U2 Teases ‘Songs of Surrender’ With Letters Mailed to Fans

U2 followers around the globe have begun receiving letters from the band teasing their upcoming undertaking, Songs of Surrender, suggesting the album’s official announcement is imminent.

Some Twitter customers just lately posted pictures of their letters, which seem to be photocopies of a handwritten word from guitarist the Edge. The letters include the hashtag #U2SOS40, a reference to the truth that Songs of Surrender will characteristic 40 reinterpreted songs from U2’s catalog.

“When a song becomes well known, it’s always associated with a particular voice,” the letter begins. “I can’t think of ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ without the reedy timbre of Bob Dylan or ‘All the Time in the World’ without the unique voice of Louis Armstrong.

“So what occurs when a voice develops and expertise and maturity give it extra resonance? U2 have been round lengthy sufficient to know what that’s like. It’s true for us all, nevertheless it’s significantly true for Bono.”

The Edge further explained that U2 wrote most of their songs as “very younger males,” and they “imply one thing fairly totally different to us now.” With Songs of Surrender, the quartet sets out to “convey these songs again with us to the current day and provides them the profit or in any other case of a Twenty first-century reimagining.”

In the process, he wrote, “Intimacy changed post-punk urgency. New keys. New chords. New tempos and new lyrics arrived. It seems that an important tune is type of indestructible. Once we surrendered our reverence for the unique model every tune began to open up to a brand new genuine voice of this time, of the individuals we’re, and significantly the singer Bono has turn into.”

In conclusion, the guitarist said, “I hope you want our new route.”

U2 has not but introduced the official observe itemizing for Songs of Surrender, nevertheless it’s anticipated to correspond with the 40 songs that Bono used as chapter titles in his latest memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Those titles could be seen on the U2Songs web site.

In the “After the Afterwords” part of his e-book, the singer wrote, “During lockdown, we were able to reimagine 40 U2 tracks for the Songs of Surrender collection, which gave me a chance to live inside those songs again as I wrote this memoir. It also meant I could deal with something that’s been nagging me for some time. The lyrics on a few songs that I’ve always felt were never quite written. They are now. (I think.)”

Bono launched his Stories of Surrender e-book tour in New York in November.