U2 frontman Bono has said the band's next studio album will be entitled 'Songs of Ascent'.

The album, due for release in 2010, will be preceded by the single 'Every Breaking Wave'.

The track was a last minute omission from the band's latest album 'No Line On The Horizon', which was released this week.

“We’re making a kind of heartbreaker, a meditative, reflective piece of work, but not indulgent,” Bono told Rolling Stone about 'Songs Of Ascent'.

“It will all have a clear mood, like 'Kind of Blue'. Or 'A Love Supreme' would be a point of reference, for the space it occupies in people’s lives, which is to say, with that album, I almost take my shoes off to listen to it.”

U2 have yet to announce tour dates in support of 'No Line On The Horizon', although Bono said last week that they planned to return to the road in “early summer”.

The Irish group are currently in the middle of a five-night residency on The Late Show with David Letterman in New York.

U2 joined the city's Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday as 53rd street was renamed U2 Way in their honour.

(by Jason Gregory)