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Rolling Stone
On Songs of Surrender, he reminds you these are sturdy songs that can be rethought without any sonic window dressing.
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8.0
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Mojo
Ultimately, it may be a watershed moment. By stripping it all back down, in some ways, they’re bigger. Print edition only
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8.0
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Uncut
The highlights are splendid: a brass-embellished "Red Hill Mining Town", a languid piano-led "Beautiful Day", a near-calypso "Miracle of Joey Ramone". Print edition only
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Clash
This is a stunning showcase of milestone moments and more from the Irish quartet. It’s a touching journey reflecting on how the four boys changed into men and changed the world through the power of music at the same time
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7.0
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XS Noize
In the U2 discography of in-between studio album releases; Zooropa, is the very best of its kind, Unfortunately, Songs of Surrender is the most disappointing of U2’s efforts in this category
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6.0
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NME
"Reimagining and re-recording" 40 U2 tracks sounded like an arduous task for both the band and their fans — thankfully, there are some gems to be found
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6.0
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The Guardian
In a typically grand gesture, 40 songs are picked by the band for muted acoustic treatments, with varying degrees of success
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5.7
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Pitchfork
Spearheaded by the Edge, this collection of stripped-down, re-imagined U2 songs is a frustrating missed opportunity
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No Ripcord
U2’s songs certainly are malleable. They’re also not as impossible to play as Dylan suggested. But the biggest issue with Songs of Surrender is that U2 often fail to be malleable enough to truly stretch their wings and radically reshape these tracks
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5.0
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PopMatters
U2’s sense of surprise was exchanged for maddeningly consistent predictability in their later career, and ‘Songs of Surrender’ sounds how you think it would
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4.0
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The Independent
Most of these lo-fi reimaginings only make you miss the original more
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4.0
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The FT
The band revisit their back catalogue with varying degrees of success
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Spectrum Culture
Songs of Surrender is tailor-made to be forgotten, to flow in one ear and out the other before passing into nothingness as you scroll through Spotify for the real, better versions of these songs
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2.0
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The Arts Desk
It’s singing as pro wrestling
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