The Killers have returned today with a new single. Listen to “Land of the Free” below. The new song is their first new music since their 2017 album Wonderful Wonderful.
On the track, 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 also sings about President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall:
And down at the border
They’re gonna put up a wall
Concrete and rebar steel beams
(I’m standing, crying)
High enough to keep all those filthy hands off
Of our hopes and our dreams
(I’m standing, crying)
People who just want the same things we do
In the land of the free
Last year, the Killers released a career spanning retrospective vinyl box set, which featured all of their studio albums and the first vinyl pressing 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 film Vice.
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