Watch: Coldplay Make Surprise Return With ‘Midnight’

returning single ‘Midnight’ is unexpected in several ways. 1) It’s a standalone single, released out of the blue. 2) It sees the band recruiting vocoder for the first time. They end up sounding a little like Bon Iver, only with more twinkling bells and obviously a lot more Chris Martin.

There’s none of the nu-rave-revivalism of last album ‘Mylo Xyloto’. Glowsticks could be appropriate, at a push. Actually thinking about this, this song could go into full on ‘Coldplay party mode’ in an instant. Instead it gets very darkwave-y and mindblowingly synth-y.

Watch/listen below. Jon Hopkins produces.