Songs of Experience
Years in the making, U2’s 14th studio album finds the band straining to reassert its relevance in a world where rock music has long since ceded its vanguard status.
The 1990s was the decade U2 gave no fucks. Its output from that era, beginning with the unsurpassed, career-resetting Achtung Baby in 1991, saw the band indulge in its Bowie-like impulses to exhilarating effect. In ’93, Zooropa sounded like it was recorded in outer space; 1997’s Pop saw the group crashing back down…
U2’s fourteenth album, 'Songs of Experience' won’t mysteriously appear on your iPhone, which is probably for the best
The rock icons come to grips with the future – with flashes of their past – on 14th album.
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This companion piece to 2014’s Songs of Innocence is stronger on love than politics, but lacks the passion to inspire
The album generally rebalances the scales of U2’s ambitions, resulting in an aesthetically riskier sound.
Three years in the making, U2 unveil an album full of self-awareness, gravitas and humour – and enough great moments to forgive its clumsier touches
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U2’s 14th studio album opens with one of the most vulnerable and fragile songs of their 41-year-career.