Pitchfork: Coldplay Announce Details of New Album

When he's not busy fathering Apple and providing for Gwyneth, Chris Martin fronts Coldplay, a band with which you may be familiar. We reported a few weeks ago that the quartet announced some details of their third album, and now we're back with more.

Coldplay's official site has announced that the album, called X&Y;, will be released on June 6 in the UK and June 7 in North America. A couple of weeks earlier, on May 23, "Speed of Sound" will be released as the first single. The band have already mentioned that one of their influences for this album is Kraftwerk, and that can be heard in the song "Talk", which borrows the melody to "Computer Love" and everything else from U2. The album was produced by Danton Supple and Ken Nelson, as well as by the members of Coldplay themselves. Charts and graphs:

01 Square One
02 What If
03 White Shadows
04 Fix You
05 Talk
06 X&Y;
07 Speed of Sound
08 A Message
09 Low
10 The Hardest Part
11 Swallowed in the Sea
12 Twisted Logic