Producer Gives Update On U2 Album | CJBK

By: Don Kaye

U2 has been working on its new album since late February at its recording complex in Dublin, Ireland, where the group has once again turned to longtime producer Daniel Lanois to sit behind the sound console. Lanois recently described how the sessions were going: “It’s going well. Very inventive, a lot of hopes and dreams in the room. (Singer) Bono’s a hell of a fighter, and as long as he’s got me in there, I’ll fight along with him, you know. It’s just quality, innovation, better songs, choruses that will communicate in a stadium setting…he wants it all. He wants great bass riffs. There’s still mystery in the room and they really want to do their best. They want it out for the fall as well.”

Lanois recently described the band’s new songs as “very hand-played but still very electro” to Sun Media, adding, “Everyone has an appetite for breaking new ground and everybody wants to make a masterpiece.”

Lanois has a long history with U2. He teamed with Brian Eno to produce the band’s 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire and 1987’s multiple-Grammy winner The Joshua Tree. Lanois was also behind the control board for 1991’s Achtung Baby and 2000’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind.

U2 frontman Bono recently raised $42 million for the fight against AIDS through his (RED) charity, which held an art auction last month in New York Thursday (February 14th) to raise money for the Global Fund of the United Nations Foundation, which works to fight AIDS in Africa.

U2 will also team with Paul McCartney, Queen, Keane, Eminem and others this summer for a concert in London’s Hyde Park celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday.

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