Coldplay have returned to the studio to put the finishing touches on their new album, according to the blog Roadie #42.
“Back in the studio, the songs are now very much pushing their heads above the soil and straining towards the light,” was the message posted on the blog today.
The unspecified blogger continues that the new album, again recorded with Brian Eno, is now taking a much clearer shape after months of speculation surrounding the potential make-up of the new material.
“I suspect that the band has had a reasonable idea all along of how things will feel when they’re finished, in the same way that a sculptor sees the finished piece, but just needs to dig it out of the block,” says Roadie #42.
“There’s been much chiselling and smoothing and now things are really developing a recognisable form and an emotional resonance. There’s no better aural equivalent of the bursting growth of spring than the laying on of backing vocals.”
The new album will be Coldplay’s first since 2008’s ‘Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends‘.