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Bono also invited Eno and Lanois, hoping they would collaborate with the band as full songwriting partners in recording an album of "futuristic spirituals" or "future hymns"-songs that would be played forever. Bono, who had accepted an invitation to the World Sacred Music Festival in Fez, Morocco, invited his bandmates to attend. U2 subsequently began working with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois in May 2007. I thought we had fun." Sessions with Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite įor two weeks from May–June 2007, U2, Eno, and Lanois wrote and recorded music in a Moroccan Riad similar to the one pictured. Rubin said: "I don't know what their perspective was. He was interested in getting it from embryonic stage to a song that could be mixed and put on a record." They ultimately decided to shelve the material recorded with Rubin, but expressed interest in revisiting it in the future. things that Rick was not in the slightest bit interested in. It's typical for us, because it's in the process of recording that we really do our writing." Bassist Adam Clayton said: "once we have a song, we're interested in the atmospherics and the tones and the overdubs and the different stuff you can do with it. The Edge said: "we sort of hadn't really finished the songs. This approach conflicted with U2's freeform recording style, by which they improvised material in the studio.

Rubin encouraged a "back to basics" approach and wanted the group to bring finished songs to the studio. But whatever it is, it's not gonna stay where it is." He said: "We're gonna continue to be a band, but maybe the rock will have to go maybe the rock has to get a lot harder. In January 2007, lead singer Bono said U2 intended to take their next album in a different musical direction from their previous few releases. Later that year, the band released two songs from these sessions on the compilation album U218 Singles: a cover of the Skids' " The Saints Are Coming" with Green Day, and " Window in the Skies". After U2 guitarist the Edge worked individually with Rubin in Los Angeles, the group spent two weeks in September 2006 completing songs with the producer at Abbey Road Studios in London.
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In 2006, U2 started work on the follow-up to How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), collaborating with producer Rick Rubin. Recording and production Aborted sessions with Rick Rubin

U2 began work on the album in 2006 with record producer Rick Rubin but shelved most of the material from those sessions. Photographer Anton Corbijn shot a companion film, Linear, which was released alongside the album and included with several special editions. The band originally intended to release the songs as two EPs, but later combined the material into a single record.

It was the band's first record since How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), marking the longest gap between studio albums of their career to that point. It was produced by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite, and was released on 27 February 2009. No Line on the Horizon is the twelfth studio album by Irish rock band U2. " I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight".
