Rolling Stone (p.172)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "This is grandiose music from grandiose men, sweatlessly confident in the execution of their duties."Rolling Stone (pp.152-3)
- Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "U2 soar to adult glory with a guitar-driven vigor that hearkens back to 1980's BOY..." Spin (p.64)
- Ranked #29 in Spin's "40 Best Albums of the Year" - "An '80s rock band making a great 11th album." Entertainment Weekly (pp.115-16)
- "'Crumbs From Your Table' is the type of glorious gallop this band can write in its pub nap, but no one does it better." - Grade: B Uncut (p.136)
- "[I]t's their most unabashedly strident record since THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE....Though the band rattle and strum with their old '80s vigour, the lines that stay with you speak of a creeping malaise." Uncut (p.76)
- Ranked #35 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[A] brilliantly expansive album and their best since ACHTUNG BABY." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.60)
- Ranked #17 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2005" - "HTDAAB harmonised post-punk U2 and the modern, humanistic concerns of Bono Inc..." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.96)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]hey continue to pioneer a new future for rock music....What is clear is that there's a new maturity to Bono's lyrics." The Guardian 9 of 10
Virtually everything that once made U2 the kind of band that the Teardrop Explodes or the Pet Shop B
ShakingThrough.net 8 of 10
Atomic Bomb is a reduction of U2's most definable characteristics into a very basic formula: - Kevin Forest Moreau
Rolling Stone 9 of 10
U2 bring that old-school, wide-awake fervor to How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The last time - Rob Sheffield
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