Here is the translation of an article from an Italian forum, sorry about the poor translation....
U2, the end of the mystery. Here comes the new CD: "It will be awkward music." (Di Paola Giordano)
Posted on July 8, 2013 by passengers
Here is a simple copy and paste the article published this morning by morning Paolo Giordano in the newspaper "Il Giornale".
The album will be released in the fall (but the title is not "Manhattan") The decisive challenge after rumors of the dissolution and poor inspiration
Paolo Giordano - Mon, 08/07/2013 - 08:56
So there we are: U2 share. Other than dissolution and retirement rock, as some had imagined / feared / hoped.
End of the yellow colored even more last year by phrases like these to Bono: "We do not care if the new disk it will take another decade or even if it would never arrive." As if to say: we are bogged down. But no. Sure, there will be three simultaneous projects of which Bono spoke three years ago, but nearly five years from No line on the horizon (nice but sold less than expected) comes the thirteenth disk that band that Bruce Springsteen will be 'l' last of which people will remember the name of all four components. " In short, U2 reloaded: new tour, new album. And 2014 as the test bed of the expected blockbuster tour. Meanwhile, the new songs are ready, ten at most eleven expected release in autumn and environments record covertly confirm.
The other day the blog of Canadian journalist Alan Cross reported even the lineup of songs, from Skyline North star (song performed in Turin in 2010) until the eleventh and unusually long Earth 2030, which lasts almost eight minutes. In addition it was also mentioned in the title of the entire disc, Manhattan, but it will not be the final one, just like the 10 Reasons to exist or the Song of Ascent circulated some time ago. So the car can share U2 as usual great. And last Monday, when Bono was down by a car with tinted windows for lunch at Baja Benjamin in Ventimiglia (squid stuffed with vegetable brunoise with creamed peas and Ligurian sea bream) had relaxed the face of those who are ready to leave for another adventure. Indeed, for one of the most delicate adventures of his career, however glittering without ifs and buts. U2 are on the ridge there is more dangerous: a megaband with a repertoire decisive commitment not to slip nell'autoreferenzialità exhaustion of creativity. Difficult challenge, especially in a time in which the myths of quickly consumed by spontaneous combustion and then survive the great future in bringing their gigantic past? Do you know the Rolling Stones the other night in Hyde Park have made the audience go crazy playing songs over forty?
Behold, the alternative model is this. Otherwise U2 U2 will be obliged to do. And this seems to be the will of four musicians who met in 1976 thanks to an ad in the board of Mount Temple Comprehensive School, then took over the world and have managed to not be won over by the individual egos. Each has embarked on individual projects leaving the collective life (Larry Mullen plays in a new movie after Man on the train, as usual activist Bono, recently appeared with Sugar in London in Agit8). In addition, you have thinned the more or less veiled accusations of tax evasion and opportunism of Bono indeed, say, "piacionismo": Always next to the powerful, always in the right place at the right time with the right words. Time to time. And often a supergroup who need a long time to find the starting blocks.
After the ballet producers called from time to time to follow the birth of the new songs (from Will.I.Am up to what should be the final one, ie Danger Mouse) confirms what Adam Clayton said a few months ago: "We have a bunch of stuff aside. But to make the best record possible, you need to stay away from things that you can easy. We are really trying to get into the territories of us extremely uncomfortable, if I may say so. " Hip hop influences? Jazz? Who knows. The style is that U2, then still recognizable. And, of course, with the boundaries expansible so that you can always look new even if sprouting from well over thirty years.