On 4 December 2014, Martin announced in an interview with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 that Coldplay were in the middle of working on their seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams . Martin remarked it might be the band’s final album and compared it to Harry Potter : “It’s our seventh thing, and the way we look at it, it’s like the last Harry Potter book or something like that”. He added that unlike their promotion efforts for Ghost Stories , the band would tour for the seventh record. In an interview with Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2, Martin hinted at the style of the album by saying that the band were trying to make something colourful and uplifting yet not bombastic. He also stated that it would be something to “shuffle your feet” to.
Announced work on seventh album
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