The Edge says, “We don’t have anything finished yet, so it’s too early to start telling people what it is, but we’re making great progress."
"With so much material to choose from, we’re sort of choosing the best ideas, the best songs. And our problem is narrowing it down, so we’re playing around with kind of underlying themes that will help us I think. Once we got the sort of thematic spine of the lyrics and the ideas then we can sort of fit the songs into that overarching story. And we’re sort of at that phase where it’s time to really start going with the certain songs and putting those to one side."
"Sometimes it’s a four piece, sometimes a three piece. We want the recordings to have the band sound, the band chemistry in it, so that’s kind of a focus as well, which is great. I mean, when we play together it just sounds like us. There's a certain U2 thing that happens."
U2’s last album of original songs 2017's Songs of Experience. That was followed by 2023's Songs of Surrender, which was a collection of re-recordings of 40 of their songs.
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