Songs Of Ascent

I've been meaning to post this for a couple days...

This piece from exclaim.ca talks a little about the next U2 album, expected perhaps in the fall. It also gets covered in this Rolling Stone article as well.

Bono already knows the title — Songs of Ascent — and the first single, a surging anthem called “Every Breaking Wave” that was left off No Line at the last minute. Songs of Ascent will be quieter than No Line; in many ways, it’s that ghost album of hymns and Sufi singing. “We’re making a kind of heartbreaker, a meditative, reflective piece of work, but not indulgent,” Bono says. “It will all have a clear mood, like Kind of Blue. Or A Love Supreme would be a point of reference, for the space it occupies in people’s lives, which is to say, with that album, I almost take my shoes off to listen to it.”

Time to switch to the slip-ons. It just keeps getting better and better.