New album on the way, as U2 return with 'Street Of Dreams'

Two months after being spotted filming in Mexico City, U2 have returned today with a brand new single 'Street Of Dreams', alongside an accompanying music video. It's the first song to be taken from the band's yet-to-be announced new studio album – their first in nine years – due for release later this year.

The video was shot in Mexico City in May, where the band also attended the 2026 Street Child World Cup Finals Tournament at Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco.

The video shoot, near Plaza Santo Domingo drew a huge crowd of fans, despite inclement weather – with thunder and rain unexpectedly causing a generator to crash, and a local family to welcome the four band members into their apartment, to film on the balcony.

Produced by Jacknife Lee, ‘Street of Dreams’ comes just three months after the surprise-release of U2's Easter Lily, a six-track companion EP to February's Days Of Ash.

Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland in February, Hot Press editor Niall Stokes noted that, with Days Of Ash, there was "a very strong sense of U2 going back to their roots – their political roots – and their involvement in Greenpeace and Amnesty International back in the ‘80s, and re-engaging with the world in that very strong, direct political sense.

"With Edge’s signature guitar sound, Larry finding the groove on drums, Adam’s supple bass playing and Bono out front weaving a narrative spell, there is a really refreshing feeling that U2 have found a collective unity and sense of purpose here," he added.

This September will mark 50th anniversary of U2's formation – when Larry Mullen Jr famously posted a note (“Drummer seeks musicians to form band’’) on the school noticeboard at Dublin’s Mount Temple Comprehensive.

Formed in 1976 – though it was 1978 before they became U2 – the band have toured the globe countless times, released 15 studio albums, sold 175 million albums and won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys and Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience award. U2 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 and have twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song: in 2003 for ‘The Hands That Built America’ for Gangs of New York, and in 2014 for ‘Ordinary Love’ for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

U2’s fourteenth studio album Songs Of Experience – the companion release to 2014’s Songs Of Innocence - was released in December 2017 debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200, setting U2 apart as the only band in history to have topped the chart in four successive decades.

The 6-track EP Days Of Ash was released on Ash Wednesday, 18 February 2026. A self-contained collection of five new songs and a poem – ‘American Obituary’, ‘The Tears Of Things’, ‘Song Of The Future’, ‘Wildpeace’, ‘One Life At A Time’ and ‘Yours Eternally’ (ft. Ed Sheeran & Taras Topolia) – it came as an immediate response to current events and was inspired, the band said, "by the many extraordinary and courageous people fighting on the frontlines of freedom." A second, separate standalone 6-track EP titled Easter Lily was released on Good Friday. A more reflective set of songs, it came from what U2 have described as "a more personal, private place that some may retreat to in such times – exploring themes of friendship, loss, hope, and ultimately, renewal."

Watch the video for U2's 'Street Of Dreams' below: