’Tis the season… ALBUM season! U2’s Carnaval De Luz arrives November 13, 2026, and we’re going through every format announced so far: classic black vinyl, the rose indie-store edition outside the US, the sold-out yellow Third Man Records pressing, Target’s coppery gold, u2.com’s midnight blue marble and subscriber-only orange, Barnes & Noble’s curtain red, and the box set with the Days of Ash and Easter Lily EPs plus a slipmat. Also CD, cassette, a CD box set and Blu-ray audio. Is it a money grab? Kind of. Are we buying it anyway? Obviously. Jenny also shares a detail Bono confirmed: the tone at the end of Easter Lily is the first sound of Carnaval De Luz.

Before that, we look at why U2 keeps releasing albums in the fall, from Boy and October all the way to How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. Hillary tells the story of getting a leaked copy of HTDAAB as a birthday present, and we add more questions to the Bono-over-whiskey-and-cake list.

Then we read YOUR comments on Do You Feel Loved, now on screen so you can read along. We get into why it disappeared from PopMart after following Mofo, the Naked Funk “Alien Groove Sensation” sample (we play a bit of it), where you were in your fandom when Pop came out, and the big question: what’s the best song on Pop? (Please vs. Discotheque vs. Mofo.)

Plus: we rebranded! Say hi to our new silver-and-gold logo.

💬 Which Carnaval De Luz edition are you getting, and how will you hear it for the first time?

0:00 Intro + our new silver-and-gold look
2:09 Welcome to album season: U2’s fall release history
3:21 The leaked How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb birthday CD
4:08 Why does U2 always release in the fall?
6:34 Your Do You Feel Loved comments
16:45 What’s the best song on Pop?
19:27 Side B: every Carnaval De Luz format
25:42 The Easter Lily / Carnaval De Luz connection

🎧 Kissing Lips and Breaking Hearts with the Garden Tarts, the irreverent U2 podcast hosted by Jenny and Hillary, two friends who’ve been chasing U2 around the world for decades.
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