No Line On The Horizon

(2009)

This is a record indicative of the over-gesticulating sessions that can typify modern U2; and they can’t decide what they want to be here. So Get On

Your Boots and Stand Up Comedy feel like 70s riff-rock throwbacks cooked up in the jam room, set uneasily against the far more interesting studio Enoisms of FEZ/Being Born and off-kilter Bowie-futurism of Unknown

Caller – with a rare and affecting traditional guitar solo. But the mix doesn’t hold; Breathe and I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight are self-conscious anthem attempts from a band poorly impersonating themselves. Download: Unknown Caller