No Line On The Horizon
So here I am, Friday night in Brussels, just having drunk a bottle of the greatest beer in the world, listening to U2s latest album "No Line On The Horizon". I purchased the aforementioned shiny disk of joy on the back of a 5 star review in Q Magazine. I used to have a policy of buying 5 star titles from this estimable tome as a matter of policy. Over the years this has led to some great purchases of releases from the likes of David Byrne, Razorlight, Jet, The Killers and Muse. In this case the 5 stars were augmented by a claim from the magazine that their latest release is their best album to date. Given this claim, and a liking for previous stuff from Dublin's finest this latest purchase was a gimme. And so on to Brussels a glass of Westvleiteren and Bono the Edge (on the edge of time) and co. giving it some via my MacBook Pro and a set of Logitech speakers. The verdict... fecking excellent. Unlike previous U2 albums, this one is a slow burn, taking time to wiggle it...