U2 release new six-track EP Days Of Ash

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U2 will release a full length new album later this year.

U2 have returned with the politically charged six-track EP Days Of Ash, the band’s first collection of brand new music since 2017’s Songs Of Experience.

“It’s been a thrill having the four of us back together in the studio over the last year,” Bono has said.

“The songs on Days of Ash are very different in mood and theme to the ones we’re going to put on our album later in the year.”

These EP tracks couldn’t wait; these songs were impatient to be out in the world. They are songs of defiance and dismay, of lamentation. Songs of celebration will follow, we’re working on those now…because for all the awfulness we see normalized daily on our small screens, there’s nothing normal about these mad and maddening times and we need to stand up to them before we can go back to having faith in the future.

“And each other. ‘If you have a chance to hope it’s a duty…’ is a line we borrowed from Lea Ypi. A laugh would be nice too. Thank you.”