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<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ISLAND<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n U2\u2019s second surprise six-track EP of 2026, Easter Lily arrives six weeks after Days Of Ash<\/a> \u2013 the period in the ecclesiastical calendar known as Lent. For U2 fans, it\u2019s a case of feast rather than fast, with both releases standing alone and distinct from the band\u2019s new studio album<\/a>, for which recording sessions remain ongoing. As The Edge<\/a> explains in the new accompanying edition of the band\u2019s Propaganda \u2019zine: \u201cWe wrote some songs meant for our album, but they started to assert themselves in some unexpected ways, demanding special attention, their own devotional world, suggesting they didn\u2019t feel part of our album. So we folded\u2026 agreed to their timeline\u2026 the songs are the boss.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n These are certainly boss songs \u2013 Easter Lily feels like the strongest collection of material U2 have mustered in at least 20 years, reuniting the band\u2019s elemental melodic urges and the spiritual fire that somehow got lost amid the vanilla sonic landscapes of last decade\u2019s Songs Of Innocence<\/a><\/em>\/Songs Of Experience<\/a><\/em> albums. While the Days Of Ash material landed like news bulletins from the world\u2019s multiple conflict zones \u2013 naming names,\u00a0taking sides \u2013 this latest EP is a dispatch from the internal frontline, testing whether ties of faith and friendship will suffice in these dark times. \u201cI feel alone, I need it known,\u201d sings Bono on the lyrical keystone In A Life, \u201cI never achieved anything on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Musically, this material coalesces around what many would regard as U2\u2019s foundational elements \u2013 time and again, The Edge\u2019s signature semaphoric guitar is thrillingly conjoined in perpetual motion with the post-punk era\u2019s least showy yet staunchest rhythm section. Choose your favourite song from any \u201980s U2 album, and Scars is that band at its heedless peak and then some, their fraternal bonds immutably gnarled by the years of graft and glory, the happy accidents, the mistakes. As Bono says: \u201cAll the tyrants you\u2019ve defeated\/The only one that\u2019s left is you.\u201d Opening track Song For Hal is just as good, an elegy for the late producer Hal Wilner \u2013 \u201cI watched him disappear from a photograph\u201d \u2013 sung with such celestial heart by The Edge that it builds into an anthem for everyone who ever lost a friend.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n As with Days Of Ash, this record is testimony to the restored catalytic impact of Larry Mullen Jr., with Resurrection Song a prime example of how his austere belligerence heightens what might otherwise have been a routine slab of U2 positivism. Bono rises to the challenge by pre-emptively taking the piss out of himself: \u201cIf I sound ridiculous I\u2019m not done yet.\u201d The song\u2019s synthetic undertow segues into the full-on Vangelis electro-pulses of Easter Parade, which Adam Clayton cheekily augments with a version of the bass line from The Stone Roses<\/a>\u2019 I Am Resurrection \u2013 hey, it\u2019s an Easter song, geddit? While Bono goes the full Catholic Mass with his valedictory chant \u201cKyrie eleison\u201d, the closing CO-EXIST (I Will Bless The Lord At All Times?) takes the full communion biscuit: co-written with Brian Eno, it features the singer sotto voce skat-rapping, then digitally altered and enhanced into his own one-man choir inveighing against the co-mingling of religion and war. Impossible to argue with the sentiment, the execution will be too much for some to stomach.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n So its predecessor was released on Ash Wednesday, and now Easter Lily lands on Good Friday, the day after the Last Supper \u2013 in case you weren\u2019t aware, U2 do \u2018do God\u2019, and this EP is the soundtrack to their revival. The great unknown for true believers at this moment is how these EPs relate to the imminent main event: are these outliers from a safer path, or will U2\u2019s 15th studio album be cut from a similar exultant cloth. Whatever unfolds, anyone who\u2019s stepped inside this band\u2019s broad church, be it to idle at the back, rest awhile on a pew, or prostrate themselves at the altar, will find renewed reason to believe amid the abundant creative energies laid bare herein. Songs of resurrection indeed \u2013 a miracle to behold.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Easter Lily is available to stream now and\u00a0is accompanied by another\u00a0special digital e-zine\u00a0edition\u00a0of the band\u2019s newly revived fanzine Propaganda.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Song for Hal<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n In a Life<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Scars<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Resurrection Song<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Easter Parade<\/p>\nEaster Lily<\/h3>\n
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