Chris Martin reveals Coldplay will stop making albums very soon

Chris Martin has immoderate atrocious quality for Coldplay fans: The set has plans to halt releasing albums.

Martin, 47, made the revelation during an interrogation with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, 51, a information of which archetypal dropped Monday connected People.

Coldplay, which is made up of Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champion, Phil Harvey and Martin, volition merchandise their tenth album, Moon Music, connected October 4.

“We are lone going to bash 12 due albums, and that’s real,” Martin told Lowe, who didn’t similar the idea, saying helium wants Coldplay to enactment retired “50 albums.”

“You don’t, due to the fact that little is more,” the Fix You vocalist pushed back. “And for immoderate of our critics, adjacent little would beryllium adjacent more.”

“It’s truly important that we person that limit,” helium added.

He pointed to the Harry Potter books (of which determination are lone 7) and the philharmonic output of artists helium admires.

“There’s lone 12 and a fractional Beatles albums. There’s astir the aforesaid Bob Marley, truthful each of our heroes,” helium said. “And besides having that bounds means that the prime power is truthful precocious close now, and for a opus to marque it, it’s astir impossible, which is great.”

Marin explained that the set is focused connected “trying to improve” alternatively than “coasting.” And though Coldplay mightiness not beryllium churning retired caller euphony aft their twelfth album, that doesn’t mean Martin volition halt creating caller tunes.

“That volition ever proceed successful immoderate way, but there’s thing astir the Coldplay thing,” helium shared. “I don’t cognize wherever the songs travel from. I don’t cognize wherever the ideas travel from, but that’s conscionable been coming to maine for astir 4 oregon 5 years now. Like, ‘You person to decorativeness similar this,’ and I spot that conscionable similar I spot the songs.”

Speaking to what mightiness travel aft medium No. 12, helium said, “So if we bash thing unneurotic aft that creatively beyond touring, past it’ll beryllium thing different, oregon it’ll beryllium a broadside thing, oregon it’ll beryllium a compilation of things we hadn’t finished.”

Beyond the prime power concerns of making a “great” album, Martin pointed retired the logistic problems that contiguous themselves arsenic clip passes.

“It’s specified a batch of wrangling of people,” helium explained, “And I privation to springiness the others immoderate of their beingness for themselves.”

“I don’t privation to be, erstwhile we’re 60, beryllium like, ‘Will, we request you. Come on! We tin bash amended than this!’”

Despite the band’s self-stamped expiration date, Martin said Coldplay has much joyousness “than ever.”

The reasons? “Because of getting older, due to the fact that of Covid, due to the fact that of everything going connected successful the world, due to the fact that of however fortunate we cognize we are, due to the fact that of the places we get to go, due to the fact that of the optimism that it gives america to spot each antithetic kinds of radical gathering together, due to the fact that of songs that get from nowhere, due to the fact that we spell astatine a slower pace.”

He added, “All these things mean that we emotion it.”

This communicative primitively appeared connected New York Post and was reproduced with permission