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Last Modified: March 15, 2009, 1:33:10 P.M.

U2 New Album Info

On March 3, 2009, the new album of U2's No Line on the Horizon was released. A day later, the Rolling Stone reports another one is in the works for the end of this year to 2010. Now, if you have any sort of news clips about this new album, please put the information in the guestbook section.

ALBUM NAME: Bono told Rolling Stone the album will be called Songs Of Ascent
PRODUCER(s): unknown, but likely Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite since the songs are expected to be unused tracks from No Line On The Horizon
ALBUM RELEASE DATE: Depends what you read. In this Observer article and this NY Times article, it's said the next album will be out in 2009. But in the March 17 issue of Rolling Stone, they give 2010 as the date.
FORMATS: unknown
TRACKLIST: unknown

POSSIBLE SONGS MENTIONED

These are two types of songs listed below:

  1. songs mentioned in the buildup to U2's new album
  2. songs believed to be unused from previous albums

It's possible that some of these titles were changed and have already appeared under a different name. It's also possible that, as song titles changes, some of these may be referring to the same song.

  • "Tripoli" : unused from No Line On The Horizon
  • "Winter" : unused from No Line On The Horizon
  • "Every Breaking Wave" : Bono told Rolling Stone this is a "surging anthem" and would be the first single.
  • "If I Could Live My Life Again" : Bono says this song is "inspired by the great Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges." Bono said he had just begun the song while speaking with author Michka Assayas in December, 2005. Their interview appears as the extra material in the paperback version of Bono in Conversation with Michka Assayas.
  • "Love Is All We Have Left" : a song Bono named during his May, 2006, trip to Africa as one that he had recently written. "It’s like an old Broadway tune. I thought it was a Frank Sinatra song," Bono said.
  • "North Star" : a song from the How To Dismantle an Atomic Bombsessions which included a guest organ appearance from Michael W. Smith. In this CCM article, Smith describes the song as a tribute to Johnny Cash.
  • "Mercy" : one of the last songs to get cut from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, described in Blender magazine as "a six-and-a-half-minute outpouring of U2 at its most uninhibitedly U2-ish"
  • "Lead Me In The Way I Should Go" : a contender for Atomic Bombfirst mentioned in this February, 2003, interview with Bono in Grammy Magazine
  • "You Can't Give Away Your Heart"  : a contender for Atomic Bomb first mentioned in SPIN magazine

Latest News

LATEST NEWS

March 3, 2009: The March 17 issue of Rolling Stone quotes Bono saying the next album will be called Songs Of Ascent, and that it will be released in 2010.

BONO:


Songs Of Ascent will be quieter than No Line in many ways, it's that ghost album of hymns and Sufi singing. We're making a kind of heartbreaker, a meditative, reflexive piece of work, but not indulgent.
“  „

—Bono: On the "companion album" to No Line on the Horizon


February 28, 2009: A New York Times article says:

NYT Article:



U2 expects to release a companion album, which band members say will have a more meditative and processional tone, before the end of the year.
“  „

—New York Times article describing next album


February 15, 2009: This Observer article reports that U2 is planning to release another album before the end of 2009.


BONO:




a more meditative album on the theme of pilgrimage.
“  „

—Bono: On description of next album