Title: Comfortable Middle Age
Product review: U2 will probably never quite be on the cutting edge again. But they seemed to have found a perfect groove for their middle age. Much like Bowie has done on his last two albums, U2 is now content with recombining sounds from their previous albums to create quality new songs. While this won't create anything spectacularly new, it's a fine way to keep up a long term career in rock. Most of the music here does evoke earlier songs (maybe too much with "Miracle Drug") but there are few misses here ("Yahweh" comes to mind as a failed song). The rockers here seem to do best, and "Vertigo" and "City of Blinding Lights" are top shelf U2. U2's adventurousness may be lost forever, but maybe adventurousness is for the younger bands. In their roll as rock statesmen, U2 are doing well.
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