U2 New Album To Arrive in 2016

U2 have offered up some new details on new album ‘Songs Of Experience’ in a new interview.

Speaking to Q in their latest issue, slippy-footed guitarist The Edge compared it to 1993’s ‘Zooropa’ as it is currently being completed during down-time in the middle of a tour, before claiming that the record’s producer Brian Eno “would love to see us making albums a bit more like that. Where we go, ‘You know what? We’re not going to second-guess any of this. Let’s just go for it.’ I think there’s a quality you get when there’s a certain momentum to the process.”

Bono mirrored that sentiment, stating that his recent bike accident actually helped the album’s progress. “The gift of it was that I had time to write while in the mentality that you get to at the end of an album,” he says. “There is a reason why all the great groups made their best albums while in and around touring, because the ideas have to come out of your head.”

‘Songs Of Experience’ is set to be a direct follow-up to 2014’s ‘Songs Of Innocence’, so named due to Bono’s obsession with 1789 William Blake poetry compilation Songs Of Innocence And Experience. It’s probably unlikely that ‘…Experience’ will arrive unannounced on your shiny new iPhone though. It’s expected this year.

U2's Next Release Scheduled For 2016

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New York: U2 fans will have to wait a bit longer for the next album however not as long as this last album. Bono announced that the "Songs of Experience" will be released in 2016.  Its the follow up to the 2014 release "Songs of Innocence" which all Itunes account holders got as a gift for free.

"Songs of Experience" is pretty much baked and ready however the band will invest the time in fine tuning the next release and 2016 will allow the band to tour with new music and change up the current set list with additional tunes.

Expect the U2 marketing machines to really come up with something different and most likely not a download.