U2's Adam Clayton on the upcoming album, 'The Blackout', and 'The Joshua Tree'

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8 Sep 2017, 13:20

U2 legend Adam Clayton said he and his bandmates wanted to disrupt the contemporary music scene with their upcoming album. 

The band have a new album, , coming out, and have already released a video for one of the songs off it, . 

They have announced the first single from the record is , and it's available now.

In an interview with Jon Holmes, Clayton spoke about the upcoming album and 

He told Jon: "It's one of those hybrid clubby-rock songs and I think a lot of people have looked at it at this stage to get excited about the record it comes from. 

"I think the lyrics have a personal twist in terms of the politics of the moment in America, but it's a tune to have a good night to.

"We wanted with to put tunes out there in different ways with

He told Jon how much of a "pleasure" it was to return to period, saying there was a "raw honesty with extraordinary power" to it.

Jon told him how he also deliberately went to Joshua Tree National Park when he was in America as a student, playing the songs off the album all the way there.

Listen above.