U2 does little to downplay new album’s title, sound, or release date
As we all know by now, Bono and his U2 bandmates are planning their return later this year with the release of a brand new studio album. With the supposed November 18 worldwide release dates quickly approaching, rumors pertaining to the band’s twelfth full-length effort are starting to spread like wildfires.
Late last month, The Daily Mirror got things rolling with an article reporting that U2 will release their latest project, No Line On The Horizon, in November. The article was backed by a recently registered website - nolineonthehorizon.com - listed under the name of the band’s label, Universal Records.
The Mirror went on to highlight some of the album’s supposed tracks, “Moment of Surrender”, “For Your Love”, “Love Is All We Have Left”, and “One Bird”, deemed by “insiders” as U2’s “best work to date.”
While nothing has been officially confirmed by either Bono, the band, or the label, the registration of the aforementioned website added with the growing number of published reports, including discussion of No Line On The Horizon’s first single and the filming of a music video certainly seems to indicate that the release of U2’s new album is not only on the “horizon,” but perhaps imminent. 
What’s more, just yesterday, rumors surfaced that Bono may have inadvertently given fans a few early tastes of the new project. In what sounds like something out of a movie rather than reality, a passing French citizens apparently recorded some of the band’s new sounds blaring from the frontman’s residence…
Four tracks from the album, provisionally entitled ‘No Line On The Horizon’, have appeared on the Internet. The mechanism of the release is pretty comical - Bono blasted the tracks from a stereo in his villa in the South of France so loudly, that a passer-by recognized his voice and recorded them.
Four songs have been put online including the title track, the first single from the album ‘Sexy Boots’, ‘Moment of Surrender’ and ‘For Your Love’.
The youtube clips of the songs have been removed and an investigation has been launched to find the culprit. Still the tracks are out there and a new album is coming. Stay tuned…
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