U2 and Carnaval De Luz

As they kick off promotion of their upcoming album, Carnaval De Luz, the four member of U2 were interviewed by Brian Hiatt for Rolling Stone.🎸Note: Andy Greene has usually covered U2 for Rolling Stone for the last decade. Maybe he was too busy to hang out in the south of France with the band this time? Which reminded me that Matt McGee and I got to interview Andy back in 2017 for the atU2 podcast.) As usual, there's plenty of Bono'isms about the new album in the interview, but also lots of interesting reflections on the last few albums. Some funny quotes I pulled:They apparently don't have a band text thread:When he felt ready, he texted his bandmates. (Oddly, there’s no full-band U2 group chat. “We haven’t done that yet,” Mullen says. “Definitely should get one of them.”)Bono on the band going back to dream it all up again... again:“More importantly,” the frontman adds at the table, piggybacking Bono-ishly onto his own line, “every time a band like U2 goes into the studio, you sort…