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.

Veteran rockers Coldplay have teamed with Abramorama to mount what they have described as a "global theatrical premiere event" tied to their upcoming album Moon Music. On October 2nd, the band will launch Moon Music through a series of "communal listening experience" events hosted in select theaters around the globe.