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So, the wait is over. The anticipation has been swallowed up. U2’s eagerly awaited new album, No line on the Horizon, hits the shelves next Monday. But it’s already on the Internet via myspace. I’ve played it through a few times and my first impression is that it’s a bold departure from their last two albums but there is a fresh, daring, ‘experimental’ aura about it.

The spiritual subtleties are there for those with ears to hear and the best theological review I’ve found so far is here.

Magnificent seems to be an infectious stadium anthem, including the words: 

I was born to sing for you 

I didn’t have a choice
But to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my voice
From the womb my first cry
It was a joyful noise
Oh, oh

Only love
Only love can leave such a mark
But only love
Only love can heal such a scar


Justified till we die
You and I will magnify

Oh, the magnificent

Magnificent

Stand Up Comedy includes the intriguing lines:

I can stand up for hope, faith, love
But while I’m getting over certainty
Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady

During White as Snow, there is a melody that sounds very much like the Advent hymn ‘O come, O come, Emmanuel’. Bono sings:

Once I knew there was a love divine
Then came a time I thought it knew me not
Who can forgive forgiveness where forgiveness is not
Only the lamb as white as snow.