U2

The 12th studio album by Irish rock band U2, originally released in 2009. Between May 2007 and December 2008, U2 worked with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno not only as producers, but as collaborators and members of the songwriting team in studios in New York, London, Dublin, and in Morocco. In Morocco, the group developed songs with a variety of local musicians using traditional instruments. The recording studio was a courtyard in a Moroccan riad. Larry spoke about those sessions: “The work we did in Fez was the most joyous and liberating part of the whole album process. It was what I had always imagined being in U2 would be about: just playing music for the joy of it with no real end in sight. It was chaotic at times but even the chaos was creative.”