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| | Title | No Line On The Horizon | TRACKLIST | | Label | Interscope | 1. No Line on the Horizon
2. Magnificient
3. Moment Of Surrender
4. Unknown Caller
5. I'll go Crazy if The Don'ts go Crazy Tonight
6.Get On Your Boots
7. Stand up Comedy
8. Fez - Being Born
9. White as Snow
10.Breathe
11.Cedars Of Lebanon
The Biography
| | Year | 2009 | | Kind | Rock | | Recorded | Fez, Morocco, band's Dublin I study, New York's Platinum Sound Recording Studios and London's Olympic Studios
| | Authors | Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois
| | Production | Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite
| | Evaluation | xxxx/ | |
 | | 1 | Allison Crowe - Midnight | | 2 | Josh Woodward - Go | | 3 | C. S. Daggers - Changing my mind | | 4 | S.Crossing - Don't Get Me Started | | 5 | First - On the road |
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|  | THE U2S TORNANO WITH AN ALBUM WORTHY OF THE ROCKBAND PIÙ' BELOVED OF THE PLANET
The Critique. Any band to the world is able of to attract on itself the attention as they succeed in making the U2s when they publish an album. From the first moment in which you/they are in a study of recording news they circulate, voices, deny, that produce a series of hypothesis in some cases truthful in others less. About this job was known that in the box of regal you/they had returned bossy Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, two sacred monsters that the U2s have ferried toward the greatest successes of their career. And a lot of curiosity had aroused the choice to record part of the album to Fez, in Morocco.
Departing from these premises was clear that the Irishmen wanted to put in the foreground the music to realize an album that would have brought him to the Fasti of the years '80, without however to skip the experimentation, essential component to propose him in a new dress. "No Line On the Horizon" it is not an easy album, difficult to appreciate to the first listening, but that in the long run he/she succeeds in emitting his/her heat and his/her power, returning us that epic that so much we had loved in the U2s and that in the last years you/he/she had never emerged with so much strength.
The juice of the job comes from the four initial traces, where the songs that leave the sign and they brand to fire the album are. The first passage, the title-track, returns us a group in full form: guitars sharp style "Achtung Baby", Bono that sings on a very tall register and it seems had been going out for the years '80, everything seasoned by the punctual rhythmic section and by the perfect sonorous carpet realized by Eno and Lanois. Any line to the horizon recites the refrain in which he remains captured by a feeling of endless, the same one that winds us looking at the splendid cover realized by Hiroshi Sugimoto where sea and sky melt him an alone thing becoming.
In the bright one "Magnificent" (never title was more appropriate), one of the most precious gems of the album, all damage the maximum one while Bono gives very meaningful verses from the poetic aftertaste "Only Leave Khan leave such to mark" (Only the love can leave a similar sign). "Moment Of Surreder", the longest song of the album, stirs on the cloth worked by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen that they build a magnetic loop where it is inserted Bono that draws tall trajectories giving a touching gospel. Following there is the ambitious one "Unknown Caller", that ideally closes the first part of the album, made scheming by the refrain sung in couple by the duo Bono. The Edge and dall' imposing solo of one minute and a half that this last gives at the end of the passage. After the first twenty-three minutes of music he passes so to the central part, the most accessible of the album, constituted by the trittico "I'll go crazy if The don'ts crazy tonight", "Get On Your boots" and "Stand Up Comedy." The first one is a discreet pop song, that pleasantly flows in the strophe except then to slip in a refrain some too much easy even if less stucchevole in comparison to passages that had found space in "All that you can't leave behind." The rock of "Get On Your Boots" part really from where it ended that of "Vertigo", even if the single bulldozer seems to have a march in more thanks to a refrain less discounted and really for this most interesting. In "Stand Up Comedy" the U2s try to speak the language of the Led Zeppelin thanks to a riff that seems to originate from the guitar of the eclectic Jimmy Page showing not to have lost in the years his/her own attitude toward the rock. He immediately turns later page with "Fez - Being Born", that after one minute of experimentations style "Zooropa" it begins with his/her instrumental carpet supported by the valuable job of Mullen on the drums, able to wind with atmospheres destined to give live even more emotions involving. The ballad folk "White as snow" right-hand reaches the heart, thanks to its delicacy and the intensity of the performance of Bono, while "Breathe" it directly strikes to the stomach with the roughness of its guitars and he/she remains one of the tallest episodes of the disk, an attempt succeeded to recover the explosive position of the first U2s. The worthy closing is submitted to the melancholy one "Cedars Of Lebanon", supported by the deep voice of Bono that wears the cloths of a reporter of war, giving some raw verses that you/they close the album "you Choose with care your nemici.Nons they are with you to the beginning there but when it ends your history. They will stay for a longer time with you of your friends."
Ended the listening, the feeling is warned that has remained inside something of depth and you/he/she has been suffered the desire to again cross the paths of this extraordinary "No Line on the Horizon", without doubt the tallest point reached by the band of Dublino in the last ten. Here the U2s have given the maximum one from the creative point of view, supported by the ingeniousness of the producers, giving life to a job where nothing is left to the case, all the passages have a life really but they perfectly amalgamate in the sonorous context of the album. Useless to throw in dance masterpieces as "The Joshua Tree" or "Achtung Baby", because it is clear that so tall points can never be reached, but with this last test the ex students of the Mount Temple School touch tall peaks, that become even more elevated if he/she is thought that Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., they are on the crest of the wave from almost thirty years and they don't not at all seem you pay until now some things unbelievable sorts. It will be the Irish stubbornness or the desire to always measure him with new challenges, done it is that it is absolutely correct that the U2s don't see any line to the horizon; their walk, since here long, it is well away from the conclusion that many detractors for a long time wish. And after having tasted this last work of the group it rises a question: does someone still dare say that Bono and partners should in advance retire? But please, we don't joke. | |
