Fans at the Rock Am Ring music festival in Germany this weekend were the first to hear four new songs from Coldplay’s upcoming new album, reports Spinner.
The English alt rockers debuted the never-before-heard tracks Hurts Like Heaven, Major Minus, Us Against the World, and Cartoon Hearts. They also performed their newly-released single Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall, which had come out only days before on June 3.
Within hours of its debut, listeners began pointing out the similarities between Every Teardrop and Mystic’s popular ’90s dance track Ritmo de la Noche, accusing Coldplay of having plagiarized the tune.
The band was quick to point out that they had had actually gained permission to borrow the opening piano riff from an even earlier song – Peter Allen ‘s 1976 tune I Go to Rio – which had also been borrowed for use in Ritmo.
In creating the new single, the band collaborated with the song’s original authors who are credited on Every Teardrop, explained a spokesperson for the band.