After announcing it earlier with a handwritten note on Instagram and an intergalactic trailer titled "Overtura," it's now official: Coldplay will release their new, ninth studio album in 2021. "Music Of The Spheres" is the name of the follow-up to their number one double album "Everyday Life" from 2019, for which the pop giants collaborated with star producer Max Martin, who the band already called a "true wonder of the universe" Twelve songs have been written and recorded for it by Chris Martin and co, including lead single "Higher Power", which Coldplay released back in May, and single "Coloratura", which was released in July. The next album single is to follow in September The space theme runs throughout the album, starting with the title and cover art. Five of the twelve tracks on Music Of The Spheres are also represented by predominantly cosmic emojis this time around. Coldplay fans might find this familiar. In addition, the band showed the audio visualizer video for their song "Higher Power," which they themselves described as a form of "extraterrestrial transmission," to French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency aboard the International Space Station (ISS) before it was officially released. Their post about the new album also says, "Thanks for listening, or attending concerts, or any other way we've met through music." We have to say thank you.