Prospekt's March EP (from 19th November 2008)
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Producer: Brian Eno, Marcus Dravs
Label: Parlophone
Publisher: EMI
Release dates:
19th November - Japan, Sweden (digitally on 21st)
21st November - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Norway, South Africa
22nd November - Australia
24th November - UK, rest of the world
25th November - USA, Canada, Spain
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Two Coldplay radio interviews aired on Saturday 30th August 2008 the UK, the first one on BBC Radio 2 with Dermot O'Leary and the second on BBC6 Music. During the second one Chris Martin confirmed details of future Coldplay releases to a well respected Steve Lamacq. An EP entitled Prospekt's March will be released on 26th December 2008 and the band will then wrap up the decade with a full length release in December 2009.
We reported on 1st August 2008 at Coldplaying.com that the band had finished working on some songs that will be released in EP format sometime in March next year, so it appears that this EP has been brought forward by three months. It also appears that the news we reported back on June 2nd about a new album release in 2009 is correct.
Coldplay's new releases can be attributed to an overflow of material the band created with producer Brian Eno while recording Viva La Vida. "The Viva La Vida sessions were incredibly fruitful. They gelled brilliantly with Brian and recorded much more music than they could fit on one album," a spokesman for the band's EMI record label said.
Background
On 30th August 2008, two of the biggest bands in the world went head to head on BBC 6music as Coldplay chatted to REM's Michael Stipe [pictured] live in the studio with Steve Lamacq.
Following reports that Coldplay planned to release a record this year it fell on Stipe to get to the bottom of the rumours: “Is it true?” he asked. To which Martin replied: “We’re going to put an EP out at Christmas called Prospekt's March and we’re going to release an album next December to end the decade.”
Martin then turned to Will Champion and asked: “Is it [the EP] called Prospekt's March or Prospekt's Song?” Before adding: “Lets ask Michael Stipe!”
Stipe preferred Prospekt's March and the band agreed. This EP will come only months after Coldplay's 4th studio album Viva La Vida which was released in June this year. But as previously reported, the band recorded so much material during the writing of Viva La Vida they had more than enough for one album.
Steve Lamacq talks about Prospekt's March
Steve Lamacq caught up with recent Coldplay events on 30th August 2008 and wrote about them in his online blog. Here goes:
So what we suspected - but weren't at liberty to confirm - turns out to be true. There will be another Coldplay album next year, currently set for release in December '09. Chris Martin broke the news during a convivial chat with REM's Michael Stipe and yours truly on BBC 6 Music on Saturday afternoon. What's more surprising is that there will be a new EP, Prospekt's March, released around Christmas... ("hopefully December 26th, something like that").
All of which seems to confirm earlier suspicions that the sessions with Brian Eno for the current album Viva La Vida were so productive that they had songs to spare - although the band still claim the next album is far from finished. In the meantime, we got to hear a laid-back Coldplay democratically choosing the title for the EP, live on air, with the added bonus of Stipe having the casting vote.
Rumours
On September 7th 2008, Coldplaying messageboarder Navegador posted an online review of Coldplay's forthcoming EP entitled Prospekt's March, which later turned out to be fake. At the time, no official confirmation that the following tracklisting was correct (according to Prospekt only the previous week they didn't even know what was going to be on the EP).
The fake track synopses can be seen here.
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