Earlier this month Coldplay announced that their seventh studio album, A Head Full of Dreams, would be their final album, or as frontman Chris Martin described it "last Harry Potter book." The band is in the middle of recording the album, but it the meantime, you can hear a new song they recorded for Angelina Jolie's second directorial project Unbroken called "Miracles."
A preview of the song was recently featured in an advertisement for Sky Movies Christmas in November, but now you can hear "Miracles" in full. It will be featured on the film's soundtrack scored by Academy Award nominee Alexandre Desplat (The King's Speech, The Imitation Game, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), which is due out on iTunes Dec. 15.
Unbroken follows the life of Olympic athlete Louis "Louie" Zamperini, who becomes a World War II hero after surviving a near-fatal plane crash, spending 47 days at sea on a raft only to be captured by the Japanese navy and forced to live for more than two-and-a-half years in several Japanese prisoner camps.
"Miracles" features Martin singing about angles, stars, lightning, beauty in the world and, of course, miracles over warm guitar strumming, twinkling piano, and clapping sounds.
"Oh, now I'm floating so high," he sings on the chorus. "I blossom and die / Send your storm and your lightning to strike / Right between the eyes."
This isn't Coldplay's first foray into writing music for movies. The band contributed "Atlas" to the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack last year.
Unbroken is due out Christmas Day and stars Jack O'Connell in the lead role of Zamperinni alongside Domhnall Gleeson, Miyavi, Garrett Hedlund and Finn Wittrock.
Meanwhile, Martin revealed last week that A Head Full of Dreams will drop in May 2015, less than a year after their sixth album, Ghost Stories.
Check out "Miracles" below, and let us know what you think in the comments section!
