Er, I think I kinda wrote the post on the title…
Coldplay have narrowed the track choices to 15 songs (is that called narrowing or completing) amd threaten it will take more risks begging an answer to the musical question: how can it take less risks?
Here are the money quotes off Q via Contact: “We’re down to 15.I’m trying to make sure there are three songs that start with the same letter. On the last album it was ‘L’. It might be ‘U’ this time. One of them is ‘Up With The Birds’. It might be a duet, but we don’t know who with yet. The other two might change “‘Hurts Like Heaven’ is all Jonny. It only has two chords. The songs are group-y, its guitar-y. Johnny is coming out of his cocoon. We’re just trying some risky things.We’re hungry and very fired up. In five years we’ll be in our late 30s. You have to have your best work done my then.”