No Line On The Horizon  by U2

The story of U2's twelfth album, No Line On The Horizon from 2009, begins somewhere in 2006 when the Edge spent time with producer Rick Rubin in Los Angeles planning the new album and talking about its prospects. Ultimately, the band did not agree with the producer on the process of creating and recording the songs as the two parties had different approaches to the whole matter.

Eventually, U2 ended up collaborating in the production of the album with past associates Brian Eno, Daniel Louis, and this time also Steve Lillywhite. The recordings lasted from May 2007 to December 2008. The band's goal throughout the recording period was to create some songs that would withstand the test of time. Several months after the release of No Line On The Horizon, Bono expressed disappointment with the lack of mass audience response to their musical offering. The album, of course, has sold 5,000,000 copies worldwide so far.

The album cover, which doesn't have the band's name or the album title, is a photograph by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto and is a shot of Lake Constance on the German-Swiss border. The photograph served as a prompt and inspiration for Bono to write the title track of the album.