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U2 have confirmed details of their new album, Songs Of Experience - the follow-up to 2014's somewhat controversial Songs Of Innoncence.
It seems like a lifetime ago that U2 decided it was a good idea to upload their thirteenth album onto everyone's iTunes, whether they wanted it or not. The move was met with varying degrees of delight and disgust from fans and musicians alike.
Undeterred, they've now begun working on its follow-up, Songs Of Experience. Speaking to Q, The Edge compared it to the band's 1993 album Zooropa - though that's mainly because it's being recorded during down-time in the middle of a tour, rather than because of a specific sound.
Though The Edge did also claim that producer Brian Eno "would love to see us making albums a bit more like that. Where we go, 'You know what? We're not going to second-guess any of this. Let's just go for it.' I think there's a quality you get when there's a certain momentum to the process."
Bono, meanwhile, said that his recent cycling accident helped the album's progress: "The gift of it was that I had time to write while in the mentality that you get to at the end of an album. There is a reason why all the great groups made their best albums while in and around touring, because the ideas have to come out of your head."
The album's title, as well as that of its predecessor, comes from Bono's love of William Blake's 1789 poetry compilation Songs Of Innocence And Experience. It's set fo release at some point this year.
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