The Irish Times

• The album that nearly finished U2: The story of How to Dismantle an ... | The Irish Times | Nov. 23, 2024, midnight
With 12 million sales and seven Grammys, that album had banished the bad vibes that lingered after Pop, the misfiring 1997 album on which U2 tried to go trip-hop, with disastrous consequences.

• Saint Etienne: The Night – Say hello to the insomniac street preachers | The Irish Times | Dec. 19, 2024, midnight
Saint Etienne: The Night – Say hello to the insomniac street preachers Bob Stanley, Sarah Cracknell and Pete Wiggs return with album about chilly thoughts that race through the middle-aged...

• Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature | The Irish Times | Dec. 5, 2024, midnight
Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature – Chvrches singer’s solo debut balances weighty lyrics with quirky melodies and clipped beats The Scottish vocalist’s album is a largely soft-edged and ...

• Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes – More drastic changes might have served him better | The Irish Times
The London-born musician tweaks his sound and thematic concerns, burrowing deeper into the niche he has forged

• U2: How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb track by track review – Hold on to your mirror shades for classic moments and wigged-out curios | The Irish Times
Inevitably for an out-take album, it’s a bit glued together and rough at the edges, but even U2 agnostics will like a lot of the tracks