Bono has up to date followers on the upcoming as-yet-titled studio album by U2 – their follow-up to 2017’s ‘Songs Of Expertise’.
Whereas at Cannes Movie Competition to advertise his upcoming one-man characteristic Bono: Tales of Give up – as a result of stream on Apple TV+ on Could 30 – the Irish rock star spoke with Rolling Stone about new music by the band.
Bono answered cryptically: “Nostalgia is to not be tolerated for too lengthy, however typically you’ve obtained to take care of the previous with the intention to get to the longer term and to the current. To get again to now’s our need. Get again to this second we’re in.”
He then confirmed that the band has been recording, “and it appears like future to me,” he stated. “We needed to undergo some stuff, and we’re on the different finish of it.”
Final November, U2 guitarist The Edge confirmed that drummer Larry Mullen Jr. – who needed to sit out of the band’s historic Las Vegas Sphere residency as a result of damage and recovering from surgical procedure – has been again within the studio with them.
“We’ve been taking part in within the room collectively, the 4 of us,” Bono advised Rolling Stone.
“And I can let you know [Mullen Jr.] is totally by way of no matter storm of damage he’s been by way of. His taking part in is at its most progressive. He’s simply all concerning the band. He doesn’t wish to speak about the rest, which is form of superb.”
Bono added: “By the best way, being a band in a room the place every particular person musician has a task that’s singular and collective is so uncommon as a result of music is assembled today.”
“And even a few of our music we’ve assembled, and we’ll try this once more, however to attempt to seize a second of a rock & roll band in full flight is on the coronary heart of this report that we’re making that we’ve recorded, however we’re not completed.”
Previous to Bono’s feedback, The Edge had primarily been U2’s spokesperson for offering followers with updates, though Bono advised Zane Lowe in 2023 that, by then, Edge had about “100 within the bag. I’ve about 20… however [bassist] Adam [Clayton]’s obtained one thing to contribute.”
Final November, The Edge advised Rolling Stone that the brand new album won’t be “a straight-up rock factor”. In January, he stated new U2 music will arrive “very quickly”.
In NME’s four-star evaluate of Bono: Tales Of Give up, Damian Jones wrote: “Andrew Dominik’s Apple TV+ documentary, shot at New York Metropolis’s Beacon Theatre, is billed as a “vivid reimagining” of the present and in some ways it’s.”
“For one factor, it’s much more intimate with a lot of the movie comprising close-up pictures of Bono as he regales the viewers with tales of his father, spouse, U2 and (unexpectedly) Italian opera legend Pavarotti.”