New U2 album due Nov. 18

And it's supposedly called No Line on the Horizon. Produced by prominent members of the band's career producers: Steve Lilywhite, Daniel Lanois, and of course, Brian Eno. Recorded largely in Morocco.

Sounds like another one of the band's curveballs, judging from the title of the first single, "Sexy Boots," and from much at www.atu2.com, one of the great fan websites for one of the greatest bands.

Other songs include "The Cedars of Lebanon," supposedly inspired by Jimi Hendrix, "Moment of Surrender," which Eno told fans in June was "the best thing" he's recorded with U2, "For Your Love," "One Bird," and four songs supposedly left off How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Not sure what that last bit portends, but this is of course a track list cobbled together from sometimes thin evidence (but sometimes from interviews with the band members and producers).

In June, when recording finished, Daniel Lanois told a Montreal paper, "It's going to push the known limits in the sound arena, the way Achtung Baby did." He also told a radio interviewer, "It's one of the great, innovative records from U2." About 10 tracks for the album were recorded in Fez, Morocco, and the band reportedly used local fiddlers and percussionists.

Here's a six-minute collection of clips from the making of the new album; there are some nice moments of the band working - which includes talking as much as playing - but it gives little idea of what the album MIGHT sound like. If you're short on time, be sure at least to fast forward to 2:30.