However, in the comics based on the album, Mylo Xyloto is the main protagonist and Fly is the sparker girl he encounters. In interviews the band have said that the album follows a love story between Mylo and Xyloto, with them being separate characters. Drummer Will Champion has noted that the album is a story of the characters "falling in love and trying to escape together", with a general theme of "love conquering all". Through Fly, Mylo discovers his sparker abilities and his affiliation with the Car Kids, a major sparker faction founded by Mylo's parents, Aiko and Lela. He encounters Fly, the sparker most wanted by Major Minus. The album follows Mylo Xyloto, a "silencer", a soldier in an army tasked to hunt and track down "sparkers", people who harness light and energy and use it to create sparks, comparable to graffiti in real life. His aim is to take sound and colour off the streets in hope to draw away "feeders", creatures that use such energy to hunt its prey. Silencia has been overtaken by a government led by Major Minus, who controls the population through media and propaganda. The album tells the story of a war against sound and colour by a supremacist government, set in the world of Silencia, an Orwellian society.
Mylo Xyloto is a concept album and a thematic rock opera. The band worked closely with producer Brian Eno following their successful collaboration on Viva la Vida, the band's previous album. Mylo Xyloto (pronounced / ˈ m aɪ l oʊ ˈ z aɪ l ə t oʊ/ MY-loh ZY-lə-toh) is the fifth studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released in late October 2011.