Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins says new U2 album sounds like a 'fart'

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has given his thoughts on the new U2 album release.

The Irish group surprised people across the world earlier this year when they gave new record 'Songs of Innocence' to iTunes customers for free.

This provoked debate and criticism online, but it seems Hawkins isn't a fan of the music either. He told theMusic.com.au:

"What happened to U2, man? I don't think people are that hyped on them. I don't know that any of that new album has anything great on it. I listened to it once, but it's so marred by that whole sort of, like I said, Orwellian, 1984 extreme that it just kinda sounds like a fart any way you listen to it."

Hawkins said earlier in the interview of the release method:

"I mean, I think they probably thought it was gonna be a great idea, 'Here's the deal: everybody who has an iPhone, gets your record. And they get it for free!'

"And they thought, probably, 'Well that's pretty awesome!' but they didn't really take into consideration the Big Brother feeling that kinda goes along with like, '[In menacing voice] You have the new U2 record'... You couldn't get rid of it and they actually had to come up with an app to get rid of it, that's horrible."

Watch U2's latest music video below: