Albim of the week

U2

Songs Of Innocence (Island)

The biggest criticism levelled at latter-day U2 is that their songs lack the bite of old – ever since Bono set about solving the world’s problems, rather than simply writing about them. There is an element of truth to that, as it’s been some time since they released anything nearly as piercing as, say, Bullet The Blue Sky.

But there’s enough on this 13th album – which arrived ...