[tps_title]3. U2 – “Songs of Innocence”[/tps_title]
After all the controversy spurred by releasing the album totally free to every iTunes account holder in the world at Apple’s iPhone/Apple Watch event in September 2014, I too surprisingly found that the songs were already automatically available within my iPhone’s Music app. I started playing it by mistake: I hit play on my EarPods’s cable thinking it was going to resume playing from Spotify, but my iPhone by default started playing from the Music app, the only music I had there: U2’s new album.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the band I once liked so much, whose latest releases I found shamefully bad, has done a pretty nice job on their sub-appreciated new album, Sons of Innocence. After all, taking away the awkwardness of the Apple event, the single and actually all the rest of the songs sound pretty great. And even if they might seem “too old” now, for a band with such a long trajectory it’s hard to make anything exciting and new that still satisfies the most hardcore fans. I was positively amazed by how raw and naturally rocking all their new tracks sound. I might play the album by mistake again sometime.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXJz3C12bWs
Listen:
On iOS’s Music app, iTunes on Mac or PC, iTunes Radio or Beats Music.
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