U2 have revealed that they are planning to release another new album before 2009 is over.

 

The band described the album as a "companion" to new effort 'No Line On The Horizon', released today (March 2), and that it will be more meditative than their latest effort.

 

The band added that they would not be considering breaking from the traditional cycle of record releases in the style of Radiohead.

 

"My instinct is to stick with the record guys," guitarist The Edge told the New York Times. "They have to sell your records or sell the downloads, whatever it ends up being.

 

"To do that, first of all you've got to love and understand the music, and right now I'm not seeing any group that rivals the record labels on that front."

 

Frontman Bono added: "I'm interested in commerce. The excuse for bigness is that songs demand to be heard if they're any good. And without the kind of momentum of being in a big rock 'n roll band, you won't get your songs heard."

 

from NME.com

 

Two albums in one year?! :o

well i really hope its true as it will make up for no line on the horizon as i cannot express how disappointed i am with the new album,i am gutted and i mean gutted with disappointment since i bought it and so disappointed that it will take me a while to play it again,new line on the horizon has gone so so wrong does anyone else feel the same asi do

Another album? :blink: :unsure:

I remember they said with Atomic Bomb too and it never happened. Although I have a feeling it might happen this time as it sounds like it's finished. I think it will be released sometime next year though, in the middle of the tour. They need to get three or four singles out from this album first.

Well, they did say they had recorded 1,823 songs and had to whittle it down to 11. So I guess they have a few spares :P

1, 823?! :o

JESUS! They could make about another 100 albums after this one then... :heehee:

1800 songs and they release that awful boots song. :o

 

Details on the new album/single: http://www.nme.com/news/u2/43213

 

 

'Every Breaking Wave' - I LOVE that as the single's title!

Wow, interesting news! :cheer: I vote for another album great as this one! :cheer:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertai...a-14213007.html

 

New U2 album 'within months' as Bono reveals new rock persona

 

Thursday, 5 March 2009

 

You wait five years for a U2 album, then two come along at once.

 

Their latest offering is still fresh on the shelves, but U2 yesterday revealed that their next effort could be in the shops within months.

 

Frontman Bono also said he knows what the first single from the next album, which would be a quick-fire follow-up to 'No Line On The Horizon', will be.

 

The new album will be called 'Songs of Ascent' and will be a sister album to their latest release -- a trick U2 already pulled with 'Achtung Baby' and 'Zooropa' and in the early 1990s.

 

Bono said that it would be a quieter album than the current effort, and the lead single will be called 'Every Breaking Wave', a track pulled from 'No Line On the Horizon' at the last minute.

 

"We're making a kind of heartbreaker, a meditative, reflective piece of work, but not indulgent," he said, hinting it could arrive in the next year.

 

"It will have a clear mood, like [Miles Davis'] Kind of Blue. Or [John Coltrane's] A Love Supreme would be a point of reference, for the space it occupies in people's lives, which is to say, with that album, I almost take my shoes off to listen to it."

 

The quick follow-up would be in stark contrast to 'No Line On the Horizon' which saw recording sessions scattered over two years in five different countries, with four different producers.

 

"It is now easier and more affordable to record a song than at any other time in the history of recorded music," bassist Adam Clayton told the new edition of 'Rolling Stone' magazine. "Unless you're U2".

 

Bono and the Edge are also working on music for Julie Taymor's forthcoming Broadway musical 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'. The singer told the magazine that he is also hopeful of getting an album's worth of material out of the "spider songs".

 

"If we do, it'll be a monster, cause it's the most accessible music we've probably ever written."

 

He is also working on a new character 'Jesse' in the style of his 'Fly' and 'Mephisto' personas, which explains his recent appearance in eyeliner.

 

Revealing that the glam look was actually influenced by Elvis, he added: "It's still in development! I started just messing with it a few weeks ago."

 

Bono's desire to move on with future projects may be a direct response to the lukewarm reception for the band's current single 'Get On Your Boots'.

 

"I was going off the song myself for a minute," said Bono of the album's lead single. "And then the Grammys really put me back on it. I really enjoyed performing it. It's gonna take a little longer to stick.

 

"It was never an obvious first single . . . it's an earnest love song. :blink: That's what's beautiful about it."

 

i hope they do another album but how they gonna do that i took them 4 or 5 years to do this one

and get on your boots woz gud but not that gud as it had lots of other songs in it

I think they said they had already recorded loads of tracks and obviously could only use 11 or 12 on NLOTH. So they have another album's worth left over. ^_^