Coldplay is expected to release new music today—but under a completely new band name.
“Parlophone Records are delighted to present new signing #LosUnidades,” the band’s record label tweeted with a photo of four people who many have said look like Coldplay.
Parlophone Records are delighted to present new signing #LosUnidades pic.twitter.com/TZWr5ilJXu
— Parlophone Records (@parlophone) November 26, 2018
A Coldplay fan account did some digging to get to the truth. They found that a legal trademark agreement that says the founding members of Los Unidades are the four members of Coldplay—Chris Martin, Jon Buckland, Guy Berryman, and Will Champion.
It’s official.
— ColdplayXtra (@coldplayxtra) November 27, 2018
According to a legal trademark agreement the founding members of #LosUnidades are:
– Chris Martin
– Jon Buckland
– Guy Berryman
– Will Champion
🔗 https://t.co/iujTcynzRI pic.twitter.com/a1Gv6Ff26Y
Fans also looked closely at the poster and found that the series of letter and number at the bottom reading Y02LPAC81ODL is an anagram of COLDPLAY2018.
“I have a theory: Chris said A Head Full of Dreams was the last ‘Coldplay’ album right. In the Head Full of Dreams documentary the band said they still feel they ‘have not got the name right’ what if the new album will be called Los Unidades and is going to be the name they will release music under now,” one person floated.
https://twitter.com/MrAdamMonaghan/status/1067349359379939328
This comes after the band’s friend and collaborator Mat Whitecross told NME they were planning a new album for next year.
“This year, they decided to take off. They haven’t been doing anything as far as I know, but they do have plans for next year, however, I’ve not been party to them,” he said.
Until then, I’m going to listen to “Yellow” by Los Unidades.