All Eyes Out For You

The Hurst Review: More U2

Josh Hurst has all of a sudden become a one-stop-shop of essential reading on U2's new album No Line On The Horizon.  First he published this compendium of thoughts from around the blogosphere about the band.  Then he wrote this stellar review of the new record.

Now he continues the journey with this fascinating exchange with Beth Maynard, co-editor of the book Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog.  Hopefully the first installment of a series.

I have to give Josh the bulk of the credit for opening my eyes to No Line On The Horizon.  And as if that wasn't enough, he's been churning out album reviews at a brisk pace.  Check out his review of the new Marianne Faithfull record here.

Forgive the light blogging...

... Comcast has screwed me again, and the internet is out at the house.  The upshot is I've had lots of quality time with my two favorite albums of the moment, U2's No Line On The Horizon and Buddy & Julie Miller's Written In Chalk. 

I've already posted a review of Chalk, and my feelings about that record are and have been very uncomplicated -- I've loved it pretty much from the get-go.

Sometime in the near future, perhaps I'll pull together a coherent review of Horizon, documenting my complete reversal of opinion on this record.  It has really snuck up on me, and I'm as surprised as anyone to find U2 once again being a relevant part of my daily listening experience.  (Yes, Josh, I came around.)

What these two albums have in common is that they both have a whole lot to say - in much different ways, mind you - and are just what I need to hear these days.