U2009

Could this be a bad sign?????

U2‘s next album was expected to be released this fall, though it’s now been pushed to early 2009.

The band will continue to write and record material until then. Currently, they’ve been recording in the south of France.

They’ve also confirmed the delay of the new album on their official website.

Bono says, “This is our chance for us to defy gravity once again. We have what it takes, we have the songs, new rhythms and a guitar player who is not ready to re-enter earth’s atmosphere until he’s taken a slice of the moon!”

He adds, “It’s been fun, it’s been maddening… there have been injuries and recoveries, no babies born that I know of, but this one is nearly ready for the new year of 2009.”

The new album will be a follow up to their 2004 How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.

It’s been that long????

Bono continues, “It├óΓé¼Γäós a brand new chapter for us, and everyone we├óΓé¼Γäóve played the tracks to has said that musically it feels like another departure.”

“The last two records were very personal, with a kind of three piece at their heart, the primary colours of rock – bass, guitars and drum. But what we├óΓé¼Γäóre about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from The Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby,” he says.

And according to Bono, there were about 50 or 60 new songs for the band to consider for their new album.

So let’s hope this one is the best of them all.

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