"M.M.I.X." is a song by Coldplay from their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto. It is the sixth track and second instrumental song on the album, along with "Mylo Xyloto" and "A Hopeful Transmission".
Background and composition[]
"M.M.I.X." is the second brief instrumental piece on Mylo Xyloto, serving as an interlude track between "Us Against the World" and "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall", with its ending connecting with the latter.
Despite the song's title referring to "2009" in Roman numerals, in an exclusive track by track interview for Music Week, Chris Martin revealed its true meaning, stating: "It doesn't stand for 2009. It came from (long-serving guitar tech) “Mat McGinn is awesome” so I don't know why the fuck it got called that. It has nothing to do with anything... it stands for nothing; it's just a collection of letters."[1]
The song was described by The Guardian as an "interstitial instrumental bedecked with the sound of burbling computers", and Billboard as a "tension-filled electronic interlude provid[ing] quiet build-up to "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall"."[2]
Official audio[]
M.M.I.X.
Critical reception[]
MTV said all three short instrumental songs on the album "feature abstract washes and serve to set the scene for the tracks that follow, and give the album a sense of being very much a unified piece."[3]