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U2 return to form with new album
U2 are back.
Four years after their last album, How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, the Irish supergroup return with No Line On The Horizon, which will be released on February 28.
Musically, they're back with their most experimental, exciting work in a decade.
The first single, Get On Your Boots, had a mixed reception when it was released last month. But now the first reviews of the album have started to trickle in from around the world, and they're glowing.
The News of the World called No Line On The Horizon a cracking return to form, while The Glasgow Sunday Mail said it was U2's most complete album, ranking it with their classics Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree.
On Monday, media in Sydney gathered to hear all 11 songs on No Line on the Horizon, after surrendering mobile phones and recording devices.
The album opens with the title track, a raw groove that echoes The Edge's guitar playing on The Fly.
Magnificent lives up to its name, and is sure to be an instant U2 anthem, as Bono sings: "I was born to sing for you, I didn't have a choice."
The singer calls Moment Of Surrender the best song the band has ever written, and at seven minutes long it's an epic. It's also one of a number of songs in which The Edge's guitar playing shines.
On Stand Up Comedy, U2 get their swagger on with some big Led Zepplin-esque riffs, and there's a little Middle Eastern flavour on a couple of the tracks.
The band's longtime producing team of Brian Eno and Danny Lanois are back on board and Eno's influence can be heard particularly on FEZ - Being Born.
It's their most adventurous moment, and it's impossible to get its measure on one listen.
U2 strip it back on the striking White As Snow, while Cedars Of Lebanon is a reflective closer told from the perspective of a war correspondent.
The same old U2 themes of love, forgiveness, joy and beauty are evident on their 12th studio record, but the sentiments are less obvious and cheesy than they have been on recent albums.
The band hasn't delivered a straight forward rock album, but the boys haven't forgotten what they're good at.
AAP
[www.thewest.com.au]
SalU2, Nelson.
U2 return to form with new album
U2 are back.
Four years after their last album, How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, the Irish supergroup return with No Line On The Horizon, which will be released on February 28.
Musically, they're back with their most experimental, exciting work in a decade.
The first single, Get On Your Boots, had a mixed reception when it was released last month. But now the first reviews of the album have started to trickle in from around the world, and they're glowing.
The News of the World called No Line On The Horizon a cracking return to form, while The Glasgow Sunday Mail said it was U2's most complete album, ranking it with their classics Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree.
On Monday, media in Sydney gathered to hear all 11 songs on No Line on the Horizon, after surrendering mobile phones and recording devices.
The album opens with the title track, a raw groove that echoes The Edge's guitar playing on The Fly.
Magnificent lives up to its name, and is sure to be an instant U2 anthem, as Bono sings: "I was born to sing for you, I didn't have a choice."
The singer calls Moment Of Surrender the best song the band has ever written, and at seven minutes long it's an epic. It's also one of a number of songs in which The Edge's guitar playing shines.
On Stand Up Comedy, U2 get their swagger on with some big Led Zepplin-esque riffs, and there's a little Middle Eastern flavour on a couple of the tracks.
The band's longtime producing team of Brian Eno and Danny Lanois are back on board and Eno's influence can be heard particularly on FEZ - Being Born.
It's their most adventurous moment, and it's impossible to get its measure on one listen.
U2 strip it back on the striking White As Snow, while Cedars Of Lebanon is a reflective closer told from the perspective of a war correspondent.
The same old U2 themes of love, forgiveness, joy and beauty are evident on their 12th studio record, but the sentiments are less obvious and cheesy than they have been on recent albums.
The band hasn't delivered a straight forward rock album, but the boys haven't forgotten what they're good at.
AAP
[www.thewest.com.au]
SalU2, Nelson.
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