Reviews Are In For U2′s New Album
February 27th, 2009
The reviews are in for U2′s new album ‘No Line On The Horizon’, with most giving the album glowing reports and five stars. Read some of the reviews and leave your thoughts after the jump.
USA Today‘s Elysa Gardner:
“With its 12th studio album, No Line on the Horizon, U2 continues to set the standard for sonic and emotional potency and daring. It lacks the immediate, relentless melodic punch of The Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby, but texturally,Horizon ranks with the group’s best, boldest work and grows more resonant with repeated listening.”
Rating: **** (out of four).
Telegraph‘s Andrew Perry:
No Line on the Horizon is a bold, beautiful and highly speculative re-imagining of U2′s music. Their 12th studio album is, like its immediate predecessors, less a record than an event, breathtaking in its ambition and its shimmering, mesmerising and sometimes outright volcanic sound.
Rating: Not rated.
Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke:
Produced by the now-standard trio of Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite, No Line on the Horizon is closer to the transitional risks — the Irish-gothic spell of 1984′s The Unforgettable Fire, the techno-rock jet lag of 1993′s Zooropa — but with a consistent persuasion in the guitar hooks, rhythms and vocal lines.
Rating: *****
Spin‘s Charles Aaron:
They created a sound, they shrewdly expanded and reinvented it, and they never became ghoulish, price-gouging buffoons like the Stones. But unlike 2000’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind (the follow-up to 1997’s electronica-tweaked misfire Pop), No Line on the Horizon isn’t content to reaffirm U2’s iconic sonic virtues. With coproducers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois explicitly included in the songwriting, it’s an effort to tinker and rough up and refine anew their music’s essence — with nobly sketchy results.
Rating: *** and a half (out of 5)
BBC‘s Chris Jones:
It seems that faith is what still drives these men: the faith in music to convey an important message and faith in the power of faith itself. But overall No Line On The Horizon proves that U2 really still have faith in themselves.
Rating: Not rated.
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