The opening track on the band’s next record features the Swedish teen Greta Thunberg.
After cryptically teasing the track Tuesday, the band’s first track from the band’s forthcoming album Notes on a Conditional Form and it features. Per Rolling Stone marks the launch of a 28-day countdown to the first single, which will premiere a day before they headline Reading Festival.
The track opens with a moving speed by the young climate activist, over a minimalistic piano track. The monologue about the current climate crisis has her saying “we must acknowledge that we do not have the situation under control and that we do not have all the solutions yet” and “to do your best is no longer good enough.” Much of the audio comes from Thunberg’s 2018 speech at the World Economic Forum.
The band’s last album was 2018’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. There’s still no official release date for Notes on a Conditional Form.
