Phone Girl addresses the epidemic of police brutality and will appear on the bands forthcomingWe Are DrugsEP.

Phone Girl also draws on the time frontman Stephan Jenkins spent working at a school for emotionally disturbed children.

Sometimes, we had to restrain kids who were having violent outbursts, he said in a press release.

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We were trained not to frighten them much less cause harm.

The contrast really hit home to me just how surreal and insane this incident was.

/ It doesnt mean that youre anti-white / Take it from me, Im super fing white.

We Are Drugswill follow 2015sDopamine, which was Third Eye Blinds first full-length album in six years.

The new EP was recorded during a week-long session in Texas, giving the group a different studio experience.

It is one of the most freeing recording experiences I have had.