U2 are to launch a brand new album of re-imagined and re-recorded songs in March.
The band will drop 40-song LP ‘Songs of Give up’, following frontman Bono’s memoir ‘Give up: 40 Songs, One Story’, which was launched in November.
U2 will launch the file on March seventeenth.
They wrote on their official Twitter account: “Songs Of Give up. 40 Songs. Reimagined and rerecorded. March 17, 2023. #U2SOS40”
It comes after U2’s guitarist The Edge teased a brand new challenge in letters to followers, admitting the band are heading in a “new path”.
He wrote: “When a track turns into well-known, it’s at all times related to a specific voice. I can’t think about ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ with out the reedy timbre of Bob Dylan or ‘All The Time In 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’s true for us all, however it’s significantly true for Bono.
“The very fact is that the majority of our work was written and recorded after we had been a bunch of very younger males. These songs imply one thing fairly totally different to us now. Some have grown with us. Some we’ve outgrown. However we’ve not overlooked what propelled us to write down these songs within the first place. The essence of these songs continues to be in us, however the best way to reconnect with that essence when we’ve moved on, and grown a lot?
“Music lets you time journey and so we began to think about what it could be wish 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 re-imagining. What began as an experiment rapidly grew to become a private obsession as so many early U2 songs yielded to a brand new interpretation. Intimacy changed post-punk urgency. New keys. New chords. New tempos and new lyrics arrived. It seems that nice track is sort of indestructible. As soon as we surrendered our reverence for the unique model every track began to confide in a brand new genuine voice of this time, of the folks we’re, and significantly the singer Bono has turn out to be.
“I hope you want our new path.”
The monitor checklist is but to be confirmed, however some supporters of the band – who’re additionally made up of Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. – have speculated that it may very well be the identical because the songs in Bono’s memoir, which instructed the tales of 40 songs from U2’s again catalogue.
