The new album reunites Chris and the rest with super-producer Max Martin, the very acme of unsentimental industrial-pop earwormery. But fret not, dear reader: Chris is the main Martin here, the presiding genius in whose feelgood mould the songs are cast.

Chris Martin has a plan. Moon Music is the 10th of an envisioned 12 albums from Coldplay (one of which will be an animated musical), which he suggested in a recent interview will make sense of their artistic journey from fragile indie hopefuls to the most popular British band of the 21st Century that has sold out stadiums across the world.