We didn’t write or fee a Twentieth-anniversary piece about U2’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Sorry. Generally, there’s simply not that a lot to say. At the moment marks the Twentieth anniversary of U2’s eleventh studio album. Once they launched that document, U2 had been almost a quarter-century faraway from their debut album Boy. U2 did a tremendous job remaining related for a really very long time, and How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb saved their streak going commercially, not less than. That album offered a number of copies. Loads of individuals had been into it. However is it actually price doing a deep-dive on that one? For us, it’s not.
Possibly it’s price it for U2, although. We would not be doing something to have a good time How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb turning 20, however U2 are doing it for us. Earlier this fall, U2 introduced plans to launch How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb, a “shadow album” that includes 10 songs that the band recorded across the identical time. A few of these songs had been already out on the earth in a single capability or one other, and a few had been beforehand unreleased.
We posted a few the beforehand unreleased songs, “Nation Mile” and “Happiness.” At the moment,
How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb is out now on Island.