Bono has shared an update concerning U2‘s new “sounds like future” currently untitled follow-up full length to 2017’s Songs of Experience.
Along with a cryptic message concerning the importance of the iconic band to “deal with the past” before moving foward, in a recernt Rolling Stone mag interview, the now 65-year old lead singer said:
“Nostalgia is not to be tolerated for too long, but sometimes you’ve got to deal with the past in order to get to the future and to the present. To get back to now is our desire. Get back to this moment we’re in.” “We’ve been recording. And it sounds like future to me. We had to go through some stuff, and we’re at the other end of it.”
Praising U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr.’s recovery after undergoing neck surgery and missing the group’s ‘U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere’ 40-date Las Vegas residency, Bono added:
“We’ve been playing in the room together, the four of us.” “And I can tell you [Mullen Jr.] is completely through whatever storm of injury he’s been through. His playing is at its most innovative. He’s just all about the band. He doesn’t want to talk about anything else, which is kind of amazing.” “By the way, being a band in a room where each individual musician has a role that’s singular and collective is so rare because music is assembled these days. And even some of our music we have assembled, and we’ll do that again, but to try and capture a moment of a rock ‘n’ roll band in full flight is at the heart of this record that we’re making that we’ve recorded, but we are not finished.”
Admitting that he doesn’t know when the new LP will drop, when questioned about the possibility of a special box set to mark the 30th anniversary of U2’s album ‘Pop,’ the lead singer (born Paul David Hewson,) replied:
“Well, I never thought about that. Actually, I’m sure somebody clever has thought of that. But if they haven’t, I’m not aware of it.” “And the film of the ‘PopMart’ tour in Mexico is one of the most extraordinary U2 shows ever. I love the imagery around that album. And the only thing that album wasn’t was pop.”
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Author: Saul Goode
Photo: Anton Corijn, Distributed by Island Records – Public Domain