Open share drawer Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit U2âs daring 1993 album, a staggeringly weird and strangely intimate political pop experience. Around the world, a resurgence of fascism. In Germany, gangs of skinheads brutalize immigrants. In France, Le Penâs far-right Front National brings hate to the ballot box. Muslims die, en masse, in intractable foreign wars, and their deaths slip from the front page to the second. So much news. So much of it bad. All of it relayed to us, instantaneous, on bright, beguiling screens.