The track will feature on the band’s new LP, ‘The Underside of Power’, which is out on June 23 through Matador. Discussing the song’s tribute to Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old black child who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in November 2014, vocalist Franklin James Fisher said:
"A recurring theme in our music is the idea of injustice and the bitter understanding that obtaining justice in this world is all but impossible - particularly for black and brown people.
“I wanted the song to sound like the Final Judgement in the Bible, wherein the wicked are judged and condemned by the righteous with all the “weeping and gnashing of teeth,” of the damned when justice is finally realized.
“This translates in the “solo” section of the song. It consists of various recordings of people inconsolably crying and weeping while the guitar and lead vocal mirror their contortions. If you’ve ever witnessed something like that in real life, sound of a person’s sorrow is equal parts frightening and musical."
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