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Bono: 'U2 Fans will feel the difference on new album'

Upcoming record will have trance, metal and Moroccan influences
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Bono has warned U2 fans they will "feel the difference" with the material they are working on for their next album.

The singer explained that the band are currently working in the south of France on the follow-up to 2004's 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb'. Following demo sessions in Africa earlier in the year, the singer reckons the new record will surprise people.

"We're just beginning the processes," Bono told The Independent. "We did some recording in Morocco last year. All the band went to an amazing religious music festival in Fez with some incredible sufi singers. It was a real humbling thing for a punk rock shouter, listening to these people who just close their eyes for 40 minutes and sing the most sophisticated melodies."

He added: "We got this little riad, a small hotel with a courtyard in the middle and set up the band there, with a square of sky over our head. The two great catalysts of U2's recording life, [producers] Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, joined us. We'd record during the day and then disappear into windy streets of the medina at night. It was an inspiring experience and a drummer's paradise."

The singer said the band are now working through those demos during the French sessions and that while the new record is not world music, he promised fans would "feel the difference".

"U2 in dancefloor shock!" joked Bono. "Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dancefloor. And that may not be true of this. There's some trance influences. But there's some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal. It's not like anything we've ever done before, and we don't think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either."

He explained that fans might even get more than they bargained for.

"We have enough material for two albums but it has to be extraordinary," he explained. "And I think we've got that."

The singer who was speaking to mark World AIDS Day on behalf of the (RED) campaign, insisted the campaign was making a different in Africa and called on the world to increase its efforts.

"Three years ago there was virtually no one in Africa on antiretroviral drugs," he explained. "Now you'll have two million by the end of this year."

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Remy

17 years

Sounds great, but then again, it's Bono and he says a lot. I'll wait curiously

JohnnyVOXX

17 years

AMAZING!!
sounds sooo good!!
enough for 2 albums??? haha!! AWESOME!!!
fans will get more that they bargain for?? COOL !!!!
great news!!
cheers and I hope everything goes well with our boys!!!
thanks for sharing this!!

loftarasa

17 years

Sounds awesome imo. But...and to quote someone from another community:

For the love of God let it be the way he's describing it. Cause I remember "punk rock on Venus" for HTDAAB, and I remember Edge "falling in love again with the electric guitar" before ATYCLB, and while I looooove both of those albums to death, please please please let this actually sound like he's describing.

- I'll only believe it when I hear it.

Remy

17 years

Originally posted by loftarasaSounds awesome imo. But...and to quote someone from another community:

For the love of God let it be the way he's describing it. Cause I remember "punk rock on Venus" for HTDAAB, and I remember Edge "falling in love again with the electric guitar" before ATYCLB, and while I looooove both of those albums to death, please please please let this actually sound like he's describing.

- I'll only believe it when I hear it.

So true, they are so full of bullshit before a new record or a new song. I truly hope this is different but I don't know.

thekaizer

17 years

something tells me that this might be The Edge's definitive record.....solos galore!!!

yeah

17 years

Gonna quote me from here

Next statement will be "Edge is on fire" or "it's like punkrock made on venus"

Just the usual yadda yadda. Pretty funny and part of U2 releases for years.

notcomingdown

17 years

If there is even a trace of truth to that, then I'm pumped. It sounds too good to be true though.

djrlewis

17 years

Is it me or does this 'exclusive' on NME's pages sound exactly like the article that Yeah posted last week from The Independent (HERE).

This topic should link to that thread and be closed.

germcevoy

17 years

More Bono hype. Good to keep hearing stuff though.

MWSAH

17 years

I think it's gonna sound like Levitate or somethin'...

djrlewis

17 years

It's definitely the same article as The Independent. The wording is identical:-

Originally posted by Gerard*** On the music the band have been writing since visiting Morocco earlier this year.***

"World music this is not," he says, though U2 fans will "feel the difference". Polyrhythmic is the word he chooses with a self-deprecating laugh. "U2 in dancefloor shock. Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dancefloor. And that may not be true of this. There's some trance influences. But there's some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal. It's not like anything we've ever done before, and we don't think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either."

He hopes to have a new U2 album out next year. "We have enough material for two albums but it has to be extraordinary. And I think we've got that."

Originally posted by argyle_g
The singer said the band are now working through those demos during the French sessions and that while the new record is not world music, he promised fans would "feel the difference".

"U2 in dancefloor shock!" joked Bono. "Normally when you play a U2 tune, it clears the dancefloor. And that may not be true of this. There's some trance influences. But there's some very hardcore guitar coming out of The Edge. Real molten metal. It's not like anything we've ever done before, and we don't think it sounds like anything anyone else has done either."

He explained that fans might even get more than they bargained for.
"We have enough material for two albums but it has to be extraordinary," he explained. "And I think we've got that."

We only need one thread on speculation!! Exciting as it undoubtedly is..........

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