Chris Martin says X&Y marks the end of this phase of their career. He says the band has been working up some new material while out on tour that has a more stripped down sound. When asked to expand on this change of musical direction, Martin told Xfm, "We're always working on new material. We've got no laurels to rest on. We're still looking for our laurels in my opinion. We've everything to prove and we've finished phase one of Coldplay and now we're going to enter phase two, which could be the Abba phase it could be the transvestite phase, who knows, but it'll definitely be good." It should prove interesting regardless.

Source: NME