Coldplay Announce "Final" LP A Head Full of Dreams

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Today, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin sat down for an interview with BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe to celebrate the band's Ghost Stories track "Magic" being named the "hottest record of the year". After accepting the honors, Martin offered some exciting news: less than a year after releasing Ghost Stories in May, the band are back in the studio working on their seventh album, tentatively titled A Head Full of Dreams. What's more, Martin is framing it as the final installment in the Coldplay discography, at least for the time being.

Speaking with Lowe (and subsequently reported by Consequence of Sound), Martin compared the forthcoming album to the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

It's our seventh thing, and the way we look at it, it's like the last Harry Potter book or something like that. Not to say that there might not be another thing one day, but this is the completion of something.

He added, "I have to think of it as the final thing we're doing. Otherwise we wouldn't put everything into it." He also announced that the band would be going on tour after the new album's release.

Listen to the full interview below. Details regarding the new album surface around the 3:15 mark.

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