The globe-trotting members of U2 have finally returned to their home turf and are back in the studio, Billboard.com reports.
Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. are working on a new album in a Dublin, Ireland studio with longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. The band, Eno and Lanois met several times over the past year in France and Morocco, and have already produced a plethora of new material – maybe even enough for two albums, Lanois told Billboard.
U2’s last album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, was released in 2004, but the band has hardly disappeared from the public eye over the ensuing years. Bono has lent his perpetually shaded mug to theRed Campaign, a consumer-driven effort in which participating businesses donate a percentage of a product’s price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS.
The band has also been lighting up the silver screen. U2 first appeared as the subject of the Lanois-produced documentary Here is What it Is, which debuted last September at the Toronto Film Festival. And one of the band’s electrifying concerts has been filmed and converted to 3D for the aptly titled U2 3D, premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. (And no, you will not look as cool as Bono when you strap on those goofy 3D glasses.)
No release date has been set for the band’s new project, but Lanois told Billboard that the band was breaking new sonic ground and would deliver a masterpiece.
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