Rapture is a U2 fan’s essential experience.
Just one day until the release of U2′s newest album No Line on the Horizon. Of course I have pre-ordered my album on iTunes and I am hoping that the release happens some time tonight. Rumors are that this album is a departure from the last two U2 sounding albums, so I am excited to see what is new.
I have already become of fan after listening to the first song “Get on Your Boots” on the fourth listening.
This review got me (LA Times):
TweetThe band’s 12th studio album, it comes 30 years after those first face-slapping singles. It’s a pilgrimage — the religious metaphor is inevitable — along the path forged by U2 itself.
The title track starts things out and shows the road. One of seven not only produced but also co-written by Eno and fellow senior team member Danny Lanois, it’s built on a multilayered drone that recalls the peers of U2′s youth, especially Echo and the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, when psychedelia went post-punk.
The limitless sky doesn’t signal hope but the need for a map. Bono’s typically semi-surreal lyric evokes nonlinear time and the need for, and peril of, change. We are in a dream time.
Dream time is a mythical force that governs internal quests, not social movements or festive gatherings. Despite the playful exhortation of the first single, “Get on Your Boots,” “No Line on the Horizon” is mostly reflective. Lengthy songs grow up around lyrics that read like cinematic flashbacks and unspooled skeins of guitar and keyboard effects.
