U2's twelfth studio album

Infobox Album
Name = Album Title TBA
Type = Studio
Artist = U2


Released = Early 2009
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Island Records
Interscope Records (US)
Producer = Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois
Reviews =
Last album = "Live from Paris"
(2006)
This album = "Unknown Title"
(2009)
Next album = ...

U2's twelfth studio album is set to be released in early 2009.cite news |url=http://www.u2.com/news/index.php?mode=full&news_id=2249 |title=Bono reveals U2 album details |date=2008-08-15 |first=Kath |last=McCabe |work=The Daily Telegraph |accessdate=2008-08-18] In July 2006 it was reported by U2.com in an email to subscribers that U2 has started recording for a new album.cite web |url=http://www.atu2.com/newalbum |title=U2 New Album Information |publisher=@U2.com |accessdate=]

Recording

In late 2006, it was reported by numerous sources that Rick Rubin worked with U2 on the follow-up to 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb in the south of France and in Abbey Road Studios [cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1541543/20060922/u2.jhtml |title=Green Day, U2 Take Historic Collaboration One Step Further By Re-Enacting Beatles' Abbey Road LP Cover |publisher=VH1.com |accessdate=2008-07-21] . These sessions produced two new songs, one being a cover of 1978's The Skids "The Saints Are Coming" with Green Day and Window In The Skies. Both have been played live since and were also released on U218 Singles.

According to various sources, the majority of the Rubin sessions were later scrapped and Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois were employed as principal producers and Steve Lillywhite mixed a few of the songs.cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20080706/ai_n27903849|title=The best is yet to come|date=2008-07-06|publisher=Sunday Mirror|accessdate=2008-07-22] In a late 2006 on a radio interview with Jo Whiley Bono said "We're gonna continue to be a band, but maybe the rock will have to go; maybe the rock has to get a lot harder. But whatever it is, it's not gonna stay where it is." [cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0102/u2.html |title=Bono planning to reinvent U2 sound |publisher=RTE.ie |accessdate=2007-12-16] In a December 2007 interview, Bono said the new album will include trance influences and a "dancefloor shock," saying that "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." [cite web|url=http://mog.com/Charley_Rogulewski/blog_post/128853|title=Bono says new U2 album has "trance influences"|date=2007-12-05|publisher=Mog.com|accessdate=2008-02-21] " [cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2007/0102/u2.html |title=Bono planning to reinvent U2 sound |publisher=RTE.ie |accessdate=2007-12-16]

In a December 2006 interview with The Edge, he said the band were pursuing melodic songs. In December 2007, Bono then said the new album would include trance influences and "dance floor shock". Producer Daniel Lanois was later quoted by Le Journal de Montreal on June 28, 2008 as saying that the new album will push the limits of the sound arena much like "Achtung Baby" did in 1991. Steve Lillywhite, who came into the studio recently to help the band put the final touches on the final album told Irish DJ Tony Fenton on July 6 2008 that it would be U2's best ever work. Producer Daniel Lanois has said "I think we can safely say it's one of the great, innovative records from U2." [Daniel Lanois (2008), RTE Radio]

The Sunday Mirror on July 29 reported the new album title as "No Line On The Horizon" for release on November 18. The Mirror, however, took most of that information from fansites such as Interference and atu2.com. A Whois search, however, revealed that Universal Music has registered the domain name "nolineonthehorizon.com", leading many to believe it could be the first song or the album, or possibly both.

On August 18, a fan recorded four songs playing from Bono's beach house in Eze, France. These were subsequently uploaded to YouTube and Interference, but have been removed at the request of Universal Music from the former - the songs are still being shared through private messages and e-mails as well as other U2 fan-sites. More recently, Q Magazine revealed some more song titles which could possibly be finished versions or just working titles.cite web|url=http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=5081|title=In the Studio: U2|date=2008-08-01|publisher=Q Magazine|accessdate=2008-08-01]

Release date

Paul McGuinness at Midem 2008 said U2's next studio record after 2004's "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" should be released in October 2008. Daniel Lanois on June 4 told RTE Radio the album should be ready in 3-4 weeks and "We're just finishing the vocals. Bono's in great form, singing fantastic."atu2.com later revealed a potential release date of November 18, 2008, citing a "reliable" and as yet unknown source.

Various online and retail stores have already started advertising the new album as being called "No Line on the Horizon" such as Play.com and HMV.com. No track listing, pricing, release date or anything else has been announced by Principle Management, Universal, the band or those sites. U2.com posted an article on September 3, in which Bono reveals that the new album will be released "in early 2009", also noting that "around 50-60 songs" have been recorded in the sessions.

ee also

* U2 discography

References

External links

* [http://www.u2.com U2.com]
* [http://www.atu2.com atu2.com]
* [http://www.u2valencia.com u2valencia.com]
* [http://www.u2start.com U2start.com]