I didn’t quite know what to think yesterday when the guy on the radio announced that U2’s long-awaited follow-up to No Line on the Horizon would drop the day after Thanksgiving.  How had I missed this news?  A quick internet search yielded news both good and bad.

The bad news is that U2’s next album won’t drop until early next year.  According to this Rolling Stone article, bassist Adam Clayton has acknowledged that the album will have twelve songs and be done by Christmas . . . but that it won’t drop until sometime in the new year.  Clayton adds: “I think it’s a bit of a return to U2 of old, but with the maturity, if you like, of the U2 of the last 10 years. It’s a combination of those two things and it’s a really interesting hybrid.”  So a little while longer for something very good.

The good news is that the band is releasing a new song the day after Thanksgiving as a single with a new version of “Breathe” as a kind of B-side.  And the song, “Ordinary Love,” has actually made its way into the media via the second trailer for the upcoming bio-pic of Nelson Mandela, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.  According to Rolling Stone, the two-song set will be available with “Back to Black Friday” as a limited edition 10″ vinyl record.  You can check that trailer out below.  “Ordinary Love” starts around the halfway mark.