Producer Daniel Lanois has been speaking about working with U2 on their next studio album.

In an interview with Billboard magazine to publicise his documentary about his work, ‘Here Is What Is’, Lanois said of the new U2 material: “It feels like the ‘Achtung Baby’ period, when everybody was really hungry to do something fresh.”

Lanois, who for the first time is writing with U2 for the album, continued: “They have everything, and they’ve done everything. But the thing they should never assume they still own is the ability to be original and invent something that’s never been heard before.”

He concluded: “I’m not coming in with new flavours of the month or waving a magic wand. I don’t have an abbreviated name. But my eyes are burning a hole through their hearts, and I’m inviting them to come to where I come from.”

- RTE

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