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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The singer doesn’t linger long on combating nostalgia or breaking out of ingrained patterns, or whatever he means to suggest there. But you can rest assured, if you’ve ever read any U2 interviews this century, that the band is constantly wrestling with its legacy and how to move forward with relevance, just as certainly as Jacob wrestled the angel in “Bullet the Blue Sky.” They have been known to overthink it all, and impatient fans have been known to want to to say: Just put down your pencils and turn in your work, boys!

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In a “liner notebook” he wrote to accompany the album, Bono quips that “putting the messy in the messianic (is) the job of the frontman.” And there’s messiness aplenty in these 12 songs, which don’t always hang together as easily coherent statements but contain literally hundreds of quotable, fascinating, self-effacingly funny or deeply poetic lines, as if he penned a year’s worth of TED talks about God, the devil, love, ego and our shared humanity and fed them all into a blender. Not that the lyrics are completely random; Spanish phrases abound, and the album is loosely themed around Latin America’s pre-Lent celebrations, just as the two EPs U2 put out earlier this year were tied to Ash Wednesday and Easter.

U2 finally figured out how to carve out an album out of all the material they’d amassed by pulling together the songs that best fit a carnaval theme. Suffice it to say, anyway, that as “party albums” go, this is a pretty complicated one, dense in wily aphorisms excavating the realms of philosophy and pop theology.

But maybe you don’t want to know about where Bono is in his spiritual quest. You want to know: Does the album rock , in a less radio-conscious or tentative way than some of the albums they were putting out in the 2000s and 2010s?

Yes, by and large — and the way in which it rocks is closer to the U2 of the ’90s than an attempt to exactly replicate the signature sounds of the ’80s. One of the hookiest tracks, “La Reina,” gets a little too close to the ’90s for comfort, sounding baldly built on the template of “Even Better Than the Real Thing.” But if that sounds like a step in the right direction of decades t

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