NLOTH - advanced release in Japan

[cdirani]

As I always do, I checked today HMV.jp and they had this tidbts on the album's release that comes out earlier for the lucky Japanese fans.
No tracklisting as yet, but a nice heads-up
I hope it hasn't been posted yet...if it has, I apologise.

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U2 Have Completed First New Album in 4 1/2 Years!!

About 4 1/2 years on from the big hit album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" released in 2004 and sold over 9million copies worldwide, U2 have now completed their 12th studio-recording album!

For the new album recording the band initially were working with Rick Rubin as a producer, but all the tracks at the producers hand have been set aside and instead they newly hired Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois to get involved in the works, with help from Steve Lillywhite.

The recording started off in Fez, Morocco last year, continued at the band's own studio in Dublin, then at Platinum Sound Recording Studio in NYC, and ended at the Olympic Studio in London.
A brand new track off the new album is expected to be available for streaming in January. According to Bono the single:

"Boasts a totally different type of sound to our past songs, or to anything that you get to hear anywhere in the world right now."


This may be already the advent of the album of the year 2009, maybe?!

Advance Release in Japan - February 25th

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[BoyOnTheHorizon]

 

[purpleoscar]

I wonder if the mix will different in Japan vs. the U.S.

 

[cdirani]

I wonder if the mix will different in Japan vs. the U.S.

Don't think so, but Japan market always get some extra stuff...

 

[adypole]

What the hell did Japan do to deserve such a privelage!!!???

hehe

 

[purpleoscar]

I'm talking about the sound mix. Sometimes the mix is a little different.

 

[cdirani]

I'm talking about the sound mix. Sometimes the mix is a little different.

I see...the mastering...yep, most Japanese CDs get better ones. Amazing!

 

[cdirani]

What the hell did Japan do to deserve such a privelage!!!???

hehe

I've heard it's due the costy CDs and all.

 

[pgv]

Wha- they're releasing NLOTH a week earlier in Japan than everywhere else?! Am I mistaken?

Do Japanese CD's play on Western players?

 

[mikal]

41 days folks (if it doesn't leak earlier than that).

 

[adypole]

I've heard it's due the costy CDs and all.

Aaah, in that case, I can see the point.

 

[purpleoscar]

Wha- they're releasing NLOTH a week earlier in Japan than everywhere else?! Am I mistaken?

Do Japanese CD's play on Western players?

Yeah I think CD's are different than DVDs in that you can import them. They should play.

 

[pgv]

Yeah I think CD's are different than DVDs in that you can import them. They should play.

Rock on HMV Japan then!!

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Wha- they're releasing NLOTH a week earlier in Japan than everywhere else?! Am I mistaken?

Do Japanese CD's play on Western players?

Japanese Mp3s do...

I'm assuming if this is true, this is some sort of plan to combat piracy - not sure how good a job it will do for the rest of the world though...

 

[Swan269]

i thought bootlegging was much more of a problem in asia so maybe they are trying to beat the rush of that?

 

[pgv]

Japanese Mp3s do...

I'm assuming if this is true, this is some sort of plan to combat piracy - not sure how good a job it will do for the rest of the world though...

Isn't this basically like leaking the CD to Western radio's etc? They'll all be playing the album before it's even out over here. And given how much people moan about leaks, seems a bit weird.

 

[gujuju]

Feb 25 means Feb 24th in the US - so thats probably the latest possible leak date.

 

[Tyagu_Anaykus]

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

you can expect the album to leak at least a week before it's release... so if it's being release in japan in late february, we'll have it by mid february.

frankly, just give me a single.

 

[cdirani]

Wha- they're releasing NLOTH a week earlier in Japan than everywhere else?! Am I mistaken?

Do Japanese CD's play on Western players?

Certainly, they do. I've got several albums made in Japan.

 

[cdirani]

Feb 25 means Feb 24th in the US - so thats probably the latest possible leak date.

Yes...and in Ireland they'll get the album by the 27th.

 

[purpleoscar]

Blu-spec CD is not a new audio format says Sony, it's just CD made to sound much better | Home Cinema Choice

The Japanese are always trying to improve quality.

 

[Screwtape2]

How much are flights to Japan in late February?

 

[purpleoscar]

News from 2L .:. May 2008

To me this is the ultimate direction I want music to go. DTS-HD Master audio.

 

[cdirani]

How much are flights to Japan in late February?

grab one to me, please!

 

[last unicorn]

Damn, and I thought we Europeans would be the first to hear it.

Any people from Japan here?

 

[Irishteen]

Isn't this basically like leaking the CD to Western radio's etc? They'll all be playing the album before it's even out over here. And given how much people moan about leaks, seems a bit weird.

Well it comes out in Ireland and some other euro countries two days after that

Albums are just released on different days around the world

 

[Varitek]

sweeeet so if it hasn't leaked before then we'll get a torrent that day

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

if they really are releasing the CD in japan early then i'm going to guess that they'll have a download only release prior to the release of the actuall CD elsewhere in the world... through iTunes and such.

 

[digitize]

Yeah I think CD's are different than DVDs in that you can import them. They should play.

Yeah. My copy of the WITS single is a Japanese import.