Seems like U2 are recording the follow up to OS1. I welcome this change of direction. It certainly sounds more interesting than the guitar album they were threatening to record.
Seems like they've gone back to the tried and true Brian Eno to try and get a hit record once again.
I strongly suspect when we finally get to hear their next album we'll wonder 'where the fuck is the Irish sci-fi folk music?'
I agree.
But one lives in hope that U2 can still make a record like OS1. Flawed, sure, boring in places, absolutely, but it was at least interesting and different, and gave us YBR and MS. THAT’S the U2 I love, not the version that gave us carpola like pride, beautiful day and boots, among many others.
Even so, you are probably right, it’s yet another hyperbolic sound bite from the guys that will amount to nothing.