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U2

No Line on the Horizon

(Interscope)   www.interscope.com     As icy as its graying minimalist cover by Japanese photog Hiroshi Sugimoto might suggest, No Line on the Horizon is U2's messiest album more...

U2

The Unforgettable Fire: Super Deluxe Edition [reissue]

(Mercury/Universal)   www.islanddefjam.com   So this is where it really began.   Not U2's initial lift-off; that was a year earlier, with 1983's War, and an ensuing world tour more...

Uh Huh Her

Common Reaction

(Nettwerk) www.nettwerk.com   Disco's not dead. The sounds of the ‘70s are as engaging as ever.  New wave champs like Blondie, the Motels and Missing Persons left a lingering more...

Umphrey's McGee

Mantis

(SCI Fidelity)     www.scifidelity.com   Riding the wave of a successful marketing plan and fresh studio approach to creating musical compositions, Chicago quintet Umphrey's more...

Unbunny

Sensory Underload

 (Parasol)   www.parasol.com     Over the course of more than a dozen years and various releases under different monikers, Unbunny's rambling trajectory has proven as odd more...

Undertones

An Anthology [reissue]

(Union Square)   www.unionsquaremusic.co.uk Formed amidst the struggle and strife of Northern Ireland in the mid-‘70s, the Undertones forged a sound that borrowed liberally from both more...

Underworld vs. The Misterons

Athens

(Studio !K7)   www.k7.com     It's a shame that the AV Club has already run their least essential albums of 2009 list, because as enjoyable as it is, Athens would have been a more...

UNKLE

End Titles…Stories for Film

(Surrender All)   www.unkle.com     Unlike James Lavelle's wrong-n-rocking recent War Stories, UNKLE's latest release culls from and was created for things cinematic: soundtrac more...

Upper Crust

Revenge for Imagined Slights

(Camp Street Records)   www.campstreetrecords.bigcartel.com   Doctor Johnson was, as always, right when he observ'd: "Amongst the divers colonial Practitioners of the rocque & r more...

Urges

Psych Ward

(Wicked Cool)   www.wickedcoolrecords.com   It's pretty clear what Little Steven sees in these guys. If you're gonna do a show called Little Steven's Underground Garage, this is ex more...


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