U2 have released a brand-new six-track politically charged EP ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Called Days of Ash, the band describe it as a “new standalone six-track EP”. Island Records announced the EP on Ash Wednesday, 18 February.
Days of Ash contains a set of six tracks and new videos, and it is accompanied by a special one-off digital zine of the U2 magazine Propaganda, which was the official band magazine, first published in 1986.
The release is described as a “self-contained collection of five new songs and a poem” framed as “six postcards from the present”.
The track list comprises American Obituary, The Tears of…