The Fountain is the eleventh studio album from Echo and the Bunnymen, and the fifth since their reformation in 1997. It features a guest spot from Coldplay's Chris Martin, who contributed to a track after he signed on head Bunnyman Ian McCulloch for production duties on A Rush of Blood to the Head. McCulloch has stated to the U.K.'s Sunday Mail that this album sounds like a debut record, and that he has his "...crocodilian spike back, that way I write lyrics about everything but nothing specific." The Scottish songwriter John McLaughlin produced The Fountain.