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 venture, Songs of Give up, suggesting the album’s official announcement is imminent.

Some Twitter customers lately posted photographs of their letters, which look like photocopies of a handwritten notice from guitarist the Edge. The letters comprise the hashtag #U2SOS40, a reference to the truth that Songs of Give up will characteristic 40 reinterpreted songs from U2’s catalog.

“When a music turns into well-known, it is all the time related to a specific voice,” the letter begins. “I can not consider ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ with out the reedy timbre of Bob Dylan or ‘All of the Time within the World’ with out the distinctive voice of Louis Armstrong.

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

The Edge additional defined that U2 wrote most of their songs as “very younger males,” and so they “imply one thing fairly totally different to us now.” With Songs of Give up, the quartet units out to “carry 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.”

Within the course of, he wrote, “Intimacy changed post-punk urgency. New keys. New chords. New tempos and new lyrics arrived. It seems that an ideal music is form of indestructible. As soon as we surrendered our reverence for the unique model every music began to divulge heart’s contents to a brand new genuine voice of this time, of the folks we’re, and significantly the singer Bono has turn out to be.”

In conclusion, the guitarist mentioned, “I hope you want our new path.”

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

Within the “After the Afterwords” part of his guide, the singer wrote, “Throughout lockdown, we have been capable of reimagine 40 U2 tracks for the Songs of Give up assortment, which gave me an opportunity to reside inside these songs once more as I wrote this memoir. It additionally meant I may cope with one thing that is been nagging me for a while. The lyrics on a number of songs that I’ve all the time felt have been by no means fairly written. They’re now. (I feel.)”

Bono launched his Tales of Give up guide tour in New York in November.