One can invent the dynamite only once ...

In the songs I'm not one that others have already made great in front of me. Suffice it in terms of content to the youth of the band in Dublin is, musically but an arch over the entire work is tensioned.

Songs Of Innocence fits seamlessly into the discography of the band. The album contains no filler, each song would be both lyrically and musically useful as a single. It is this album, as desire most U2 fans, as always quite unlike any other (new ideas, new themes, new sounds) and always unmistakably U2.
Stylistically, you can compare it most likely with Achtung Baby, all that you can not leave behind, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.

Bono's voice is great to bear (who has heard him once live the Pavarotti-part singing of Miss Sarajevo, knows what I mean), The Edge has once again presents a wide range of spherical sounds from the E-Guitar conjured up, make Larry and Adam as always the unmistakable solid rhythm-based, which is essentially responsible for the energetic style.

In addition, this album is quite outstanding, diluted to my Marantz / devil M200 system it sounds perfect: a warm, full sound, perfectionist modulation because I miss not even the vinyl.

For me a very great success, an album that clearly stands out from the hip-hop and folk-pop monotony of this year, I have nothing to complain about.

For special edition:

Which is probably only of interest to real U2 fans who find there but a couple of real highlights: Lucifer's Hands, that on the 360 ​​° Tour in Hannover even as a show opener without text and clear Scheller under the name Return Of The Stingray was played -Guitar), the grandiose The Chrystal Ballroom and a small fine acoustic set of 22min. or five pieces that are on the album also on it. A foretaste of the launching shortly promotional tour where U2 will play some acoustic sets.

The remixes of The Troubles and Sleep Like A Baby Tonight I find rather less interesting as there were better heard.

As a hidden track there's Invincible, a song that was unfortunately a little undervalued and, I suspect, a foretaste of the previously announced for 2016. Sister Album Songs Of there Experience on which it content around the time the band should go to The Joshua Tree.