BY: ROB HOFFMAN

“Fuck the police. Like we are in Greece.”

This is the chorus of Pussy Riot’s controversial new song “Refugees In,” accompanying a video that was shot in the post-apocalyptic gloom of Banksy’s famous art installation, Dismaland, which took over the UK last September. The video is a dark confusion of rioting, police brutality and rebellion, making controversial statements like: “Refugees in, Nazis out, governments here, should feel the shame, fucking liars, you’re to blame.” The band has been a notorious figure of controversy, ever since the incarceration of two of the members, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, which quickly became a source of international public outrage.

The two have since been released from prison, and Banksy’s Dismaland was the perfect place to make a debut performance—think Disneyland meets Tim Burton. The performance was liberating for the group, finally free to play their music without fear of persecution. It was actually the band’s “first organized, legal concert,” says Tolokonnikova to Noisey. “It is a big deal for Pussy Riot—to perform first time, not in the middle of Red Square, but at an official event.”

As the band disclosed to Noisey, the song was written in a matter of two days in London. Collaborating with producers bretonLABS and Ten Ven, while the lyrics were written in conjunction with artist Mike Snelle.

Here’s what they ended up with:

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