Their new album may be called “Moon Music,” but Coldplay took the stage at a strangely sunny hour on Monday for a rare club show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.

I mean, it was still late afternoon, not even evening, when the alt-rock giants shrank to everyday size in the 650-capacity venue that was infinitely more intimate than their recent local concerts at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. NJ.

“Getting the band Coldplay to perform before 9 p.m. is one of the hardest things in the world,” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin told the audience at the private SiriusXM concert, now available to stream on the service.

“And the reason we’re playing so early this afternoon is because we’re doing the ‘Today’ show tomorrow, which starts at like 3:15,” he continued, joking, “which is actually just a sound check for . “that somehow.”

All joking aside, Coldplay started long before the normal rock star hours, but they’re the biggest responsibility possible for a band whose core audience has reached middle age, just like them. And so they’ve carefully scrutinized the promotional rounds for their tenth studio album, Moon Music – and as they recently announced, there are only two more planned: Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night. Live” before her SiriusXM show and “Today” appearance on Tuesday morning.

They worked in New York, like most acts with far fewer pedigrees than these days – and are still trying to sell their new songs, even if most people still only see “Yellow,” “Clocks” and “Viva La Vida.” want to hear.

“I know it frustrates a lot of people when you’re an older band because we’re still making new songs, and I know that’s annoying to some of you,” said Martin, always boyish and wiry at 47 .

“But you know, once upon a time, even the song ‘Viva La Vida’ was new and everyone in the room was like, ‘What the hell is that?’ …Every new song we have, a lot of people say it’s terrible, and then ten years later it’s a worldwide superclassic.”

Coldplay opened with the atmospheric title song “Moon Music” before Martin joined the rest of the band as solo singer: guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion.

They’ll get their money’s worth with the feel-good vibes of “feelslikeimfallinginlove,” the “Moon Music” single that’s another classic Coldplay anthem – damn it in the charts.

They transitioned from the Max Martin-produced pop bliss to the driving, U2-esque rock of “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face” from their 2002 masterpiece “A Rush of Blood to the Head.”

It was a jolt that wasn’t as jarring as it once was: Coldplay is now as much pop as rock.

Other new songs like “We Pray” – on which Coldplay was joined by Palestinian-Chilean singer Elyanna and Argentinian star Tini – and the soul-disco bop “Good Feelings” with Nigerian singer Ayra Starr showed the group’s global power .

Coldplay also debuted a new song, “The Karate Kid,” from the deluxe version of “Moon Music,” which featured Martin starting and ending on the piano while providing the falsetto feel – as if he were doing it for himself and the Elaborate volume real time.

Coldplay then treated the “superfans” to the 10-minute “Coloratura” from 2021’s Music of the Spheres, which felt like a prelude to the space trip heard on Moon Music.

Afterwards, Martin said, “Okay, let’s play ‘Yellow.’ Thank you for allowing us to do that.”

But while Martin finds “something beautiful” again in “Yellow” — as he does every time — he may have another Coldplay in the new piano ballad “All My Love,” which closed the show before it even got dark outside -Heart melter found.