U2 have pushed back the release of their yet untitled upcoming album because they haven’t finished it yet.

Ont their official website, Bono writes “I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there’s more priceless stuff to be found? 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 adds “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.”