U2’s The Edge Announces That Their New Album Should Be Released In 2016

The Edge has announced that U2 is still working on their follow up to 2014’s Songs of Innocence.

When U2 released Songs of Innocence in 2014 they mentioned companion album that will be released as well. The companion album it titled Songs of Experience and according to U2 guitarist The Edge it is on track for its release sometime this year. It has obviously taken a little while, a couple years to be exact, but the band is still working on the record and wants fans to know it. As reported by Stereogum, in an interview with Q magazine the band has been working on the new album during their down time between legs of their Innocence + Experience Tour.

The bike accident that Bono suffered has been credited by him for the albums speedy progress. According to Stereogum he said, “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. 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.”

The Edge went on to compare the process of the new record to the process behind U2’s 1993 release, Zooropa. He went on to claim that Zooropa’s producer, Brian Eno, would love to see them making like that. The Edge had this to say about the new album’s process, “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.”