For the last installment of Will Butler’s week-long project of songs written based on headlines from The Guardian, the Arcade Fire man has released “By The Waters of Babylon.”
The inspiration for this song was a story about ISIS members destroying old artifacts in Iraq’s Mosul museum.
Hear the song below.
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