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U2’s “Days of Ash” is an urgent dispatch from a band that still believes

With their surprise EP, U2 channels today’s global crises into a set of familiar but heartfelt protest songs

Published March 10, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)

With the surprise release of brand new music from U2 — the EP, “Days of Ash” — it feels self-indulgent to be thrilled that all four members of the band, including Larry Mullen Jr. (who had been missing from U2’s Las Vegas Sphere residency in 2023-24), are in the studio, writing and recording new music.

“Days of Ash” was released on Ash Wednesday, a digital-only (at least at press time) release featuring five new, original songs and one spoken-word performance. (It’s worth mentioning that there are no physical copies of the EP available, so anything you see being sold as “promo-only” on online auction sites is 100% fake, so don’t waste your money.)

The band called the record “. . .an immediate response to current events and inspired by the many extraordinary and courageous people fighting on the frontlines of freedom.” It is the first new music from all four members of U2 as a band since 2023’s “Atomic City” single, a mostly forgettable song about Las Vegas timed to coincide with the band’s extended residency at the Sphere.

“Days of Ash” is bright and brash and loud. The Edge’s guitar chords are as big as ever, written to echo off the walls of a football stadium. Adam Clayton’s bass rumbles majestically, and Larry Mullen Jr. — despite the........

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