The Tears Of Things

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  Seven Songs for the Week #151 - 25th Feb 26

  Jason Carty

  Last week, before I had put out playlist #150, I was on a day off and doing some domestic painting when I got a notification that U2 had just released a new six song EP for Ash Wednesday. I jumped onto Apple Music immediately. I was initially expecting more "reworkings" but no, it was six new tracks, or more specifically, five new tracks and a poem.

  I had reached a point where I never expected to hear from U2 again. Larry's nebulous health problems, playing in Vegas without him, Bono's solo book, that terrible, terrible album of re-recordings, the odd Disney+ show with Letterman, the Bono live show on AppleTV. In 9 years there were two new songs - the ignorable Atomic City and the embarrassingly invisible This Song Saved My Life. Activity with very little substance.

  To hit play on track one, American Obituary, and to realise it was an actual proper new U2 song, one with vim, was a thrill to be honest. I want them to be great. The Tears of Things is the second track on the EP and easily is the best thing they've done in two decades. YMMV.