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U2 SONGS OF INNOCENCE VinylMany U2 albums experience a difficult birth, but their 13th studio record underwent a particularly extended labor. Gestating for years, possibly started immediately after 2009's No Line on the Horizon and ushered into existence by many midwives, Songs of Innocence appeared suddenly in September 2014, nearly nine months after "Invisible," the presumptive lead single for the record, flopped. "Invisible" is nowhere to be found on Songs of Innocence, yet

produced and mixed by Butch Vig and Andy Wallace (a team that had helped turn Nirvana's NEVERMIND multi-platinum) was not the barefaced bid for mainstream acceptance that surly underground souls grumbled about in the pages of fanzines

In the case of tracks like Tago Mago's sprawling centerpiece "Halleluwah" or the lovely riverside drift of Future Days' title track

" The Killers commune with their elders in a more visceral--albeit equally unexpected--way at the start of SAWDUST on "Tranquilize

" and "Tuesday's Gone" are outstanding

and represented a much more conscious use of the recording studio's possibilities

stomping groove of the MC5's "Kick Out the Jams

Canada and A&M Studios

Zappa manages to cover the entire spread of his interests

The 10-track overview is a fine one

It's also real: On "Next Lifetime" and "Certainly

Wareham and Sombre initially met via their mutual association with Spacemen 3's Peter Kember (aka Sonic Boom)

Switzerland

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