Famous British band Coldplay is working on a new album.

Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin said Sunday his band is working on a new album featuring what he called a quintessential song that everybody should hear "before we die."

    Martin and his band spoke hours before the final concert of a Latin American tour that took them to Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

    The band said it plans to return to the studio after a two-year hiatus to record an album that will have a different sound from "X&Y," which has sold more than 2 million copies since it was released in 2005.

    He added that the record will include what could be Coldplay's best song yet.

    "In order for us to get excited about a new album, we have to have one song that we feel like everybody has to hear before we die, otherwise we'll be terribly depressed," Martin said. "So luckily with this new record we're going to make, we have that one song."

    "I can't tell you about it, but it's basically genius," he joked.

    Martin celebrated his 30th birthday on a Mexican beach last week.

2007-03-06