05/16/2007
At the smallest level, the album deals with reconciling the death of Bono’s close friend, Greg Carroll. At a larger level, the album both implicitly and explicitly praises and criticizes America as an idea and tyrant. And at the largest level, the album can be seen as a meditation on loss and redemption. But as Brian Eno says, the result is simply a rich and densely interconnected stretched envelope, called an album.
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