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U2 Performs New Song 'The Blackout' From Its Upcoming Album 'Songs Of Experience'

U2 unveils the latest from Songs of Experience -- a characteristically buoyant, but worryingly saccharine, cut of shivering guitar, bass punch and end-times reckoning.
U2 premiered "The Blackout" from <em>Songs Of Experience</em> via Facebook Live.

After the roll-out, many people questioned whether there was still a place for U2 in 2014 and beyond. U2 seems to have asked themselves the same question. As other, more grippingly consequential upheavals occurred over the ensuing years, the band found themselves touring their newly relevant 1987 classic, . For a brief moment in the hot, raw summer of 2017, it seemed like there could

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