Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso have returned with their first new single in three years — which is being released on their new record label, Psychic Hotline — and announced their decision to pull their music from Spotify .

The track, “WDID,” is an urgent, cutting blast of agit-pop filled with grinding synths, in-the-red drums, and a warning cry from vocalist Amelia Meath: “It’s the northern lights/It’s wreckage all around/It’s a genocide/It’s a Burger King crown/It’s happening/It’s happening/It’s happening now.”

The song’s sentiment is fittingly in line with Sylvan Esso’s decision to pull their music off Spotify , partly in protest of co-founder Daniel Ek’s ties to Helsing, a German defense tech company with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. (Other artists who’ve taken si

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