U2 - Songs Of Surrender (CD)

‘Songs of Surrender’ features 16 new acoustic & re-imagined recordings from the U2 catalogue.

Produced & Compiled by The Edge. Including ‘One’, ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’, & ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)’.

• The CD is housed in a 4 panel digi-sleeve
• Includes 12-page booklet Feat. Liner notes from The Edge

Songs Of Surrender is curated and produced by The Edge and sees the band revisit some of the most celebrated songs of their 40+ year career, including ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and ‘Invisible’, for a musical reimagining resulting in a completely new recording of each track, to include the arrangements and, in some cases, new lyrics.  

The Edge said of the project: “Music allows you to time travel, and we became curious to find out what it would be like to bring our early songs back with us to the present day and give them the benefit, or otherwise, of a 21st century reimagining. 

What started out as an experiment quickly developed into a personal obsession as so many of our songs yielded to a new interpretation. Intimacy replaced post punk urgency. New tempos, new keys, and in some cases new chords and new lyrics arrived. A great song, it turns out is kind of indestructible.

The process of selecting which songs to revisit started with a series of demos. I looked at how a song would hang together if all but the bare essential elements were taken away. The other main aim was to find ways to bring intimacy into the songs, as most of them were originally written with live concert performance in mind. 

Reviewing these sketch recordings with producer Bob Ezrin, it was very easy to see the ones that worked straight off the bat and those that needed more work. We all got into the sensibility of less is more.”

The 40 newly recorded tracks are collected together under each of the four bandmember names across four separate ‘albums’, with The Edge adding – “Hearing the songs interact, and finding the running orders for the four albums was really thrilling; finding the surprising segues, getting a chance to DJ. Once we had four distinct albums it was easy to see who would be the figurehead for each one.”

Tracklist
01. One
02. Where The Streets Have No Name
03. Stories For Boys
04. Walk On (Ukraine)
05. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
06. City Of Blinding Lights
07. Ordinary Love
08. Invisible
09. Vertigo
10. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
11. The Fly
12. If God Will Send His Angels
13. Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
14. Sunday Bloody Sunday
15. I Will Follow
16. "40"