U2 [ tickets ] manager Paul McGuinness, in an interview this week with BBC 6 Music, suggested that a new album from the band could be just around the corner.

McGuinness said that the exact release date for a new release was "not clear yet but I would think towards the end of October."

He added, "We will obviously work with whatever technology is available to make the release of the new record as interesting as possible."

(Listen to the interview here; interview is about 2:50 in.)

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