U2 - No Line on the Horizon

[Bargo]

I started off not liking this album at all, but it's definitely grown on me in the last few listens. In fact, the only two songs that I truly dislike are Unknown Caller and I'll Go Crazy... Moment of Surrender is one of those take-it-or-leave-it songs for me (the looping *glunk-de-glunk* sound-effect that lasts the whole song just about kills it for me.. it's like the arrow in the Fedex logo, once you hear it you can't ever un-hear it) and everything else I think stands up pretty well. Magnificent is one of the best things they've written in a while. I would've liked to have noticed a larger Brian Eno influence on the songs.. have to agree with Pitchfork's review which noted that he seems largely relegated to creating "spacy intros" on this album.

Looking forward to Songs of Ascent in late 09 now.