"Only love can leave such a mark!"-Bono
Oh. My. God. U2's latest album, No Line On The Horizon, is beyond-astonishing! This has to be atleast their third-best album out of the twelve studio albums that they've released in the past thirty years.
I swear, for a second there, it felt like I was listening to the band's stuff from the Joshua Tree/Achtung Baby era of the late 80's and early 90's. It's like they've gone back to basics and re-invented themselves once again.
Without a doubt, if 2007's best album was Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero, 2008's best album was Coldplay's Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends then U2's No Line On the Horizon is without a doubt the hands-down best album of 2009.
Everyone is on their A-game for this album: Larry Mullen's drumming is hauntingly reminescent and powerful as his drumming was on the war-anthem Sunday Bloody Sunday, Adam Clayton's bass-lines are rough and gallant as they were on Vertigo for How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, Edge continues to prove why he's the best guitarist in the world on songs like Get on Your Boots and on Fez: Being Born where his undertones and riffs continuously fade and re-emerge in higher pitches and distorted volumes, while lastly but certainly not least, Bono's lyrics are optimistic-yet-dark-yet-realistic.
It's hard to form words for how great this album is and it's also really impossible to pick a favorite song from this album's tracklist (unlike U2's other albums) because each and EVERY single song on the album is worthy of being a single in it's own right. There's an energy to this album which alot of their other albums were lacking at some point or another.
For all it's worth on this eleven-track album, U2 have proved to not only be the best band in the world but probably the best band ever (as I see them anyway). There's a darkness and realism to this album which were missing from the other albums.
It's still not exactly Achtung Baby or Joshua Tree but without a doubt, it's right behind those two.
This album is exactly the reason why they always were and always will be my favorite band.
It looks like U2 have done it again....
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