Thoughts on No Line On The Horizon

No Line On The Horizon is the 12 studio album of U2 career. Quality over quantity seems to be the mado throughout U2 30 year career and No Line On The Horizon seems to fallow that trend. No line On the Horizon starts off with the title track of the same name,which after the first couple of seconds seems to find its pace and the use of the piano has a simplistic fill to it.Magnificent runs a similarly trend at is one of the stronger tracks on the album were Adam Clayton bass line is the central and drives the song and The edge lays back until the simple but affective solo. Bono lyrically starts to come out to the forefront of Moment Of Surrender , but throughout the album Bono seems to be out of place and times which hurts tracks such I'll go Crazy If I don't go crazy tonight.

I weakest portions of No Line on the Horizon seems to be the middle with I'll go Crazy If I don't go crazy tonight and Get Out Your Boots
, Which fills out of place compared to the rest of the album. Get Out Your Boots, is catchy and the distorted bass drives the song but it just fills bland and compared to the rest of the album it felt like the song U2 had to do for a commercial hit and nothing else which ultimately hurts the album. The same can be said for Stand Up Comedy which is a okay song but not rocking the boat.No Line on The Horizon seems to find its feet again with Fez-Being Born which has a cool intro on the lines of Nine Inch Nails instrumental album Ghosts I-IV. U2 goes into more experimental sounds in White as Snow with simple track that has a poetic fill to it and Bono is strongest lyrically in the tail end of the album. Which leads to the best song on the No Line On the Horizon Lyrically and musically Breathe comes together perfectly.Cedars Of Lebanon plays like you are reading a journal and takes a few listens to actually get it and pretty much sums up the whole album.

First, I am not really giving this Album an actually score but just my opinion. Overall, No Line on the Horizon seems to be an album that starts of great and had some missteps on the way. It's a good album but not great. It felt disjointed at times and U2 wanted to go more experimental lyrically and musically and at parts it does it very well but falls in its conventional traps("Get on your boots", "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight". I would have been happy if No Line On The Horizon was a 8 track album. It will take a few listens and for Die Hard U2 fans it will still be a easy buy but for everyone else checkout the album on last.fm.