The new songs are great. Definitely more uptempo and Rock sounding than Up, Reveal or Around The Sun.

I have torrents of all the shows except one.
Bono and Edge attended the first night.

They also played a ton of cool old songs at the shows that they hadn't played for years like Carnival of Sorts, Wolves Lower, 1000000, Second Guessing, Letter Never Sent, Kohoutek, West of the Fields, Harborcoat, Pretty Persuasion, Feeling Gravity's Pull, Romance, Cuyahoga, These Days, Circus Envy, and New Test Leper.

The shows were great, and what a cool idea.
If the songs don't get overproduced, it is going to be a great album. They sounded awesome live.

And I'll also add that from these clips it appears that the waking R.E.M. nightmare I've been living for the last 7 years appears to finally be ending. Thank the maker. O fcourse, that's what I thought when I saw them at a tiny show after the release of In Time, and I was wrong about them returning to glory that time...