Album: U2’s ‘Ordinary Love’ goes on sale Nov. 29

Universal U2's “Ordinary Love” is being released as a 10-inch vinyl single for Record Store Day's Black Friday sale. The B-side is “Breathe.”

U2 unveiled its first new song in four years, “Ordinary Love,” last week on its Facebook page. A vinyl version comes out Friday as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday sale.

The track was composed and recorded for the soundtrack of “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,” the biopic about activist and former South African President Nelson Mandela slated to open in limited release Friday before expanding to more theaters in the U.S. and Canada on Christmas Day.

The video by Oliver Jeffers and Mac Premo features a dazzling stream of images. The song’s lyrics are written in longhand across each scene.

The song, which will appear on the film’s soundtrack but not on the new U2 studio album due next year, opens with spare instrumentation, just chords on electric piano under singer Bono’s voice before the full band kicks in after the first verse with a pulsing rock backbeat and reverberating guitars.

“Ordinary Love” is being released as a 10-inch vinyl single for Record Store Day’s Black Friday sale. The B-side is a new version of “Breathe,” dubbed “the Mandela version.” To find a copy, check local indie record stores like Grady’s Record Refuge (2546 E. Main St. Ventura; 648-5565) and Salzer’s (5777 Valentine Road, Ventura; 639-2160).

Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times