Martin made the revelation during an interview with BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe where they were discussing the band's song "Magic," off their current album Ghost Stories, being named "hottest record of the year."

He had this to say about the new album, "It's our seventh thing, and the way we look at it, it's like the last Harry Potter book or something like that. Not to say that there might not be another thing one day, but this is the completion of something."

He went on to explain why they view the new album, tentatively titled A Head Full of Dreams, as their last. He said, "I have to think of it as the final thing we're doing. Otherwise we wouldn't put everything into it."