At the time it was a louder version of the spiritual uplift of 2000’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind; on its 20th anniversary, the album sounds like a brutally direct reawakening following the band’s occasionally wayward ’90s.

It has been seven years since U2 last released an album of new material — by far their longest hiatus. To put it another way, they released five studio albums — from Boy to The Joshua Tree — in the same time span.