? I don't know enough about Coldplay to know if they have anything going for them *but* trying to emulate U2 lol...

cheers all!

 

[Zoomerang96]

I am by far more exited for LP4 than I am for LP7

you're a travesty to deathbear avatar holders everywhere.

 

[xaviMF22]

you're a travesty to deathbear avatar holders everywhere.

I like coldplay

 

[BoMac]

That's a good point, about the emulating U2's sound issue...hmm...or maybe Eno will be extra-sensitive to that? I don't know enough about Coldplay to know if they have anything going for them *but* trying to emulate U2 lol...

cheers all!

Well, this will be Coldplay's fourth album and Eno first co-produced U2's fourth as well. So that's a similarity right there.

 

[xaviMF22]

now all they need to do is get Daniel Lanois on board and we're all set

 

[Aygo]

That's a good point, about the emulating U2's sound issue...hmm...or maybe Eno will be extra-sensitive to that? I don't know enough about Coldplay to know if they have anything going for them *but* trying to emulate U2 lol...

cheers all!

Well, Eno's work is not all the same, he's done tones of different things.
But take U2's example. In a great percentage of U2's music there is "Eno ADN" (I don't know if you understand what I'm to say with this).
If Coldplay (Chris "Sissy" Martin) wanted to be bigger than U2 circa X&Y-sessions/releasement, it's not a big surprise to me thay they choose Eno to work with.

By the TUF era, U2 was still an relatively unknown in some countries, and Brian Eno was a much younger producer and had not made half the work he made 'till today.
Why didn't Coldplay choose a yonger (fresher?) guy to go in the studio with them? Someone who really brought something different and that throw away a little the Coldplay typical sound...