Zooropa is not the next great U2 album but a postcard from a Dublin studio...

Zooropa is a plugged-in, spaced-out dispatch from the blinking LED eye of the multimedia storm....

Zooropa sounds mostly like a band shedding its skin, trying on different selves for size.

More influenced than ever by co-producer-conceptualist Brian Eno, their music now parallels his in its pursuit of ambience.