{"id":633831,"date":"2026-09-23T21:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633831\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T21:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:02:16","slug":"u2-have-somehow-made-another-album-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633831\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 have, somehow, made another album \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U2 HAVE REVEALED the title of their upcoming album, their first full record of original material since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Dublin band\u2019s new album will be called Carnaval de Luz, which translates as Carnival of Light.<\/p>\n<p>Bono revealed the title during an appearance alongside bandmates The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr on The Irish Times podcast Drummer Seeks Musicians: The Making of U2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo am I allowed to say the name of the album or not?\u201d Bono asked towards the end of the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t say it. I\u2019m going to say it. The new album is called Carnaval de Luz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bono said the band had rediscovered something special while making the record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song, that recording and this album we\u2019ve made, we\u2019ve caught it again. And it\u2019s strong stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The album will be U2\u2019s first LP of original material since Songs of Experience was released in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The band are also due to release their latest single, Silencio, tomorrow, with further details about the album expected this week.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Silencio. New single out this Thursday 24\/9. Pre-save now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NER0o338Il\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/NER0o338Il<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UayqQ0nq36\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/UayqQ0nq36<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 U2 (@U2) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/U2\/status\/2102429717747941810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes during a significant week for U2, who will mark 50 years since their formation this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On 25 September 1976, the teenage musicians who would eventually become U2 gathered for their first rehearsal in drummer Larry Mullen Jnr\u2019s kitchen at 60 Rosemount Avenue in Artane, Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Mullen had put a notice on a bulletin board at Mount Temple Comprehensive seeking musicians to form a band.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on why the four musicians have remained together five decades later, Adam Clayton told the podcast: \u201cWe stayed in Ireland, we stayed close, we raised our families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like, why would we split up? Why would we? It\u2019s just much more interesting to get up each day and go around and see your mates and make music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bono said the possibility of finding \u201cthe perfect song or the perfect performance\u201d remained the band\u2019s \u201cdrug of choice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a full artist without Edge, Adam and Larry,\u201d he said. \u201cWe needed each other to be whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U2 HAVE REVEALED the title of their upcoming album, their first full record of original material since 2017.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2171,31203,19534,26016,269119,93,61,60,124128,660],"class_list":["post-633831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-album","tag-anniversary","tag-band","tag-bono","tag-carnaval-de-luz","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-times","tag-u2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}