U2 are reissuing ‘How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb’, their 2004 album featuring “Vertigo,” for its 20th anniversary. The new release, dubbed the ‘Re-Assemble Edition’, is out November 22nd via Interscope. It includes a remastered version of the original album, along with a handful of previously unreleased songs. Two of those tracks, “Country Mile” & “Picture of You (X+W),” are out now.
“How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” (remastered to celebrate the 20th Anniversary, with bonus track ‘Fast Cars’) & How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb (the shadow album – a collection of ten tracks including new, unreleased songs recently rediscovered in the archive of the original album sessions, now released for the first time), out November 22nd.
“The sessions for ‘How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb’ were such a creative period for the band, we were exploring so many song ideas in the studio,” the Edge said in a statement. “We were inspired to revisit our early music influences, and it was a time of deep personal introspection for Bono who was attempting to process—dismantle—the death of his father.”
He continued, “For this anniversary edition, I went into my personal archive to see if there were any unreleased gems and I hit the jackpot. We chose 10 that really spoke to us. Although at the time we left these songs to one side, with the benefit of hindsight we recognize that our initial instincts about them being contenders for the album were right, we were onto something…”
The band’s eleventh studio album was a massive success, with two of its singles, ‘Vertigo’ and ‘Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own’, reaching No 1 in the UK charts, and the other two (‘All Because of You’ and ‘City of Blinding Lights’) both going top five. The album went to number one virtually everywhere and won eight Grammy Awards, including ‘Album of the Year’.
This reissue campaign, offers two big box sets: a 5CD super deluxe or an 8LP vinyl super deluxe, that offer the same audio content, The box sets come with hardback photo books by Anton Corbijn featuring handwritten notes by the photographer and “never-before-seen” photos and 8 prints in a folio sleeve.
“How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” is re-released on 22nd November 2024, via UMR.
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