U2 “No Line On The Horizon”
Standouts - “Magnificent,” “Moment of Surrender,” “Unknown Caller”

On the title track of U2’s latest album, “No Line On The Horizon,” frontman Bono sings “Every night I have the same dream/I’m hatching some plot, scheming some scheme.” The Irish rockers’ 12th studio album reflects some heavy scheming on the part of the band, and its longtime producers, to mine wider sonic territory that the band has explored since the 1990s. The result is an album that feels more compelling in sound and less strident in message than U2’s previous two efforts this decade. Thematically, “No Line ...” finds Bono the lyricist exploring familiar U2 fare: love, hope, God and war, but less directly.