U2 Share ‘Street of Dreams,’ a Rain-Soaked Video from Mexico City

Eight years after Songs of Experience, U2 have returned with a song that owes part of its genesis to a Mexico City storm. “Street of Dreams,” the first single from their still-untitled album due later this year, arrives with a video shot in and around Plaza Santo Domingo. Thunderstorms and heavy rain didn’t stop the crowd that gathered; when the power cut, a local family invited the band inside, and key scenes were filmed from an apartment balcony. The result, directed by Cliqua, captures the kind of improvised closeness that has occasionally saved the group from its own scale.

Produced by longtime collaborator Jacknife Lee, the track weaves prayer, protest, and a bilingual chorus — “La calle, calle de los sueños” — into a familiar U2 framework of collective hope. Bono doesn’t retreat from the plainspoken: “Justice, an obsession on the street of dreams,” he sings, sounding less like a stadium cry and more like a line written for a city that opened its doors.

The single follows the surprise EPs Days of Ash and Easter Lily, which Bono has described as raw snapshots from the band’s “wilderness years.” The album will be their first full-length since 2017, and for a group learning to shed old reflexes, the Mexico City shoot suggests something more valuable than a comeback narrative: a moment of genuine disarray turned into an image, with no rain machines required.