Despite rumours that U2's new album would see the light of day in 2008, it's now been announced that the rock band have postponed the release until early next year.
The band are currently recording the album - rumoured to be called 'No Line On the Horizon' - in the south of France, but a message from Bono on their official website claimed that they have 'hit a rich songwriting vein, and [we] don't want to stop'.
"We know we have to emerge soon but we also know that people don't want another U2 album unless it is our best ever album. It has to be our most innovative, our most challenging.. or what's the point?," he said, before adding: ""I'm always the one who underestimates how easy it is to simply 'put out the songs now', if it was just up to me they'd be out already! But early next year people will be able to start hearing what we've been doing. We want 2009 to be our year, so we're going to start making an impression very early on."