Coldplay planning to rush release their new album.

Hot on the heels of June's 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends', the
band have reportedly already recorded the majority of its follow-up and plan
to have it ready early next year.
A source at the band's record label, EMI, told Britain's The Sun newspaper:
"The 'Viva La Vida' sessions were incredibly fruitful. They gelled
brilliantly with producer Brian Eno and recorded much more music than they
could fit on one album.
"The majority of the follow-up is already in the can, though they will have
to go back into the studio at some point to add a few more songs."
Lead singer Chris Martin recently let slip the group are hoping to release a
collaboration with pop singer Kylie Minogue next year.
He said: "It will be on a record we will put out in 2009, some time next
year. The album will neatly wrap up things for the end of the decade, then,
I don't know what we'll do."
If Coldplay release another album and follow it with a greatest hits
compilation it is believed they will have fulfilled their contractual
obligations to EMI and would be free agents.
The band could then follow in the footsteps of artists such as Sir Paul
McCartney and Radiohead - who have left the label after its takeover last
year.
The EMI source added to Britain's The Sun newspaper: "Standard industry
contracts tend to be for six albums, so if they provide some kind of
compilation after their next album they will be free agents and able to
renegotiate their contract or head out on their own."

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