And then it came out, and I listened to it, and it turns out I was right in being skeptical about it because this album was—to put it nicely—not a good one. The only Songs of Surrender tracks that I would ever revisit are: Electrical Storm, Song for Someone, and All I Want is You. Recorded over a two-year period during lockdowns for the COVID-19 pandemic, [6] the album was largely the effort of guitarist the Edge and lead vocalist Bono, [7] with the Edge also serving as the record's curator and producer. The week of the album release, the band announced a "40 songs, 40 cities" promotion, whereby fans could gather at a location in 40 cities worldwide to find a lyrical tribute to the album's songs, as well as access exclusive merchandise and a bespoke photo filter.

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The Edge conscientiously shifted songs into lower keys to better tailor them to Bono's vocal range, saying his goal was to "serve the song by serving the singer". Over the course of recording Songs of Surrender, the Edge estimated that the group created 50 new song arrangements in total. Petridis enjoyed the reimagined deep cuts the most and thought the group's biggest songs "don't work rendered in soft-focus miniature".However, this album does have some good moments, such as "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" and "The Little Things That Give You Away". He criticised the group for having the songs "repeat the same mistake made 21 years prior when The Best of 1990–2000 was regrettably peppered with 'new' mixes – they just aren't that interesting. I was a massive fan up to 'All That You Can't Leave Behind' in 2000 but can't take these guys seriously at all anymore. John Garratt of PopMatters questioned the necessity of a quadruple album with minimal alterations to the songs and lamented the band's shift from previously surprising listeners to being predictable. All studio albums from the group's career are represented with the exception of: October (1981); No Line on the Horizon (2009); and Original Soundtracks 1 (1995), U2's collaboration with Eno that was released under the pseudonym "Passengers".

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The film was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special. Recording on Songs of Surrender began in 2021 and spanned a two-year period during lockdowns for the COVID-19 pandemic.Around the same time, 40 of the group's songs were updated on Spotify with an embedded video snippet that depicted the same Morse code, leading fans to piece together what they believed to be the track listing. After acknowledging he had rewritten some of his lyrics in the book, he wrote: "During lockdown we were able to reimagine forty U2 tracks for the Songs of Surrender collection, which gave me a chance to live inside those songs again as I wrote this memoir.