Mellow yellow Brit. pop rocksters Coldplay are back with X & Y, a much anticipated third album set to release June 7th. With the recent release of the single Speed of Sound, fans savored a small taste of what the new album has in store. Over the past year, Coldplay recorded with the production assistance of Danton Supple and Ken Nelson, popular UK record producers who have worked on the albums of musicians such as Morrissey, The Cure, and Kings of Convenience.Chris Martin, pianist, guitarist and lead singer of coldplay told NME.COM: "Writing is what we've been doing all day, every day. It's been quite turbulent. We've been through a lot of songs and a lot of sounds, a lot of studios. It took us a long time to realize the four of us should go into a rehearsal room again and play together rather than rely on technological assistance." Martin continued: "We've got some #@!$ing good songs. That's one thing we are sure of. I don't think we'll top this. I always say that, but this time I really mean it. I really don't think we'll top it." Adding "It's got to be better than the other two otherwise there is no point in releasing it."While doing research for the article, I found that Coldplay had only allotted one musical media source the opportunity to hear half the tracks on the album for a review. The source described the material on the new album as "a huge progression from the classic Coldplay sound, mixing their trademark anthems with '70s electronica." The source also noted that the albums over all sound was most influenced by David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Brian Eno, also noting that the track ‘Talk' features the riff from Kraftwerk's ‘Computer Love'.Although the only track I've heard from the album was Speed of Sound, I would have to agree with the previous description. While Coldplay maintains their mellow philosophical sound, the band definitely breaks away with a refreshing late70's early 80's retro new-wave sound found mostly in the drum and keyboards sections. As a Coldplay fan, I personally think the new sound complements the band's classical tonality of dreamy abstraction. Below I attached some of the lyrics from Speed of Sound I thought were most eloquent – look up, I look up at night planets are moving at the speed of light come up, up in the trees every chance that you get is a chance you seizeand all that noise, all that sound all these pieces that I have found and the earth is gone flying at the speed of sound to show how it all began birds come flying from the underground if you could see it then you'd understandIdeas that you'll never find all the inventors could never designA cool note about the funky Album Art – Coldplay astounded fans when they revealed the artwork for X & Y, which consisted of a series of cryptic colour-coded blocks.Fans discovered that the blocks are graphical representations loosely based on a binary code known as 'Baudot', invented by Frenchman Emile Baudot in 1870. Using five bit color sequences, the code generates a binary representation for each letter or character in the western alphabet.The hidden letters found on the album cover revealed the letters X & Y, which is the title of the band's third album set to release this June.