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U2 Gets On Its Boots for First All-New Full-Length Record in Nine Years, ‘Carnaval de Luz,’ With More Callbacks to Band’s ’90s Peaks Than ’80s Glories: Album Review

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Variety publishes an album review of "Carnaval de Luz," U2's first full-length album of all-new material in nine years. The review argues that the record has more callbacks to the band's slightly edgier '90s work than to its '80s output. It notes that Bono opens the album singing "The past and me have got to break up," a line the reviewer says sounds like a mission statement, though it adds that he doesn't linger long on that theme.

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  1. Variety FIRST 48m ago U2 Gets On Its Boots for First All-New Full-Length Record in Nine Years, ‘Carnaval de Luz,’ With More Callbacks to Band’s ’90s Peaks Than ’80s Glories: Album Review

    “The past and me have got to break up,” Bono sings in the verse that opens “Carnaval de Luz,” U2’s first full-length album of all-new material in nine years. It sounds like a mission statement, doesn’t it? The singer doesn’t linger long on combating nostalgia or breaking out of ingrained patterns, or whatever he means […]

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