U2 Drops Surprise ‘Easter Lily’ EP

U2 Share ‘Easter Lily’ EP

As U2 continue to work on a new studio album, they have dropped a new EP. Easter Lily is a new standalone 6-track collection and follows last month’s Days of Ash EP, released on Ash Wednesday. The songs on Easter Lily explore themes of friendship, loss, hope, and renewal. Among them are the devotional “Easter Parade” and pilgrimage tale “Resurrection Song.” “Song for Hal” is a COVID-19 lockdown lament, with The Edge on lead vocals, written for t…

U2 released more new songs that won’t fit on the upcoming album

Music|The songs published around Easter also reflect on religiosity. U2’s The Edge (left), Bono and Adam Clayton perform in November 2023 in Las Vegas. Picture: Amiee Stubbs / Imagespace Irish band U2 released new music over the Easter weekend. Easter Lily The ep release has six songs, and it was released only six weeks before […]

The Magical Renaissance of U2: A Reflection on ‘Days of Ash’ and ‘Easter Lily’

U2’s profoundly urgent ‘Days of Ash’ and ‘Easter Lily’ EPs offer a powerful way to reflect on our exterior and interior worlds – from defiance to introspection – heralding an artistic renaissance for the band amidst their self-proclaimed “wilderness years.”

U2 drops surprise ‘Easter Lily’ EP

U2 has quietly released another surprise project, dropping their six-track EP Easter Lily on April 3 – to coincide with Good Friday. The new project follows closely behind the release of Days Of Ash, a surprise EP the band shared on Ash Wednesday. While Days Of Ash leaned into global tensions, Easter Lily shifts focus to more intimate territory—exploring friendship, faith, loss, and renewal. In a message to listeners. The project opens with “Son…

New U2 EP:Easter Lily

U2 continues with their EP releases with Easter Lily. This new group of songs includes Song For Hal, In A Life, Scars, Resurrection Song, and Coexist (I Will Bless The Lord At All Times?). Further reading is available at the e-zine. A note from Bono. "We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, 'unreasonably colourful' album to play LIVE...... which is where U2 lives. We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance ag…