U2, the new album is almost finished

The new U2 album is “almost finished”, but to listen to it it will still have to have patience. The indiscretion comes from U2songs.com, always very reliable source for everything related to the band. The album will be the first unpublished project from 2017, the year of publication of “Songs of Experience”, and will therefore mark a return to new music after a long period marked by celebratory tours, parallel projects and retrospective publications. According to the site, HLI U2 will return to the studio by the end of September to continue working on the disc with the goal of ending it shortly, closing the recordings by the end of 2025. At the moment, the album does not yet have a definitive title nor has the graphic design work started, even if any photo shoots for the cover would have already been made.
The band would not have to plan the exit until the albim will not be completely finished and – notes the site – considering the technical times necessary for the physical production of vinyl, it will take at least 6 months between the closure of the master and the distribution in the shops. The exit of the disc is therefore conceivable for second half of 2026. But, given that the work is still in progress, it is not excluded that the times can slip further, moving the publication to 2027.

Almost eight years have passed since the latest U2 unpublished album, but the band has been in business for some time: always U2songs reported that in August 2024 the four erabus musicians returned to the studio, starting practically from scratch to understand the direction to be given to the new job. At the end of November three or four songs had already emerged from the first session, and further sessions took place in the following weeks. Details had emerged on two parallel projects: one, described as “four men in a room”, saw the band at work with Jacknife Lee (producer of Snow Patrol and Rem, as well as Bono’s collaborator in the solo tour). The other, which started as a collaboration between Bono and The Edge, had been called “Sci-Fi Irish Folk” and involved Brian Eno. According to U2songs, the two projects would then be merged, and the band would now be working with Eno at the official U2 album.

When Rockol interviewed Bono last Primaverra, the singer thus summarized the internal functioning of the band: “Springsteen said a fun thing on the musical groups:” Democracy is used for places like Iraq. But not for a rock group. ” It is always amazed by the fact that we four U2 divide everything in equal parts and that we are still very democratic. A dynamic that explains the long times and the many discussions behind each project.