Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:[..]
How do you know doing songs like Invisible isn't what they want? We all (and I've been guilty of this to) seem to equate U2 writing music for THEM and doing what they WANT with experimentation ala Achtung Baby/Passengers. Who's to say what they want isn't more songs like Vertigo and Invisible? Lest we forget Edge said his favourite U2 album was Bomb, which is arguably the most "casual" U2 album there is.
I don't doubt they love being in a band but if they're doing it for the $$ and not the soul, they shouldn't bother, #1 on the charts be damned.
Billboard has confirmed with multiple sources, however, that the album has now been pushed back until 2015, with the band recently scheduling additional sessions with producers Ryan Tedder and Paul Epworth. (Danger Mouse remains onboard as the project's central producer.) "It seems to be taking longer for them to finish an album as they get older, but the great thing about U2 is that the whole of a record is always better than the sum of its parts," says a source close to the project. "That magic that the band always seems to capture ... they have yet to capture it."
Originally posted by dieder:[..]
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5930147/no-u2-album-tour-until-2015-ryan-tedder-paul-epworth
According to several sources in Europe the new #u2 album
will be released before Xmas 2014 (sept), tour 2015 starting in
us.
— U2tour (@U2tour) marzo 7,
2014