U2's new album features Bono duet with Dolly Parton
· RTE.ieA duet between Bono and Dolly Parton is one of the tracks on U2's new album, Carnaval de Luz, which will be released on Friday, 13 November.
Bono and the late Dolly Parton sing together on Torn, which is described as a song about broken family ties.
The country music track, which appears on U2's 16th album, was co-written by the band, Parton, and Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid.
Parton died in August at the age of 80 following a "brief battle with cancer".
Carnaval de Luz is U2's first album of new material since Songs of Experience in 2017.
Its first single, Street of Dreams, was released in July, and the new single, Silencio, has just been released.
The album is said to be a collection of 12 songs exploring themes of spirituality, friendship, freedom, and endurance "in the face of dark, encroaching forces".
The announcement comes 50 years after U2 formed when Larry Mullen Jr pinned a handwritten note to the noticeboard of Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin in September 1976 that read: "Drummer Seeks Musicians To Form Band."
Speaking about the album, Bono said: "Roll up, roll up, roll up! Bring your purple socks, your broken hearts, your rose-tinted naivety... oh be amazed in the hall of mirrors.
"There will be loud guitars, deep bass, some ecstatic rhythms, and, yes, some silver tears will make an appearance!
"Because in the near distance, just outside our carnival of light, there are all kinds of creatures... the same imagination that brings us our creativity can also bring us monsters.
"So we make the drums louder. We build a bigger fire. We make our stories wilder and funnier.
"We make the melodies sweeter and the songs, they better shine, because if the world is in darkness we better not be."
Guitarist The Edge said: "It's a messy, provocative, sacred collection of songs - and features the first-ever use of flat-wound strings on a U2 recording. Just saying."
Carnaval de Luz will be released on Friday, 13 November.
The full tracklisting is:
1) Go (Carnaval de Luz)
2) La Reina
3) Street of Dreams
4) The Mirror Maker (Rosalía)
5) Superficiality
6) If the World Is at War, We Better Not Be
7) Silencio
8) The Greatest Show on Earth
9) Glorify
10) Midnight Sunshine
11) Can't Stop Us Now
12) Torn (Feat. Dolly Parton)
Source: Press Association