page_title: Mylo Xyloto
section_title: Release and promotion
hierarchical_section_title: Mylo Xyloto / Release and promotion
caption_attribution_description: English: Coldplay performing at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 6, 2012.
context_page_description: Mylo Xyloto is the fifth studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released in late October 2011. The band worked closely with producer Brian Eno following their successful collaboration on Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, the band's previous album.
  Mylo Xyloto is a concept album and a thematic rock opera. The album tells the story of a war against sound and colour by a supremacist government, set in the world of Silencia, an Orwellian society. Silencia has been overtaken by a government led by Major Minus, who controls the population through media and propaganda. His aim is to take sound and colour off the streets in hope to draw away "feeders", creatures that use such energy to hunt its prey. The album follows Mylo, a "silencer", a soldier in an army tasked to hunt and track down "sparkers", people who harness light and energy and use it to create sparks, comparable to graffiti in real life. He encounters Xyloto, the sparker most wanted by Major Minus. Through Xyloto, Mylo discovers his sparker abilities and his affiliation with the Car Kids, a major sparker faction founded by Mylo's parents, Aiko and Lela.
context_section_description: The album was set to be released in December 2010 as a "decade-ender", but was postponed to 2011 since the album was far from finished as Coldplay concluded their Viva la Vida Tour. Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland mentioned that the album would be released in the latter year.
  The iTunes Store let users hear one new song from the album every day the week before until the album was released.
  The album was released on 24 October 2011 on CD and on vinyl. A special edition of the album that includes the CD, digital copy and LP disc along with copies of the band's studio notes, stencils, a poster, a pop up book and stickers was made available on 19 December 2011.
caption: The Mylo Xyloto Tour was noted for its large scale display of pyrotechnics, laser lighting and Xylobands. (Pictured: Coldplay performing at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 6, 2012)
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