“Bono and I are engaged on some loopy sort of sci-fi Irish people music.” U2 guitarist The Edge says the band are recording with Brian Eno, however not on the “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” Bono promised

U2 guitarist The Edge has revealed that the band are engaged on new music, however maybe not the sort of music that anybody was anticipating.

Final yr, frontman Bono instructed The New York Occasions that he wished to make a “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album”, stating “Proper now I need to write probably the most unforgiving, obnoxious, defiant, fuck-off-to-the-pop-charts rock ‘n’ roll music that we’ve ever made.”

“I don’t suppose the world is ready on the following U2 album,” Bono later admitted to Mojo journal’s Danny Eccleston. “I believe now we have to provide them a cause to be involved in it. I simply need to write nice tunes, as a result of that’s the place U2 began – with huge choruses, clear concepts. And let’s return there, however do it with some petrol and a few matches.”

Nonetheless, this doesn’t look like the place the band’s heads are at at this second in time, if The Edge’s feedback to BBC Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley yesterday (November 25) are to be believed.

Throughout the dialog, The Edge revealed that he and Bono have been working in Dublin with ambient music pioneer Brian Eno.

“Bono and I are engaged on some loopy sort of sci-fi Irish people music,” he says. “Which might find yourself changing into part of the brand new U2 album. We’re undecided but, we’ll see.”