release date: Nov. 22, 2004
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,16]
producer: various
label: Island Records - nationality: Ireland
Track highlights: 1. "Vertigo" - 3. "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" - 6. "All Because of You" (4 / 5) - 10. "Original of the Species"
11th studio album by U2 was not produced by a single producer or a group of people but each and every song had various people producing the individual tracks for the album. Having said that, it's also a return to their first producer Steve Lillywhite, who produced the band's first three albums, and who is credited as producer on five of this album's originally 11 tracks. Chris Thomas produced two tracks (and co-produced one track with Daniel Lanois), and the remaining tracks all had individual producers. Four years after All That You Can't Leave Behind (Oct. 2000) doesn't really suffice to make more than a decent release, and again rumour has it that the band was about to split. The album contains the fine tracks "Vertigo" (a track that was meant to reestablish the band as a real rock quartet), "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own", and the only really great track "All Because of You" - the rest are easily forgotten.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5, 👎Rolling Stone, Q Magazine 4 / 5 stars ]
