U2 - Get On Your Boots

Brace yourselves. U2 are back and we all know what that means: Bono’s beady eyes and big ol’ snout peering out menacingly from the front of music magazines across the world, lifetime achievement awards limply handed out by Industry Folk and a plague-like saturation of radio stations and yer MTV.

This new single from those four salt-of-the-earth Irish lads is an inevitable rocker falling flaccidly from the Vertigo cast. Full of crunchy guitars and smug swagger we can assume this will be the least sanctimonious cut from the album as Bono sings I don’t want to talk about wars between nations (for all of three-and-a-half minutes). Also, try and listen out for the Arctic Monkeys-style drums - they stick out like Wayne Rooney in a public library.

Ultimately it’s an aimless exercise in Rocking Out but, dear reader, this is a warning: U2 are back and Bono is telling you to Get On Your Boots. I can only assume he means ethically traded, crafted-by-the-hands-of-self-sufficient-Peruvian-tribesmen boots.