Irish rock legends U2 have released their second surprise EP of 2026, with the six-track Easter Lily coming just over 40 days after Days of Ash.
After a quiet period for the band, as drummer Larry Mullen Jr recovered from neck surgery, the two EPs follow confirmation last year that a new studio album is being recorded.
Described by singer Bono as a “noisy, messy, unreasonably colourful” record, it is expected later this year.
He has described Easter Lily as coming from “a more intimate place” with songs “about friendship, faith, endurance and renewal”.
This year’s EPs are U2’s first collections of newly written material since 2017.
The EP comes along with a digital e-zine edition of U2’s fanzine Propaganda.
In the e-zine the band’s guitarist The Edge, said if Days of Ash was about “a world in trauma”, then Easter Lily is about where the band goes for “strength to walk through this world”.
