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  3. Well if this guy thinks it then we truly are fucked!!

    Doesn’t sound like a great update on Larry either.
  4. Adam had a moustache in the video clip, so on a more optimistic note, I wonder when the interview was actually recorded? It could have been some time ago, for all we know!
  5. Originally posted by claytonstache:Adam had a moustache in the video clip, so on a more optimistic note, I wonder when the interview was actually recorded? It could have been some time ago, for all we know!
    It means that they never planned a new single in the first place... that's worse :0


  6. Seems they might be starting over and pivoting from the Rock album.

    Also Gavin Friday's comments that he gets involved with the U2 albums at the end of a process (rather than the writing stage, i.e. where they are now) don't bode well for a 2025 release.
  7. thank god i have inhaler
  9. I wouldn’t read too much into the stripped back that the songs aren’t there. They maybe just want to record again in different style and feel. What they are into is always an ebb and flow. The Rock record was last year when they were rocking in the Sphere but a year later they maybe feeling that less layered record is a good thing rather then over produced crap which I think AC was kinda.
    Think about their 80’s stuff which was a lot of them just playing together and you could hear all the parts. This is actually positive. I don’t want another u2 song that sounds like the last 12 years.
  11. i really wanted rock n roll album, something like blow your house down, pull the trugger or a boy falls from the sky……………….oh no
  12. Originally posted by Damonio123:i really wanted rock n roll album, something like blow your house down, pull the trugger or a boy falls from the sky……………….oh no


    I don't think they necessarily said no to a rock and roll album. But I can see it being taken that way as well.

    Adam: "If all the world is a loop, I think we've kind of got to the point where we've pushed things as far as we can in terms of adding extra things into the band. Now we kind of want to go back, and kind of take the layers off, and get down to what the band does really well. Which is to play live in a room. There's a freshness to that now, and i don't know if there's many bands that can still make records that way. That's what we want to explore."

    So looking at getting back to the four of them in a room playing music. Maybe that's rock and roll?

    Edge: "Music made in real time in a room with musicians interacting with one other - it just has a narrative, a sonic narrative, which you just cannot create using a different approach -- using layering, drum loops or whatever -- I love that as well. Don't get me wrong I'm not a purist in any sense. I feel that the culture shifts and morphs based on what feels fresh, what's been overplayed, what's been underplayed. I do feel music that's been made in real-time has been underserved. It's starting to feel really fresh again." and he finished with "We're in a good place to make an album like that, because that's what we started out doing."

    They were talking about being inspired by listening to these "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" tracks as well, as well as looking further back. Sounds like they want to play in a room together again and see where that gets them.