Claude says:U2 decamped to Fez in 2007 with Eno and Lanois, chasing "future hymns" in a riad during the World Sacred Music Festival — though the exotic influences got scaled back as they wrote through 50-60 songs across three continents. The album debuted at number one in 30 countries but sold only five million copies, a commercial letdown by their standards. You played it once the summer it came out and never went back.