“We’ve been recording. And it appears like future to me”

Bono has up to date followers on the upcoming as-yet-titled studio album by U2 – their follow-up to 2017’s ‘Songs Of Expertise’.

Whereas at Cannes Movie Pageant to advertise his upcoming one-man function Bono: Tales of Give up – as a consequence of stream on Apple TV+ on Might 30 – the Irish rock star spoke with Rolling Stone about new music by the band.

Bono answered cryptically: “Nostalgia is to not be tolerated for too lengthy, however typically you’ve bought to cope with the previous to be able to get to the longer term and to the current. To get again to now could be our need. Get again to this second we’re in.”

He then confirmed that the band has been recording, “and it appears like future to me,” he stated. “We needed to undergo some stuff, and we’re on the different finish of it.”

Final November, U2 guitarist The Edge confirmed that drummer Larry Mullen Jr. – who needed to sit out of the band’s historic Las Vegas Sphere residency as a consequence of damage and recovering from surgical procedure – has been again within the studio with them.

“We’ve been enjoying within the room collectively, the 4 of us,” Bono instructed Rolling Stone.

“And I can let you know [Mullen Jr.] is totally by means of no matter storm of damage he’s been by means of. His enjoying is at its most modern. He’s simply all concerning the band. He doesn’t wish to speak about the rest, which is type of wonderful.”

Bono added: “By the best way, being a band in a room the place every particular person musician has a task that’s singular and collective is so uncommon as a result of music is assembled lately.”

“And even a few of our music we have now assembled, and we’ll try this once more, however to try to seize a second of a rock & roll band in full flight is on the coronary heart of this document that we’re making that we’ve recorded, however we're not completed.”

Previous to Bono’s feedback, The Edge had primarily been U2’s spokesperson for offering followers with updates, though Bono instructed Zane Lowe in 2023 that, by then, Edge had about “100 within the bag. I've about 20… however [bassist] Adam [Clayton]’s bought one thing to contribute.”

Final November, The Edge instructed Rolling Stone that the brand new album won't be “a straight-up rock factor”. In January, he stated new U2 music will arrive “very quickly”.

In NME’s four-star overview of Bono: Tales Of Give up, Damian Jones wrote: “Andrew Dominik’s Apple TV+ documentary, shot at New York Metropolis’s Beacon Theatre, is billed as a “vivid reimagining” of the present and in some ways it's.”

“For one factor, it’s much more intimate with a lot of the movie comprising close-up pictures of Bono as he regales the viewers with tales of his father, spouse, U2 and (unexpectedly) Italian opera legend Pavarotti.”