Bono Wants U2 to Make a “Noisy, Uncompromising,

Unreasonable Guitar Album”

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Unreasonable Guitar Album” appeared rst on Consequence.

U2 have nearly nished the new album Songs of Ascent, but

according to Bono, “we’re not putting [it] out.” Instead, he told the New
York Times, he wants to “make our fuck-off rock ‘n’ roll album.”

Bono clari ed that when it came to Songs of Ascent, the band, “Didn’t

scrap it, just held it,” in favor of something with a little more oomph.
“Over [their last] two albums, Songs of Innocence and [Songs
of] Experience, our songwriting returned. Now we need to put the
repower of rock ’n’ roll back.”

He said, “I don’t know who is going to make our fuck-off rock ’n’ roll
album. You almost want an AC/DC, you want Mutt Lange,” the
famously exacting producer who worked with Def Leppard, AC/DC,
and helped launch the career of his former wife, Shania Twain. “The
approach,” Bono continued. “The discipline. The songwriting
discipline. That’s what we want.”

Bono said he needed a “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar

album,” to “put the part of me, the anger that hasn’t been managed, to
good use.” He added that while he is “trying to make peace with
myself and my maker, I have no intentions of making peace with the
world. That’s not on the agenda. I like to think I have the freedom to
be whatever I want. My anger at inequality became focused on a
community far away from home. You know, you have to pick your
ghts.”

Bono is set to release his new memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One

Story, out November 1st via Knopf. In the book, he expresses a “mea
culpa” for jamming Songs of Innocence on all those Apple products. In
December, the band will be celebrated at the 45th Kennedy Center
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Honors alongside George Clooney, Gladys Knight, and more, and in
2023 they’ll open Las Vegas’ MSG Sphere.

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