The Killers Take on Border Wall, Mass Incarceration on New Song “Land of the Free”: Listen

The Killers Take on Border Wall, Mass Incarceration on New Song “Land of the Free”: Listen
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, April 2018 (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

The Killers have returned at this time with a brand new single. Listen to “Land of the Free” under. The new tune is their first new music since their 2017 album Wonderful Wonderful.

On the observe, Brandon Flowers sings about mass incarceration: “We got more people locked up than the rest of the world/Right here in red, white, and blue/Incarcerations become big business.” Flowers additionally sings about President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall:

And down on the border
They’re gonna put up a wall
Concrete and rebar steal beams
(I’m standing, crying)
High sufficient to maintain all these filthy arms off
Of our hopes and our goals
(I’m standing, crying)
People who simply need the identical issues we do
In the land of the free

Last yr, the Killers launched a profession spanning retrospective vinyl box set, which featured all of their studio albums and the primary vinyl urgent of 2009’s Live From the Royal Albert Hall. Their Wonderful Wonderful single “The Man” was prominently featured in a trailer for the Adam McKay-directed Dick Cheney movie Vice.

 
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