After nearly a year of waiting, details on U2’s Songs of Experience, album release which is confirmed for a December. 1st release, with a tour to follow beginning in May of 2018.
In addition, the band has released a third song from the album, “Get Out Of Your Own Way.” the full Songs of Experience track listing below, including bonus tracks that will appear on the deluxe edition. Like any great rock ‘n’ roll anthem, the song builds and builds from start to end, and features a chorus that anyone, even the rest of the band, can sing along to. The track is laced with words of encouragement—”Fight back / Don’t take it lying down / You got to bite back”—and, as if it wasn’t already powerful enough, culminates in a spoken-word outro from Kendrick Lamar, The album’s title, along with its 2014 companion Songs of Innocence, draws inspiration from Songs of Innocence and Experience by 18th-century English poet William Blake. Lyrically, it serves as a collection of intimate letters to places and people near and dear to Bono’s heart after he received advice to “write as if you’re dead.”
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U2 had already released two songs from Experience, “The Blackout” and “You’re the Best Thing About Me,” and performed a third, “The Little Things That Give You Away,” live on tour. “Get Out of Your Own Way,” “The Blackout” and “Get Out Of Your Own Way” will all be immediately available for streaming with advance orders. The album has been produced by Jacknife Lee and Ryan Tedder, with Steve Lillywhite, Andy Barlow and Jolyon Thomas. The cover image (by Anton Corbijn) features band-members’ teenage children Eli Hewson and Sian Evans.
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The band will kick off their U2 eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour in May 15 dates have been announced, concluding June 29 in Newark, New Jersey.
Details of the album match the previously reported rumors. The record is a companion to 2014’s Songs of Innocence. It was close to completion prior to America’s most recent Presidential election, but the band chose to pause work on it while focusing on their 30th anniversary Joshua Tree tour and reconsidering the ramifications of the vote. It was also impacted by an unspecified health scare for Bono, the band recently said.
U2, Songs of Experience Track Listing
1. “Love Is All We Have Left”
2. “Lights of Home”
3. “You’re the Best Thing About Me”
4. “Get Out of Your Own Way”
5. “American Soul”
6. “Summer of Love”
7. “Red Flag Day”
8. “The Showman (Little More Better)”
9. “The Little Things That Give You Away”
10. “Landlady”
11. “The Blackout”
12. “Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way”
13. “13 (There Is a Light)”
Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:
14. “Ordinary Love (Extraordinary Mix)”
15. “Book Of Your Heart”
16. “Lights of Home (St Peter’s String Version)”
17. “You’re The Best Thing About Me (U2 vs Kygo)”
The release date coincides with World AIDS Day, in conjunction with Product RED, an organization co-founded by Bono that raises funds and awareness to help eliminate AIDS in African countries.
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