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U2以《Carnaval De Luz》迎来50周年——不止是怀旧

Carnaval De Luz结束了近9年来两张完整新歌专辑之间的等待。2027年的体育场巡演将检验U2最新作品如何融入五十年的共同记忆。

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拉里·马伦二世（Larry Mullen Jr.）张贴征召乐手的学校启事50年后，U2选择以不止回顾往事的方式纪念这一周年。Carnaval De Luz于2026年11月13日由Island Records发行，为这份规模已足以自成纪念主题的作品目录增添了12首新歌。Bono、The Edge、Adam Clayton和Mullen仍是乐队的四位成员。⁠2⁠3

这张专辑是U2近9年来首张完整的新歌专辑，乐队称其为第16张录音室专辑。下一站已确定：体育场巡演将于2027年2月23日在墨西哥城的Estadio GNP Seguros揭幕。此次周年纪念如今有了面向未来的安排——一张关于友谊、灵性、自由与坚韧的专辑，随后是一场必须在五十年来耳熟能详的歌曲中为新作留出位置的演出。⁠3⁠93

这比单纯庆祝长盛不衰更值得关注。U2表达的观点并不是世界已不再那么令人忧虑，而是在这样的世界里，创造令人愉悦的事物依然值得。歌曲能否实现这一抱负，应由听众评判；但乐队对这一抱负的表述本身格外明确。

我们让旋律更甜美，让歌曲更加闪耀，因为如果世界陷入黑暗，我们最好不要也变得黑暗。

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近9年，但并非沉寂

这段间隔需要仔细厘清。Songs of Experience于2017年12月1日发行。Songs of Surrender随后于2023年3月17日推出，其中40首U2旧作经过重新录制和重新演绎，由The Edge策划并制作。那些是新录音，并非一张由新创作歌曲组成的完整专辑。这个区别比编号更重要：Carnaval De Luz标志着乐队重返持续创作新歌的状态，而不是结束长达9年的无作品发行期。⁠98⁠99⁠102

这也不是U2在周年纪念年发行的首批新作。两张各收录6首歌的独立EP——Days of Ash和Easter Lily——分别于2月18日和4月3日发行。加上这张专辑，乐队在这一年公布的作品共包括24首新歌。这三次发行均源自同一创作时期。⁠101⁠100⁠3

它们的概念顺序与发行顺序不同。按照乐队的解释，狂欢节在大斋期的克制和复活节的更新之前，因此在这套想象的日历中，Carnaval De Luz应排在两张EP之前，尽管它实际最后发行。庆祝并非逃避反思，而是同一进程的一部分。⁠2

Jacknife Lee担任专辑制作人。专辑公布的音乐方向是在实验性与更凝练的创作之间取得结合，曲目包括《The Greatest Show On Earth》《Glorify》和《Midnight Sunshine》。The Edge称这是一张“杂乱、挑衅而神圣的歌曲合集”，并补充说，这是U2录音中首次使用平绕弦——这是乐队吉他手对其录音历史的说法，并非经独立确认的技术里程碑。⁠2

这些合作伙伴将U2音乐生涯的多个脉络联系起来。Brian Eno参与共同创作并在《Go (Carnaval De Luz)》《The Greatest Show On Earth》和《Can’t Stop Us Now》中演奏合成器。Martin Garrix参与共同创作《Glorify》，Ryan Tedder则为《Silencio》担任额外制作人。乐队称这首时长2分35秒的歌曲是对早期冲浪朋克式叛逆精神的致敬。这些署名说明了作品的构成要素，并非对成品的评论判断。⁠3

收尾曲为专辑主题营造了更亲密的氛围。《Torn》是Bono与Dolly Parton的二重唱，讲述破裂的家庭关系，由U2、Parton和Johnny McDaid共同创作。U2和Universal Music Canada表示，Parton于2026年6月在纳什维尔录制了她的演唱部分，早于她8月25日去世，并称这是她最后一次录制的演唱表演。由Lee制作的这首歌中，Daniel Lanois演奏踏板钢吉他。⁠3⁠5

《Torn》也是第四支单曲，此前已发行《Street of Dreams》《Silencio》和《The Greatest Show On Earth》。发行周期间，Big Machine Records——Parton最近合作的唱片公司——推出了另一个乡村风格版本Kent Wells Version。这场合作以受损的人际关系问题为专辑收尾，而非以周年纪念的胜利巡礼作结。⁠3

在一座运转中的城市庆祝周年

这个起源故事依然简单，足以写在公告栏上。1976年9月，在都柏林北区的Mount Temple综合学校，Mullen手写的邀请写道：“鼓手征召乐手组建乐队”。U2在专辑公告中明确将新作与那张启事联系起来。50年后，乐队仍把它当作出发点，而不仅仅是博物馆展签。⁠2

9月25日，周年纪念走上街头。U2在格拉夫顿街的Bewley’s Oriental Café阳台上演出，晚上7点前不久亮相，并以《I Will Follow》开场。《爱尔兰时报》报道称，歌迷已聚集数小时，而四个大型扬声器早已让所谓的惊喜失去悬念。乐队一现身，格拉夫顿街的大部分路段便无法通行。⁠35

报纸的报道既捕捉到人们的情感联结，也记录了带来的不便。Craig和Stacey Molloy从英格兰赶来；他曾于2017年在都柏林的一场U2演唱会上向她求婚。Todd和Lara Garrison-Gebhart来自密歇根州，他们也曾在1987年为观看The Joshua Tree来到都柏林。Emer Bolger带着她6岁的儿子从卡洛郡赶来。他们周围，商店入口被堵住，South Anne Street部分路段封闭，外卖骑手则把餐食订单递过路障。⁠35

这些细节让这场活动显得真实而有人情味。周年纪念的人群不只是庆祝乐队过往的观众：其中有婚姻，有一次又一次的旅程，也有初次接触父母热爱的事物的孩子。人群也占据了其他人需要通行的空间。都柏林这场演出同时展现了集体体验的这两面。

此次发行也有收藏品的一面：除了标准版CD、黑胶唱片和数字下载，还有彩胶和豪华盒装。U2还重新推出了粉丝刊物Propaganda，这份杂志最初于1986年2月发行，此次以一次性数字杂志的形式回归，并限量印刷。内容包括歌词、Bono非线性的内页笔记、乐队成员的感想以及与合作伙伴的访谈。发行日的介绍对页数说法不一：U2.com称有124页，Universal Music Canada则称有128页。两份公告都没有解释这一差异。⁠3⁠5

新歌将走进体育场

下一场大型集会名为Carnaval De Luz presents: The Greatest Show On Earth World Tour。巡演将于2月23日在墨西哥城揭幕，已公布的拉丁美洲行程还包括圣保罗和布宜诺斯艾利斯，并由Beck担任暖场嘉宾。这是乐队公布的2027年拉丁美洲三座城市；开幕演出的公告不应被误认为是目前完整的巡演日程。⁠93

英国及欧洲站将于4月26日在斯德哥尔摩开启。法兰西体育场确认将在5月5日、8日和9日举行三场演出，U2在发行日公告中列出6月在伦敦托特纳姆热刺球场举行的四场演出。10月15日的巡演公告还称，正在计划回到爱尔兰家乡演出，北美场次则将于之后公布；仅凭这份声明，无法确认上述任何一地已有确定日期的演出安排。⁠3⁠46⁠93

这些是重返体育场演出的日期，并非U2自2019年以来的首次演出。乐队表示，上一次体育场巡演于当年12月在DY Patil体育场结束，新一轮演出的曲目将选自其全部作品目录。⁠93

这留下了一种有益的创作张力。五十年来的歌曲是观众前来的理由；新歌则让这次巡演不必只是与过去重逢。2027年2月23日，在墨西哥城，U2的周年纪念将从“还有话要说”的主张，转向让整座体育场静心聆听的实际挑战。

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  1. U2 has released twelve new songs for its fiftieth anniversary.
  2. Carnaval De Luz is the band's first full album of new songs in nearly nine years. A stadium tour begins in February. Now the band has to fit that new music into a live show drawn from fifty years of its catalogue.
  3. Carnaval De Luz arrived on November 13 through Island Records. U2 bills it as its sixteenth studio album. Its twelve songs explore friendship, spirituality and freedom, with endurance running through the record.
  4. The title is spelled Carnaval De Luz. And the nearly nine-year wait needs a little context. U2 released other recordings during that stretch, including an entire album that revisited familiar songs.
  5. Songs of Experience arrived in 2017 as U2's fourteenth studio album. Songs of Surrender followed in 2023, reworking forty existing songs. Carnaval De Luz brings a full album of new compositions back into that sequence.
  6. The Edge curated and produced Songs of Surrender. Its standard CD carried sixteen of those forty re-recordings. There was fresh songwriting before this album, too. U2 released two shorter collections earlier in its anniversary year.
  7. Days of Ash arrived on February 18 with six tracks. Easter Lily followed on April 3 with six more. Add the album's twelve, and U2's announced output for its fiftieth year reaches twenty-four new songs.
  8. All three releases grew out of the same creative period. Their imagined order follows the religious calendar. Carnival comes before the restraint of Lent and the renewal of Easter, even though U2 released its carnival album last.
  9. Bono described making light while darkness presses in. In his album statement, he wrote, “We make the melodies sweeter and the songs, they better shine, because if the world is in darkness we better not be.”
  10. The Edge called the collection “messy, provocative, sacred”. He also said it features the first use of flat-wound strings on a U2 recording. The band's stated aim combines experimentation with tighter songwriting on The Greatest Show On Earth, Glorify and Midnight Sunshine.
  11. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. remain the four musicians making the record and preparing the tour. Their anniversary reaches back to a handwritten invitation Mullen posted at school in September 1976.
  12. At Mount Temple Comprehensive School on Dublin's northside, Mullen put a notice on a board. Its invitation was simple: “Drummer Seeks Musicians To Form Band”. The new album announcement explicitly connected this release to that school notice.
  13. The anniversary also brought the band back into the middle of a working city. On September 25, U2 played from the balcony of Bewley's Oriental Café on Grafton Street, celebrating fifty years since the band's formation.
  14. U2 opened with I Will Follow shortly before seven in the evening. Fans had gathered for hours, and four large speakers had already given away the surprise. Once the band appeared, much of Grafton Street became impassable.
  15. People danced, sang and lifted children onto their shoulders. Craig and Stacey Molloy travelled from England. He'd proposed at a U2 concert in Dublin in 2017. Todd and Lara Garrison-Gebhart came from Michigan, having also travelled to Dublin for The Joshua Tree in 1987.
  16. Emer Bolger came from County Carlow with her six-year-old son. Around the crowd, shop entrances were blocked and parts of South Anne Street closed. Delivery riders collecting food had orders passed over barricades.
  17. Subscribe to this channel as U2 takes these new songs toward its return to stadiums.
  18. Jacknife Lee produced the album, with Duncan Stewart credited as engineer. Brian Eno co-wrote and played synthesizers on Go, The Greatest Show On Earth and Can't Stop Us Now. Other collaborators brought dance-pop production and country instrumentation into the sessions.
  19. Martin Garrix co-wrote Glorify. Ryan Tedder added production to Silencio, a two-minute, thirty-five-second track presented as a return to early surf-punk insolence. Daniel Lanois plays pedal steel on the closing song, Torn.
  20. Torn pairs Bono with Dolly Parton in a song about broken family ties. U2, Parton and Johnny McDaid wrote it together. Parton recorded her vocal in Nashville in June 2026, before her death on August 25.
  21. That Nashville session became Parton's final recorded vocal performance. Jacknife Lee produced the album track. A separate country version, the Kent Wells Version, also arrived during release week through Big Machine Records, her most recent label partner.
  22. Torn became the album's fourth single. Street of Dreams came first in July. Silencio followed with the September album announcement, and The Greatest Show On Earth arrived on October 15 alongside the tour announcement.
  23. Go opens the record, while Torn closes it. Between them, the running order includes La Reina, Street Of Dreams and Superficiality. The fourth song's official title is The Mirror Maker, with Rosalía's name in parentheses.
  24. Silencio's video was filmed in Mexico City by Cliqua, the directing duo Pasqual Gutiérrez and Raúl “RJ” Sanchez. Anton Corbijn directed The Greatest Show On Earth's video in the Californian desert. It satirizes U2 as a religious cult where women do the heavy lifting.
  25. The Greatest Show On Earth follows lovers trying to keep faith in each other and in faith itself. Eno co-wrote the song with U2. Its title now also names the band's next world tour.
  26. The release comes on standard CD, vinyl and digital download, alongside limited coloured vinyl, bespoke editions and deluxe box sets. The standard black vinyl is one twelve-inch, 180-gram record, with a gatefold sleeve and a sixteen-page booklet of lyrics, photographs and album imagery.
  27. The Mirror Maker edition uses heavyweight black vinyl with a silver-foil gatefold and mirror-board finish. The release also revives Propaganda, U2's fan publication, as a one-off digital magazine with a limited print run.
  28. Propaganda first appeared in February 1986. This edition includes lyrics, Bono's non-linear liner notebook and band reflections. Interviews feature Lee, Corbijn, Garrix and photographer Viviane Sassen. The two release announcements give different page counts.
  29. The magazine is described as 124 pages in one announcement and 128 in the other. Nobody has explained the difference. Both describe the same special edition accompanying Carnaval De Luz.
  30. Mexico City hosts the tour opening on February 23, 2027, at Estadio GNP Seguros. The announced Latin American route also takes U2 to São Paulo and Buenos Aires, with Beck supporting.
  31. Mexico City, São Paulo and Buenos Aires are the three Latin American cities named for the 2027 itinerary. The route then crosses to Europe, opening in Stockholm before reaching Stade de France and London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
  32. The initial subscriber presales ran October 19 through 21. General sales began October 22 for São Paulo and Buenos Aires, and October 23 for Mexico City. Those were the opening sale dates; current ticket availability will depend on the performance.
  33. The UK and European leg begins in Stockholm on April 26. Stade de France hosts three concerts on May 5, 8 and 9. Four shows at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium follow in June.
  34. The initial October tour announcement also described plans for an Irish homecoming and further North American dates. Those plans didn't give a complete schedule. The show itself is intended to draw from U2's whole catalogue, alongside the new album.
  35. These will be U2's first stadium dates since The Joshua Tree Tour ended at DY Patil Stadium in December 2019. That tour played to almost three million people worldwide. The next stadium performance is scheduled for February 23 in Mexico City.

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