Alright, so I've listened to the new U2 album enough times to probably share a few thoughts.
Positives: I think the two best songs are Lights of Home and Little Things. I think the closer is better than Song for Someone and kind of works as it's done. I like the boldness of the opener in terms of being restrained and trying something new, and I think the vocoder actually works since it's better than Bono actually trying a falsetto in a clean mic in 2017. The Blackout is alright, though I think it could be way better executed if they tweaked some things with the chorus to make it jump more. I found Summer of Love interesting, as well.
Negatives: The rest. Tracks 3-5 are not good, with Best Thing being the best by virtue of at least working as an earworm because of the catchy melody. Get Out is an atrocious attempt at re-writing Beautiful Day, maybe the band's most naked callback to an old song ever, and it ruins any chance it would have had. American Soul is a complete mess. Red Flag Day I can't get a handle on. The Showman takes an interesting lyrical idea and ruins it with a completely nonsense chorus. The penultimate song isn't for me.
Like pretty much every 2000-now U2 album, a couple worthwhile tracks, some interesting attempts, and some real swing and misses, primarily again with the ones they choose to be singles. There are individual things that surprised me, but on the whole, this is exactly the level of quality I expected from this album, which is to say not too good. Bono is pretty much out of lyrical ideas and Edge is totally out of guitar ideas, and the band is never going to be very good when both of those things are true.