'Unusual ideas and influences...'

25 February 2009


The reviews of the new album are starting to arrive... pouring off the presses actually. Here's some of the early ones from the UK.

Click below to read the whole review.

Q - 'Just possibly their best'
'Simply, what all of this amounts to is the best U2 album since Achtung Baby. With time, it may prove to be better still.'
Part 1
Part 2

UNCUT - 'Unusual ideas and influences percolate...'
'White as Snow' tries to see Afghanistan from inside the helmet of a foreign soldier... It is both the most modest and most affecting track onthe record, and one of the best things Bono has ever sung.'
Part 1
Part 2

MOJO - 'If you like rock music, you have to deal with U2'
'On Magnificent the martial snare drums ratchet The Edge's vertiginous delayed guitar figures across a rock landscape that this band realised to near perfection circa The Unforgettable Fire and which they've now updated with no loss of awe.'
Part 1
Part 2
Get RSS News Feed
This article is tagged to:
Highlights, No Line On The Horizon, Reviews

Current News

17 November, 2009
'A song written to help stop his band from falling apart has become an unsentimental ode to unity - in this instance a bittersweet song for a bittersweet history.' Bono's latest column for the New York Times is a screenplay set in Berlin. Over several decades.
16 November, 2009
U2.com subscriber presales are underway this week for the band's shows next year in Montreal, East Lansing and, newly announced, Minneapolis.
16 November, 2009
From 'No Line' to 'Moment of Surrender', from 'The Unforgettable Fire' to 'Ultraviolet'. Great live video of ELEVEN tracks from the band's Rose Bowl show in LA last month.
12 November, 2009
It's been a highlight of the shows in 2009: this is Unknown Caller live from the Rose Bowl.
09 November, 2009
A second show has been announced for Anaheim, CA next June. Presales begin tomorrow, Nov. 10.