We already reported on Trent Reznor’s joke for April Fools’ Day, but other artists have gotten into the act, as well.

Most prominent among them is Coldplay, who posted on their site that they would record their next album in zero gravity aboard a Boeing 727. Brian Eno would help them to record the album on a 1969 analog cassette player, while the band would wear cosmonaut suits. Chris Martin said that the band had “been searching for the right environment to record the perfect snare drum sound for many years now,” and that zero gravity might just be the place.

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Brian Eno has reportedly signed on to do the score for the new Peter Jackson film, an adaptation of the Alice Sebold’s novel Lovely Bones, starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, and Saoirse Ronan.

The film is mostly set in heaven, so it’s plausible that Eno was brought on for those scenes, to provide his renowned expertise in creating sound environments.

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