Which 2014 they let him out “Songs of Innocence” in 2017 in “Songs of Experience” (the one I found with the one I want in your iTunes and wasn’t deleted at all) and now U2 they are around the corner “Songs of Surrender”.

Maybe some time ago Bono said that his group has 20 new songs ready, “Songs of Ascension” but that’s not what U2 will release next spring even though they’ve been promising it since 2009. ALTERNATING CURRENT who also expressed a wish that the band’s frontman wanted to record.

For those who remember, of course, Bono released his autobiography last year. “Give up”, which was divided into 40 chapters, each named after a U2 track.

It is this concept that also inspired this new U2 release: on “Songs of Surrender” the band will play 40 of their tracks again, otherwise.

As their leader said back in November and the release of his book: “During quarantine, we had the opportunity to reimagine 40 U2 tracks for the Songs of Surrender compilation, which made me relive those songs while I was writing my autobiography. . It also meant that I could do something that tickled me for a while. It always seemed to me that the lyrics of some songs are not quite finished. Now. (I think so)”.

The official announcement of “Songs of Surrender”, which will reach our headphones March 17 (on St. Patrick’s Day, that is, being Irish), came from edge through a letter to the band’s fans, in which, among other things, we read:

“When a song becomes famous, it is always associated with a certain voice. I can’t imagine “Tangled Up In Blue” without the piercing voice of Bob Dylan, or “All The Time In The World” without the inimitable voice of Louis Armstrong.

So what happens when the voice develops and experience and maturity give it additional meaning? U2 have been around long enough to know.”

U2 accompanied the announcement of “Songs of Surrender” with one teaser, in which we will try its new version for the first time “Great day”: