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U2 - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - 2004
The more I played this album the more I felt like turning the volume up, up, UP. This is a crunchy album. It rocks and pounds and you know the reason?
The Edge.
The fucking Edge.
The guy they dialed back wayyyyyyy back in the 80s. He's front and center and shredding and chopping and crunching and ripping the sonic landscape to shreds. It's really all everyone else can do to keep up. I mean, a U2 album with some songs UNDER 4 minutes?? That's just crazy talk.
Bono is a little hoarse. He should be, shouting and yelping for 25 years. Welcome to your forties, dude.
If "All that You...." was a gentle reminder of a supergroup that lost it's way, they have definitely found it here.
We could go song by song, but that isn't the point. It's to take the album as a whole, if I can and it just swells and grows like a monster.
So, how do you reinvent yourselves if you are U2? Crank UP the guitars and give the world what you haven't in almost a decade and a half: A true, epic rock album. Nice
Grade B+
A Side: Vertigo & City of Blinding Lights
Blindside: Peace on Earth & All Because of You
DownSide: You know what? Let's give them a break. Nothing really falls flat and, hell, they're old. Give em a break.
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