Bruce Springsteen's protest song "Streets of Minneapolis," a response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, soared to the top of iTunes

FENIAN follows their acclaimed 2024 album, Fine Art, and the film about them, simply titled Kneecap and also released in 2024. The band have been outspoken about the genocide in Palestine. The band features Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí. Collectively they had this to say about the new album in a press release:

His concert at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in May last year featured a lengthy onstage broadside against Donald Trump, and his long history of political activism and recording songs that speak truth to power includes an entire album of tracks made popular by one of the masters of the protest song,

Deliver Me From Nowhere has put a worldwide spotlight on Bruce Springsteen’s most difficult internal struggles, between 1981 and 1982. At this time, following The River tour, Springsteen moved back to New Jersey, renting a secluded house in Colts Neck.

Springsteen released the song with a statement on Bluesky, claiming it was written “in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis” and dedicated to “our innocent immigrant neighbors” as well as two people named in the lyrics — Alex Pretti and Renee Good — described as having died on the streets.