U2 Fans: Just Accept That the New Album Will Be Out Next Year

Bass player Adam Clayton popped into 98FM in Ireland to speak about World Mental Heath Day when the conversation inevitably turned to the new U2 album.  I quote from a transcription provided by AtU2:

“We are still at it. We hope to have it finished very, very soon. And it will be out, oh … sometime early next year. But it’s a very exciting bunch of songs right at the moment. But it’s just about to be finished, so it’s hard to know which way they’ll go.

“I think it’s a bit of a return to U2 of old, but with the maturity, if you like, of the U2 of the last 10 years. It’s a combination of those two things and it’s a really interesting hybrid.”

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“We’re in the studio. We’re trying to get these 12 songs absolutely right and get them finished by the end of November, and then we can kind of enjoy Christmas.”

That settles it, then. More at AtU2, including a link to the actual radio interview.