U2 Start New Album
Brand new studio set to be with us soon
U2 have confirmed that they have started work on their new studio album.
The Edge revealed the news to Entertainment Weekly, and says that the new material is shaping up well.
"We are working on a lot of new songs. Some of them are really, really happy. We’re convinced that we have something really special. It’s like deciding whether we are going to release the album before the tour starts or leave it for a while, we don’t really know yet. Literally, within a day of getting off the road, Bono and I were working on new songs. On a roll.”
The guitarist says that the direction of the album is still uncertain, but it’s possible it may be more electronic than their last few albums.
"We try and keep things moving forward. We are experimenting with a lot of different arrangements, and electronic is one of the things we are playing with. But there are other songs that are very traditional, almost folk. In some ways, that’s the thing we haven’t figured out yet, is where this album is going to end up. We’re having fun with the process.”
It remains to be seen whether the unreleased material from the No Line On The Horizon sessions will be included on the new album. In a couple of interviews in 2009 the band revealed that they had a lot of unreleased material which would be released as a new album called Songs Of Ascent.
U2 return to the UK in June to headline the Friday night of the Glastonbury Festival.
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