For the fifth year, everyone's favorite weird-ass TV network is commemorating the summer with a deluge of great music. Adult Swim's Singles program, started last month, and this week celebrates Independence Day with "Star Spangled," a new track by electronic composer Fatima al Qadiri. Al Qadiri, who grew up in Kuwait during the Iraqi Occupation of the early 1990s, cooked up a spacey, synth-driven rendition of the U.S. national anthem. And if it sounds like it's telling you something, there's a reason for that. "'Star-Spangled' is dedicated to American national nightmares," al Qadiri says in a statement. "On one hand, dark dreams of suburban serial killers and mangled hitch-hike heads. On the other, a false hope of national greatness cooked by covert agendas." So, yeah, think about that when you're grilling this weekend. The single officially drops on Friday, but we've got it here for an early listen.
Adult Swim's Summer Singles series continues through the end of September, with tracks still to come from Future, Mastodon, and Run the Jewels. Fatima al Qadiri's full-length debut, Asiatisch, came out in May.
