U2 New Material Returns To Joshua Tree Days
Published Wednesday, 3rd September, 2008 at 5:59 PM
U2 plan to return to the sound of their 1987 album 'The Joshua Tree', on their new long-player.
The Irish rockers are currently working on new material in the South of France, with the aim of releasing the currently untitled to their 2004 album 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' in early 2009.
"It's a brand new chapter for us," says singer Bono via the band's official website. "Everyone we've 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're about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from 'The Joshua Tree' to 'Achtung Baby'"
As for when U2 plan to finish work on the record, Bono added: "We know we have to emerge soon, but we 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?"
