The album was produced by long-term collaborators Markus Dravs and Rik Simpson as well as the band's front of house engineer Daniel Green, with what is described as "enoxification" and additional composition from Brian Eno, who produced Viva La Vida.

The album includes Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, which reached number six in the UK charts earlier this year and has racked up 177,000 sales domestically, as well as next single Paradise, which goes on sale on September 12, the ...