U2 have announced their first new album in nine years. Carnaval De Luz is due for release on November 13 vis Island, and it features the late Dolly Parton’s last-recorded vocal performance. That song, ‘Torn’, which closes out the record, isn’t out yet; the lead single is called ‘Silencio’, and it finds Bono briefly singing in Spanglish again. Check out its Cliqua-directed video below.
Earlier this year, U2 shared the EPs Days of Ash and Easter Lily, but their last album remains Songs of Experience. In a statement, Bono said: “Roll up, roll up, roll up! Bring your purple socks, your broken hearts, your rose-tinted naivety… oh be amazed in the hall of mirrors. There will be loud guitars, deep bass, some ecstatic rhythms and, yes, some silver tears will make an appearance! ‘Cause in the near distance just outside our carnival of light there are all kinds of creatures… the same imagination that brings us our creativity can also bring us monsters. So we make the drums louder. We build a bigger fire. We make our stories wilder and funnier. We make the melodies sweeter and the songs, they better shine, because if the world is in darkness we better not be.”
The Edge added: “It’s a messy, provocative, sacred collection of songs — and features the first-ever use of flat-wound strings on a U2 recording. Just saying.”
Carnaval De Luz Cover Artwork:
Carnaval De Luz Tracklist:
1. Go (Carnaval De Luz)
2. La Reina
3. Street of Dreams
4. The Mirror Maker (Rosalía)
5. Superficiality
6. If the World Is at War We Better Not Be
7. Silencio
8. The Greatest Show on Earth
9. Glorify
10. Midnight Sunshine
11. Can’t Stop Us Now
12. Torn [feat. Dolly Parton]
