U2 frontman Bono says that the band’s new album, rumored to be coming out in the Spring, will be a marked departure from the band’s last release, No Line on the Horizon. The singer toldBillboard.com that the album, which features production work from Danger Mouse, will be more streamlined.
“We were trying to write an album with No Line on the Horizon that had a kind of narrative and if I look back on it now, it’s probably too long. Maybe just by one song or two,” Bono said. “It’s incredible that people think, ‘Oh gosh, I can put 17 songs on this’ … it’s like more corn flakes in a better box.”
In the meantime, the band are continuing to criss-cross the world on their 360° Tour. Bassist Adam Clayton shrugged off the idea that touring was becoming more important to U2 than creating new music.
“There’s a mythology within music is that you have to be young to create it,” Clayton said. “As musicians, I think we’re getting better. As a band we are getting better. We’re better at editing ourselves and performing so we’re in a much better place than we were when we made those early records.”
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