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U2: “We Want 2009 to Be Our Year”
4-Sep-2008
Written by: Dean Stattmann
U2 pushes release date back to work on “best ever album.”
U2 fans will have to wait until 2009 to hear the band’s next release. The album, which was scheduled to drop in the fall, has been pushed back to allow for more time in the studio, the Hollywood Reporter reported.
"I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there's more priceless stuff to be found?" frontman Bono wrote on U2.com.
According to THR, the band has spent time with longtime collaborators Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite, and has been spotted recording in the South of France, Dublin and Fez.
The tracks are "amazing and a little out there. I hope they don't change anything," said one Billboard source close to the project. But which tracks will even be on the album? According to Bono, the band has over 50 new songs to consider, an amount that far surpasses what can be contained on one disk, or even two.
While we don’t know which tracks will be featured on the follow-up to 2004’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, we do have some names. According to THR, these include “Get on Your Boots,” “For Your love,” “Breathe,” “No Line on the Horizon” and “Moment of Surrender.”
"I'm always the one who underestimates how easy it is to simply 'put out the songs now.' If it was just up to me they'd be out already!" Bono said. "But early next year people will be able to start hearing what we've been doing. We want 2009 to be our year, so we're going to start making an impression very early on."
"The last two records were very personal, with a kind of three piece at their heart, the primary colors of rock - bass, guitars and drum," he said. "But what we're about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from 'The Joshua Tree' to 'Achtung Baby.'"
"We know we have to emerge soon, but we also know that people don't want another U2 album unless it is our best ever album. It has to be our most innovative, our most challenging ... or what's the point?"
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