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U2’s <i>No Line on the Horizon</i> Leaks, (sort of) Delivers

5:35 p.m. · February 19, 2009 · by Nick Earhart

For those of you waiting with bated breath, U2's No Line on the Horizon has finally leaked. The verdict: a slower, slightly scattered, mix of come-one-come-all sloganeering – it’s U2 after all – chugging riffage, and post-Pop genre experiments, treated in typically epic Brian Eno/Daniel Lanois fashion. Bono and the gang are still reaching for grand, contemporary statements – love, life, the Internet, and all – but seem a bit hung over from five years of humanitarianism.