Coldplay fans now have a sneak peak at what new music from the band will sound like. Coldplay have written an original song "Miracles" for the upcoming film Unbroken, directed and produced by Angelina Jolie. Though the track will not come out until December 15 as part of the soundtrack scored by Academy Award nominee Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech, The Imitation Game, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), a snippet has found its way online via a Sky Movies Christmas advertisement, via Billboard.
The advertisement gives you only a small taste of what to expect from "Miracles," but you hear the quintessential Coldplay sound with emotive piano melodies and moving violins. We do not hear any vocals from Chris Martin because of the advertisement, but it is a good teaser of what is to come from "Miracles."
This is not Coldplay's first stint making music for movie soundtracks. The band contributed "Atlas" to the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack last year. The band released their sixth studio album Ghost Stories in May of this year and has continued to dominate the charts.
The film tells the story of Olympian and war hero Louis "Louie" Zamperini, who along with two other crewman survived in a raft in the Pacific Ocean for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash during World War II only to be captured by the Japanese navy and then sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, via coldplay.com. The film stars Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Miyavi, Garrett Hedlund and Finn Wittrock, with O'Connell playing the lead roll of Zamperini.
Coldplay could be trying to round out their trophy case with an Oscar for original film contribution.
The soundtrack is available for pre-order now on Amazon and the movie will be in theaters on Christmas Day.
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