Carnaval de Luz CD

Carnaval de Luz arrives as U2’s 16th album, their first new songs in nine years, with Jacknife Lee again producing, the producer they’ve used since 2004’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The closer, "Torn," is a duet with Dolly Parton that her team has confirmed as her last recorded vocal performance, co-written by U2, Parton, and Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid, the kind of pairing that sounds like a stunt until you hear it. It lands as the band marks fifty years, following the shorter Days of Ash and Easter Lily EPs.