U2 surprised everyone with new music this week. They released a six-track EP (five songs and one poem) called Days of Ash on Ash Wednesday.

The Discovery

I didn’t even hear about it until Thursday morning.

And even then, I didn’t believe it. I saw a photo post on social media set to music, with the name “American Obituary” by U2. I thought, that’s odd, I don’t know of any U2 song by that name. Often social media sites license music so people can add it to their posts, so I thought this must be some relic U2 song, maybe a Joshua Tree outtake? I unmuted the post so I could hear the song, listened to a bit of it, and moved on.

It wasn’t until another friend posted about actual new U2 music that I realized what it was.

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