U2 Returns with Its First New Album in 9 Years
The 12-track album features collaborations with Dolly Parton and Rosalía and marks U2’s first all-new material in nearly a decade.
- On the 13th of November, U2 will release Carnaval de Luz, their fifteenth album and first in nearly a decade. The headline references a concert announcement, but provided source statements contain no tour dates or locations.
- After fifty years together, the band shifted from the protest themes of Days of Ash and Easter Lily EPs earlier this year toward seeking the 're-enchantment of the world.' The shift marks artistic reinvention.
- Produced by Jacknife Lee, Martin Garrix, Brian Eno, and Ryan Tedder, the album features standout tracks Glorify and Midnight Sunshine. Bono sings, 'If you want stop the devil getting bigger, stop repeating his name.'
- Dolly Parton makes her final ever recording on the closing track Torn, a moving duet singing about 'a house divided' and how 'brothers turn to strangers and sons deny their name.'
- With drummer Larry Mullen back behind his kit, the band prepares for a 'soon to be globetrotting carnival,' delivering their freshest and most immediate sound in an age.
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The new U2 album surprises with bold sound trips, awakens nostalgic memories of old trademarks and culminates in a touching duet with Country Queen Dolly Parton.
The 16th album of the Irish rock band is released on Friday. A return to the fundamentals for the band, which tended, on its latest records, to disperse.
Carnaval de Luz is an album that doesn't try to reinvent U2. The Irish foursome sticks to a slightly adventurous pop rock style that won't win them many new fans. Existing fans will experience moments reminiscent of what made them a phenomenon in the 80s, as well as a desire to look forward. There's no new revolution, but a good, full-fledged album has been created. Considering the previous ones, which were a bit embarrassing, this is a small ar…
Without reaching the peaks of the past, the Irish band regained its vivacity on its 16th album.
On the bulletin board at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin in 1976, Larry Mullen Jr. pinned a handwritten ad: drummer looking for musicians for a band. From this note began the story of U2, which continues half a century later with the sixteenth studio album of the Irish band – “Carnaval de Luz”. The album is released through Island Records and contains 12 songs. It is the first full-fledged recording of new compositions by U2 since “S…
(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Taesoo = The international band U2 from Ireland released their 16th album “Carnaval De Luz” (Carnaval De Luz, Light...
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