Coldplay new album A Head Full of Dreams will sound like 'Oasis and Drake'

Chris Martin wanted the band to 'marry all the music that they love'

Chris Martin is the most listened-to father of 2015 (Getty Images)

Coldplay’s Chris Martin has hinted that fans can expect new album A Head Full of Dreams to sound like a cross between unlikely culprits Oasis and Drake.

The band’s seventh studio record will apparently be a “hippie album about love and acceptance and embracing what happens to you”.

“We wanted to marry all the music that we love, from Drake to Oasis,” Martin told Rolling Stone. “There was a feeling that we don’t have anything to lose.

“We’re very comfortable now with the fact that we’re not for everybody. All of our records were a journey to get to this one.”

Chris Martin while recording X&Y, 2004

Noel Gallagher’s guitar cameo on “Up & Up” makes more sense in the wake of Martin’s comments, while Beyonce will also guest on two tracks including “Hymn For the Weekend”. Martin’s ex-wife, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, provides backing vocals on song “Everglow”.

Martin came up with the idea of asking Beyonce to collaborate after listening to Flo Rida and pondering whether Coldplay could ever do “one of those late-night club songs”.

“I thought I’d like to have a song called ‘Drinks On Me’ where you sit on the side of a club and buy everyone drinks because you’re so fucking cool,” he told The Wall Street Journal.

“I presented it to the rest of the band and they said, ‘We love this song but there’s no way you can sing ‘drinks on me’. So that changed into ‘drink from me’ and the idea of having an angelic person in your life. Then that turned into asking Beyonce to sing on it.”

A Head Full of Dreams is released on 4 December.