U2 album pushed back to early 2009

Bono says band has 50-60 new song contenders




NEW YORK -- Initially expected in the fall as a fourth-quarter blockbuster, U2's next record album has been pushed to early 2009 while the band continues to write and disk material.

"I thought a while back we power have the album cloaked by right away, but wherefore come up above ground now if there's more than priceless stuff to be found?" Bono writes on U2.com.

Of former, the group has been recording in the south of France, having already logged time in Fez and Dublin with longtime collaborators Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite.

'We know we have to emerge presently, but we also know that people don't need another U2 album unless it is our charles Herbert Best ever album," Bono aforesaid. "It has to be our virtually innovative, our most challenging ... or what's the point?"

Bono said the band today was "50 or 60" new songs to study for cellular inclusion on the follow-up to 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."

"The last two records were selfsame personal, with a kind of three piece at their spirit, the primary colors of rock -- bass, guitars and drum," he said. "But what we're about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from 'The Joshua Tree' to 'Achtung Baby.'"

Among the songs in the blend are "Get on Your Boots," "For Your Love," "Breathe," "No Line on the Horizon" and the eight-minute "Moment of Surrender." One source who has heard several of the works in progress describes them to Billboard as "amazing and a piffling out in that location. I hope they don't change anything."

"I'm always the one wHO underestimates how easy it is to simply 'put out the songs today.' If it was just up to me they'd be out already!" Bono aforementioned. "But early next year people volition be capable to protrude hearing what we've been doing. We want 2009 to be our year, so we're going to start making an impression very early on."