While U2 is currently working on its new album titled "Songs Of Experience," which is scheduled to be released sometime in 2016, band members Bono and The Edge has offered some exciting details about the record.
In a recent interview with Q Magazine, Bono has revealed that the bike accident he suffered in New York in November 2014 has actually helped him in working on the "Songs of Innocence" follow-up.
"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," the front man said, reported Entertainment Weekly. "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."
In the same interview, U2 guitarist The Edge said that the recording process of the new studio album was comparable to working on their 1993 collection "Zooropa."
"(Zooropa producer Brian Eno) would love to see us making albums a bit more like that," the Edge said, reported DIY Mag. "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."
While U2 is yet to announce any official release date for the new album, a report from Gig Wise claimed that the band might release their album in the same manner as they released "Songs of Innocence" in iTunes.
"We haven't figured it out yet, but our intention would be to get it out sometime in the back end of next year," U2 guitarist The Edge told to The Belfast Telegraph. "I would not rule out doing something similar with the next record."
The new U2 album is expected to release sometime in late 2016.