Songs of Surrender by U2
U2's 2023 album re-records forty songs from across their catalogue in stripped, acoustic, reflective form.
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Rock
Rock is a broad genre built on electric guitars, bass, and drums, with roots in rock and roll. It ranges from melodic and anthemic to heavy and raw.
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Interrobang by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's restless 2021 album, a record of questions and conviction, sharp guitars and honest doubt held together by hope.
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Native Tongue by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2019 alternative rock record is a plea to choose love as the first language we speak to one another.
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Songs of Experience by U2
U2's 2017 album reads like a set of letters to the people they love, an older band looking back with hard-won warmth.
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Pop by U2
U2's 1997 dance-rock experiment, a restless record about faith and emptiness that I found long after its release.
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Where the Light Shines Through by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2016 album turns scars into windows, a bright alternative rock record about light breaking through the broken places.
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Songs of Innocence by U2
U2 look back to their youth on the 2014 album Songs of Innocence, a record of first loves, lost friends, and the music that shaped them.
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Fading West by Switchfoot
Switchfoot pair surf-film images with rock songs about purpose on their 2014 record Fading West, a search for life beyond the routine.
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Zooropa by U2
U2's experimental 1993 record trades stadium rock for electronic textures, a strange and rewarding album I found years later.
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Vice Verses by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2011 rock album holds doubt and faith side by side, restless songs about living with both at once.
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Rattle and Hum by U2
A late discovery of U2's 1988 album, a sprawling live and studio record about America, roots, and rock itself.
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The Unforgettable Fire by U2
U2's atmospheric 1984 album, the record where they reached past anthems toward something stranger, found by me much later.
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Hello Hurricane by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2009 record is a lean rock album about holding firm in the storm, fierce in sound and steady in hope.
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No Line on the Horizon by U2
U2's 2009 album is their most experimental in years, restless rock searching for the line where sky meets sea.
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October by U2
U2's 1981 second album is their most openly spiritual, a raw, searching record I came to long after its release.
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All That You Can't Leave Behind by U2
U2's warm 2000 return to song and heart, an album I revisited and found wiser than I remembered.
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Boy by U2
U2's 1980 debut catches four young men finding their sound, a raw, ringing record about growing up.
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War by U2
U2's fierce 1983 album turned protest into anthems, the record where the young band found its conscience and fire.
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Learning to Breathe by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2000 album, the warm pre-fame record where their best-loved early songs first took shape.
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Oh! Gravity. by Switchfoot
Switchfoot loosen up on this scrappy, restless 2006 album, kicking against everything that drags the spirit down.
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Achtung Baby by U2
U2's bold 1991 reinvention, a darker record about love and betrayal that I came to long after its release.
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Nothing Is Sound by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's restless 2005 album wrestles with doubt and discontent, heavier and darker than its breakthrough.
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A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay
Coldplay's darker, sharper 2002 album, the one where the band grew up, anchored by Clocks and The Scientist.
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Parachutes by Coldplay
Coldplay's gentle 2000 debut, a quiet, hopeful record I went back to discover after their bigger albums.
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The Joshua Tree by U2
U2's 1987 masterpiece, a vast record about America and longing that I found long after it became a classic.
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