U2 are re-doing U2 for a recently announced album, titled Songs Of Surrender. The compilation will see 40 of the iconic Irish rock band’s songs get “a 21st-century reimagining.”
The news of new music was first teased when fans began receiving handwritten letters from the band’s guitarist The Edge. “When a song becomes well known, it’s always associated with a particular voice,” he wrote in the note. “I can’t imagine ‘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.”
For more, check out this article from American Song Writer.