Take a Listen to the First Tracks From Coldplay’s New Album

Jonny Buckland and Chris Martin Coldplay in concert at Rogers Theater in Toronto, Canada in 2017.
Jonny Buckland and Chris Martin Coldplay in concert at Rogers Theater in Toronto, Canada in 2017. Photo by Brian Patterson/REX/Shutterstock (9011834bq)

Coldplay is offering us not one, but two, hymns for the weekend. 

The British rock group announced earlier this week that they would be releasing their eighth studio album — the first since 2015’s A Head Full of Dreams.

The reveal came in the form of a letter to the band’s fans, with the tracks subsequently released in local newspapers around the world.

With Everyday Life only due for release towards the end of next month, Coldplay has gifted fans two fresh new singles from the album that is set to be double-sided. 

The songs are entitled “Orphans” and “Arabesque,” with lead singer, Chris Martin telling Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1,“Some of it’s very personal, about real things in my life, and some of it’s about things that I see or we see, and some of it’s about trying to empathise about what other people are going through.”

Everyday Life will feature one half called Sunrise, with the other entitled Sunset.

“Every day is great and every day is terrible… It just feels kind of free. There’s so much life bursting out on the planet,” Martin said. 

The new album is out November 22nd