Bono provides update on new U2 album: “It sounds like future to me”
U2 frontman Bono has provided a fresh update on the next U2 album and confirmed they are in the process of making a new record.
It’s been eight years since U2 released their last album, Songs of Experience, the longest time in the band’s history between full-length records. Ahead of their MSG Sphere residency in Las Vegas beginning in 2023, they shared the single ‘Atomic City’, but no album has followed.
“Well, they’re right,” he said of fans becoming restless about new music in a new interview with Rolling Stone, before providing an update.
The singer continued: “And 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.”
However, when probed about when he expects the album to be finished, Bono bluntly provided the single word answer, “No”.
In the same interview, Bono spoke of drummer Larry Mullen Jr’s health after he was forced to miss their Las Vegas residency after undergoing neck surgery.
Bono positively shared: “We’ve been playing in the room together, the four of us. And I can tell you he 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.”
He also said of U2’s unique dynamic: “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.”
The U2 frontman’s new documentary, Bono: Stories of Surrender, is set to arrive on Apple TV+ on May 30th.
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