U2-gitarist The edge heeft ine en interview met Rolling Stone gezegd, dat het volgende groepsalbum geen gewoon’ straight-up rok thing’ gaat worden. Wel zal de gtitaarsound er een belangrijk deel van uitmaken.
De vier hebben heel veel nieuwe materiaal, waarvan veel al stamt uit de coronaperiode. Toen had The Edge een erg vruchtbare periode:
‘We’re working on so many different things. During the whole Covid lockdown, I just went crazy into creating tracks and song ideas.
I guess we’re at that great honeymoon period of a lot of experimentation, and looking at all kinds of possible themes musically. I think the guitar will be a big part of the next record, but I don’t think it’s going to be a heavy rock album. I think it’s going to be a very different kind of use of the guitar, not a straight-up rock thing.
So we’re starting to go through some of those, and we’ve got an awful lot of material to wade through to see what it is. We’ve always tried to avoid using the instrument in a way that’s too mainstream and kind of normal. We’ve always tried to find ways to use the guitar that has never been heard before, and it seems that that’s an important part of what gets us excited.
It’s almost like we’ve got to find our way into the counterculture, and it’s bringing that o the masses rather than trying to find what’s happening, what’s fashionable, what’s going on. So the same is happening with us right now, and the songs will tell us the direction of the album. Music starts to come into focus. ‘
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