Coldplay have revealed that their fifth studio album will be released in December 2009 to roof off an incredible decennary for the four-piece.
The band's frontman Chris Martin made the revelations in a very special interview with R.E.M's Michael Stipe on BBC6music over the weekend.
Asked by Stipe if it was true that new material was on the horizon, Martin responded: �We�re going to put an EP out at Christmas called 'Prospects March' and we�re expiration to acquittance an album next December to end the decade.�
Elsewhere in the interview, Stipe heaped praise on Coldplay, saying a band as good and genial as them is a rarity.
He gushed: "For me, having been around for 28 years, doing this, I�m thrilled when a band like Coldplay come along. I think great! Here are some contemporaries I respect what they do and they�re really smart fun the great unwashed great people to be around and they�re selfsame close friends."
Coldplay live in Brixton:
More info
