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No Line On The Horizon - U2
  • Band Name: U2
  • Record Label: Interscope
  • Release Date: Mar 3, 2009
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Metascore
72 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 305 Ratings

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  • Summary: The 12th studio album for the Irish rock band was produced with Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Steve Lillywhite.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 30
  3. Negative: 2 out of 30
  1. Blender
    100
    No Line on the Horizon is U2's third killer in a row--by now, it's bizarre to remember that just 10 years ago, everybody thought they were headed toward the dinosaur band tar pits.
  2. All Music Guide
    60
    Upon first listen, No Line on the Horizon seems as if it would be a classic grower, an album that makes sense with repeated spins, but that repetition only makes the album more elusive, revealing not that U2 went into the studio with a dense, complicated blueprint, but rather, they had no plan at all.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    30
    No Line on the Horizon reaches for "The Unforgettable Fire's" post-"War" reinvention but misfires this side of "Pop" without the songs.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 102
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 102
  3. Negative: 15 out of 102
  1. nick
    8
    U2 in a form i have missed for 15 years. there are numbers that over-compensate for obvious fear of losing pop status; but the band has been most poignant when at their strangest and most daring. the only thing missing is a unifying idea; the way 'zooropa' argued that addiction to technology, information, drugs, porn; all that is created to bring us closer only creates isolation for the individual. that is the most modern and most human feeling the band has ever brought to attention. unfortunately, it's too scary a feeling for those who are too wrapped up in all of that; or an argument that those who are fortunate enough to have something deeper are too distant from to really appreciate.… Expand
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  2. AristonB
    5
    Synthetic U2, have some moments, what remind what u2 used to be, but lacking soul. Achtung Baby meets How To..., and the last one wins. U2, was it for love or $$$?… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. WilliamI.
    3
    Who could put all of those B-sided songs into an album? Energy level is no more than hum. Must be last album...songs are lame, music lame....I own almost all of their albums...this one...the should pay me to listen to. Seriously, do not waste your time or money.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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