David Hayes

Their weakest work to date. Slick, tight songs as you would expect but lacking in hooks or that get in your head quality that so many of their previous albums have had. Don’t like the guest singer concept. I don’t get what it adds. I know what is detracts however - a song without Flore singing. Third album is often the hardest. Feels like it here.

Overall, pretty terrible. Some song are just unlistenable. Nothing worse that someone doing bad cover versions but this is U2 doing terrible covers of their own songs. A rather self indulgent exercise really.