U2 Album Needs 2 More Songs Until It's Finished

U2 won't release their new album until 2009, but the band are literally two songs away from finishing the LP.

Interscope-Geffen-A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine tells Billboard he has heard the album and work is nearly complete:

"I met with the guys in U2, and they say to me, 'You know what? This album needs two more songs, and it will be exactly what we have in mind.' I go there and I listen, and I agreed with them."

"It's a great record, but it deserves the time. Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked."

U2's twelfth studio album is the follow-up to 2004's 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'.