Coldplay the british band last year made their fifth studio album Mylo Xyloto and they released with their single every tear drop is a water fall. Mylo Xyloto is a concept album, and its content follows a story throughout. According to Chris Martin, the album is "based on a love story with a happy ending," in which two protagonists living in an oppressive, dystopian, urban environment, meet one another through a gang and fall in love. Lyrically, the album is inspired by "old school American graffiti" and "the White Rose Movement." Martin also said that the album was influenced by HBO TV series The Wire. Coldplay have stated on several occasions that they want their next studio album to be "more acoustic" and "more intimate" than its predecessor, 2008's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. However, while this was the initial approach, the tone of the record became more electronic in nature. Though songs recorded early in the process such as Us Against The World and U.F.O have maintained the "stripped" approach in the way they reflect the type of album Coldplay intended on recording initially, the overall sound and style of the record is electronic tinged with some of the world beat elements from the predecessor, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. Furthermore, Martin claimed "We have a song called Charlie Brown, which was the centrepiece of this other record we started first. We were playing the riff on an accordion and Guy came in one morning and said, ‘I’m afraid I have to put my foot down. I don’t want to speak out of turn, but I will not allow this song to be played on an accordion - that has to go in with the Mylo bunch’. So then we thought - let’s just make one album." This hints toward the fact that perhaps Coldplay had set out to make Mylo Xyloto a double album or at least an album released simultaneously to accompany another Coldplay album