Interview with vocalist Mark MacDonald of Last Second Dropout. What first got you into music? My parents got me into guitar lessons when I lived in New Jersey as a kid, but I didn’t connect with the material my teacher was giving me, although he gave me a great foundation of hard skills. It wasn’t until I moved back to Canada and started with a new teacher who asked me for the first time, “What do you want to learn?” I had never been asked that and didn’t even know howe to answer.

Were there any particular events or emotions that shaped the songwriting? Definitely. One of my biggest criticisms of my lyrics have always been a lack of specificity. With everything happening in the world, I definitely wanted to speak to that with some clarity. Songs like Sanctuary Cities and The Reckoning are direct indictments of what is happening in America right now with the grotesque hypocrisy of "Christians" vilifying refugees in spite of the notion that their alleged saviour

What inspired the creation of this single? As an artist, I felt a responsibility to take an aural snapshot of where society has pivoted in the last 10 years… to hold up a mirror so we can see how divided we have become. It’s happened in my family, and in many of my friendships, and I know people all over are feeling a us vs. them mentality, instead of the indivisible nature of our democracy that this country was built on.