Bono says U2 “defy gravity”

Bono has been telling the official U2 website that recording sessions for their new album are going very well indeed thank you very much, with the band apparently looking back to their seminal ‘Joshua Tree’ album for inspiration.

He said: “This is our chance for us to defy gravity once again. We have what it takes, we have the songs, new rhythms and a guitar player who is not ready to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere until he’s taken a slice of the moon! It’s been fun, it’s been maddening… there have been injuries and recoveries, no babies born that I know of, but this one is nearly ready for the new year of 2009″.

Explaining the process for the writing and recording of the new album, he continued: “When we set out on this record it was Larry who came up with the plan not to have a plan. He put up this idea that wouldn’t it be great just to make music for its own sake, not for the purpose of a live show or on album but just to see what we’re capable of. We’ve hit a rich songwriting vein. It gets a bit dark down here but looks like we’ve found diamonds not coal. I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there’s more priceless stuff to be found? We said to each other that if we got to the great place then we wouldn’t stop”.

He went on: “We know we have to emerge soon but we also know that people don’t want another U2 album unless it is our best ever album. It has to be our most innovative, our most challenging … or what’s the point? It’s a brand new chapter for us, and everyone we’ve played the tracks to has said that musically it feels like another departure. The last two records were very personal, with a kind of three piece at their heart, the primary colours of rock - bass, guitars and drum. But what we’re about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from ‘The Joshua Tree’ to ‘Achtung Baby’”.

Reconfirming that we’re talking early next year before any of this new music surfaces, he concludes: “I’m always the one who underestimates how easy it is to simply ‘put out the songs now’, if it was just up to me they’d be out already! But early next year people will be able to start hearing what we’ve been doing. We want 2009 to be our year, so we’re going to start making an impression very early on”.

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