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How To Buy... U2 #4

5:48 PM GMT 25/02/2009

4. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
(ISLAND 2004)

It's not a "story" like All That You Can't Leave Behind (Lazarus-like commercial comeback with side order of midlife crisis), but ...Bomb lacks its predecessor's uncertainties. A sleek, state-of-the-art warship with the wind of a mainstream guitar rock revival at its back, and an almost comically overwhelming secret weapon in the shape of Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own - Bono's elegy to his father, Bob Hewson - HTDAAB mixes bone-juddering rock'n'roll thrills (All Because Of You) with spiralling melody (City Of Blinding Lights), and if there's a flaw it's that it's almost too painstakingly polished. Where's the rubbish track that's on every U2 album? Oh, here it is - it's called Yahweh.

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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 5:48 PM GMT 25/02/2009


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