First Listen: New Releases for September 16
A bit of stuff came out in pre-release this week, surprisingly. Here's some highlights! U2 - Songs of Innocence : One comment I read said that this U2 album is the best they've done in years. Another, in a comment about Apple putting out a program allowing users to remove the album from iTunes, said that Songs of Innocence is " so terrible it should be considered malware ." As someone who legitimately thinks U2's best album is All That You Can't Leave Behind , this album is... somewhere in the middle. It's a solid album from a band that's been around longer than I have, but I'm not sure if it's really anything world-shattering outside of the distribution method that got it into the hands of possibly hundreds of millions. Kudos to U2 for the marketing ploy, not so much sold on the end result, though. As someone who isn't a U2 guy, though, I may not be the best judge. Megan Washington - There There : At some point in the last few w...