It was announced earlier this week that Brian Joseph Burton aka Danger Mouse, is producing the new U2 album. The U2 project is in addition to the new Broken Bells music that surfaced recently. Broken Bells, the collaboration of Mr. Mouse and The Shin’s frontman James Mercer, are scheduled to release their sophomore album After The Disco on January 14.
It appears as if Danger has been working with U2 since 2010 on this project, and the finished product is due out in April 2014. The band is said to be procuring a corporate sponsor to unveil ads for the album during next February’s Super Bowl. Now that should insure the LP’s commercial success… The new album will be the follow-up to 2009’s No Line On The Horizon. The band’s latest song “Ordinary Love” will be released on Record Store Day Black Friday, and will also be included on the soundtrack to the movie Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom. Is the 360 tour still going on…
It’s probably only coincidence that the album release date and a big U.S. Festival happen in the same month. Probably only coincidence, but stranger things have happened.
Listen to Broken Bells “Holding On For Life” here:
Listen to a snippet of “Ordinary Love” in the movie trailer here:
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