The new U2 album, No Line on the Horizon, is out March 3 and the new single "Get on your boots" is out today!!!
The cover of Horizon (by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto) is easily the band's weirdest since 1993's Zooropa. I'm not sure what that means, exactly, but this thing is already looking better than 2004's below par How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. And, based on a recent Rolling Stone preview, No Line On The Horizon has the potential to be U2's oddest-sounding LP in more than a decade. Along with the requisite stadium anthems, there's some "choral music" and a "seven-minute-long track." Generally speaking, U2 are most interesting when they step out of their comfort zone, so the un-U2 art and relatively risky musical ideas seem promising.
NEWSFLASH!!!
So it turns out U2 aren't the first musicians to use Japanese photographer calming "Boden Sea" for their album cover. Sound artists Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree also featured the photo on the front of their 2006 LP Specification.Fifteen, an album inspired by Sugimoto's Seascapes series. And Deupree isn't too happy about it!!
New Suit On The Horizon?
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