U2 announces new album ‘No Line on the Horizon’

Mark your calendars! U2.com reports that ‘No Line on the Horizon’, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Monday 2nd March, 2009.

They write:

Written and recorded in various locations, No Line On The Horizon is the group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since the 9 million selling album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released in late 2004.

Sessions for No Line On The Horizon began last year in Fez, Morocco, continued in the band’s own studio in Dublin, before moving to New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and finally being completed at Olympic Studios in London.

The album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite.

Billboard runs the story and has a quote from a ‘source’ who heard songs in their early forms: “…amazing and a little out there. I hope they don’t change anything.” (Read more.)

24 thoughts on “U2 announces new album ‘No Line on the Horizon’”

  5. Finally. Just curious when the tour is going to start. Last time they released an album early in the year was Pop (March 1997), they kicked off PopMart at the end of April. That just sounds unlikely this time for me. Have the feeling they’ll hit USA stadiums in June/July and head straight to Europe then. Or?

  6. Finally. Just curious when the tour is going to start. Last time they released an album early in the year was Pop (March 1997), they kicked off PopMart at the end of April. That just sounds unlikely this time for me. Have the feeling they’ll hit USA stadiums in June/July and head straight to Europe then. Or?

  7. Hallelujah! Nice to hear the album is more adventurous as well. I love ATYCLB, but HTDAAB is an odd one. I like most of the songs on their own (Vertigo, COBL), but when I listen to the whole album, it just leaves me feeling underwhelmed. I think Bono once said the same thing? But HTDAAB was a necessary album imo — they had to be a little predictable again, nuts and bolts rock and roll, in order to go wild on the next album. It seems to be how U2 works. During ZooTV, Bono said that he likes the mischief, but prefers the mystery when it comes to women, and that’s how rock ‘n’ roll should be. That’s how I feel about U2, that is when they’re at their best — the right balance of mischief and mystery.

  8. Hallelujah! Nice to hear the album is more adventurous as well. I love ATYCLB, but HTDAAB is an odd one. I like most of the songs on their own (Vertigo, COBL), but when I listen to the whole album, it just leaves me feeling underwhelmed. I think Bono once said the same thing? But HTDAAB was a necessary album imo — they had to be a little predictable again, nuts and bolts rock and roll, in order to go wild on the next album. It seems to be how U2 works. During ZooTV, Bono said that he likes the mischief, but prefers the mystery when it comes to women, and that’s how rock ‘n’ roll should be. That’s how I feel about U2, that is when they’re at their best — the right balance of mischief and mystery.

  9. U2 tour dates 2009:

    1st of July – Dublin, 4th of july London, 6., 7. of July Brusseles 9., 10. and 11. of July Rotterdam, 16., 17. and 18. of July Paris, 21st of July Berlin, 23rd of July Gelsenkirchen (Germany), 27. and 28. of July Barcelona, 31st of July and 3rd of Augus Milano, 4. and 5. of August Zurich, 7. and 8. of August Wien, 10. of August Prague, 20. and 21st of August Stockholm, 24. i 25. of August Oslo, 26. i 27. of August Chorzow(Poland)

    source;

    http://www.tportal.hr/showtime/glazba/3485/U2-pocetkom-srpnja-svira-u-Becu.html

  10. U2 tour dates 2009:

    1st of July – Dublin, 4th of july London, 6., 7. of July Brusseles 9., 10. and 11. of July Rotterdam, 16., 17. and 18. of July Paris, 21st of July Berlin, 23rd of July Gelsenkirchen (Germany), 27. and 28. of July Barcelona, 31st of July and 3rd of Augus Milano, 4. and 5. of August Zurich, 7. and 8. of August Wien, 10. of August Prague, 20. and 21st of August Stockholm, 24. i 25. of August Oslo, 26. i 27. of August Chorzow(Poland)

    source;

    http://www.tportal.hr/showtime/glazba/3485/U2-pocetkom-srpnja-svira-u-Becu.html

  11. Um, I wouldn’t put any stock in those dates nikola, when the UK and Ireland are pretty much the only countries on that list with single dates (particularly the UK) for a U2 tour, you know it is false… Hurrah for the new album! U2.com is promising new video “in a few days”, single maybe?

  12. Um, I wouldn’t put any stock in those dates nikola, when the UK and Ireland are pretty much the only countries on that list with single dates (particularly the UK) for a U2 tour, you know it is false… Hurrah for the new album! U2.com is promising new video “in a few days”, single maybe?

  13. I saw that too-
    i’m hoping it’s a single…could it be!!!???
    my guess is that it’s another, ‘day in the life’ type piece…which are getting a bit tired-
    that said i loved the new larry in his dome vid!
    awesome stuff….ANXIOUSLY will wait-

  14. I saw that too-
    i’m hoping it’s a single…could it be!!!???
    my guess is that it’s another, ‘day in the life’ type piece…which are getting a bit tired-
    that said i loved the new larry in his dome vid!
    awesome stuff….ANXIOUSLY will wait-

  15. i wonder if the beat Larry had going in that clip will be part of the single…
    watch the clip if you haven’t already done so…
    it certainly has an ‘anthem’ build to it!!

  16. i wonder if the beat Larry had going in that clip will be part of the single…
    watch the clip if you haven’t already done so…
    it certainly has an ‘anthem’ build to it!!

  19. maybe there will be a leak of a 54 second clip for Wake Up Dead Man & Discotheque which i will spend the next month listening to over and over again…oh wait i thought this was Christmas of 1996…

  20. maybe there will be a leak of a 54 second clip for Wake Up Dead Man & Discotheque which i will spend the next month listening to over and over again…oh wait i thought this was Christmas of 1996…

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