Radiohead have shared a brief statement addressed to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after the Department of Homeland Security used a choral rendition of their song “Let Down” in an Instagram Reel. It reads:
“Let Down,” an album track from 1997’s OK Computer, became Radiohead’s fourth-ever song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 last year. In October, Thom Yorke said that the band wouldn’t perform in Israel again while Benjamin Netanyahu is prime minister.
Other artists to come out against ICE in recent months have included Bruce Springsteen, who shared the protest anthem “Streets of Minneapolis” following the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE agents, and Zach Bryan, who in October posted a snippet of “Bad News,” a then-unreleased song from his new album With Heaven on Top, that featured anti-ICE lyrics—though Bryan quickly hedged his criticisms, writing that the full song would hit “on both sides of the aisle.”