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U2 Explain New Album Cover

09/29/2014
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(Radio.com) When U2 made the now-infamous decision to release their latest album, Songs of Innocence, for free with no advance hype (and load it onto people's iPhones without their permission), they hadn't even created artwork for the album.

However, the physical release of the album, due out Oct. 14, will in fact have a conventional album cover (as opposed to the photograph of a white-label pressing of the album that has served as the digital album's ad-hoc artwork).

At first glance, the cover seems a bit homoerotic: it's a shirtless Larry Mullen Jr. hugging a shirtless younger male around the waist. However, as the band explains on their website, the photograph is the band's drummer "protecting his 18-year-old son."

The post explains further: "The idea of the unique relationship between a parent and child, the image of a father and son, came from the band. The shoot with Larry and his son was initially an experiment but everyone loved it as a visual metaphor for the record."

See the cover and read more here.

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