U2 is hard at work on their next album, and while there's no finished product to share just yet, The Edge appeared on the band's SiriusXM channel. He said, “We don’t have anything finished yet, so it’s too early to start telling people what it is, but we’re making great progress."
He talked about the band's creative process, explaining that they have a wealth of material to choose from. "With so much material to choose from, we’re sort of choosing the best ideas, the best songs. And our problem is narrowing it down, so we’re playing around with kind of underlying themes that will help us I think. Once we got the sort of thematic spine of the lyrics and the ideas then we can sort of fit the songs into that overarching story. And we’re sort of at that phase where it’s time to really start going with the certain songs and putting those to one side."
The Edge emphasized the importance of recording together, saying, "Sometimes it’s a four piece, sometimes a three piece. We want the recordings to have the band sound, the band chemistry in it, so that’s kind of a focus as well, which is great. I mean, when we play together it just sounds like us. There's a certain U2 thing that happens.” Their last album of original songs was 2017's Songs of Experience, followed by 2023's Songs of Surrender, a collection of re-recordings of 40 of their songs.
[Source: Classic Hits Today]