OK, I maybe a little late to the party on this, but U2 released the first track off of their new album, “No Line on the Horizon” last week. Here’s a YouTube sample of “Get On Your Boots”. The song can be downloaded from iTunes now.
U2’s next Album entitled, “No Line on the Horizon” is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Be sure to order it now (while you’re thinking about it)… ships March 3rd.
Here’s a review that I’m not sure I understand…
“Neil McCormick shares some of his thoughts after hearing U2’s new album:
It took two listens to find my way into it, which has to be good a thing. It is dense, twisty, shiny, modern pop music, a big mash up of Eno ambience, Edge electricity, rhythm and soul. There are verses and choruses, though not necessarily in that order (and quite often its hard to tell which is which). It doesn’t feel the need to hit you over the head, but has the Ninja confidence to sneak up and take you unawares. It makes love like its making war. It hasn’t frontloaded all its big guns. There is a surge in the middle perfectly timed to quell any uprising, and a killer twist at the end. It could be the glittering sonic mind meld of pop rock and soul that Zooropa wanted to be. Or maybe, like Bono, I’m am just prone to exaggeration.”
Straight from Wikipedia:
No Line on the Horizon is the upcoming twelfth studio album by Irish rock band U2, is set to be released on February 27, 2009 in the Republic of Ireland, March 2, 2009 in the rest of Europe and a day later in the U.S.[1][2] The album will be U2’s first since 2004’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, the longest time between studio albums in the band’s career. U2 originally began work on a new studio album in 2006 with Rick Rubin, although material from those sessions will not be a part of No Line on the Horizon. The band has collaborated with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois from 2007-2008 for the album, allowing them to be involved in the songwriting process. The album was originally planned for release in November 2008, but the band had written approximately 50-60 songs and wished to exhaust their creative ideas before finalizing the album’s plans.
I can’t wait…