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U2's new album put back until 2009
Thursday 4 September 2008
Writing on the band's official website, Bono said: "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?"
He continued: "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?"
The singer revealed that the band had "50 or 60" new songs to consider for the album, the follow-up to 2004's 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb'.
He said: "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'."
Among the songs the band have worked on are: 'Get on Your Boots', 'For Your Love', 'Breathe', 'No Line on the Horizon' and 'Moment of Surrender', which is eight minutes long.
Bono added: "We want 2009 to be our year, so we're going to start making an impression very early on."
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