Five tracks to hear this week (Jan 18-24)

Not for the first time, Brandon Flowers channels his inner Springsteen on a new standalone Killers single. Land of the Free is a gospel rock protest song about the state of America, accomanied by a Spike Lee-directed video that follows Mexicans to the US border.

Jazz-soul collective The Cinematic Orchestra are back, 12 years since their last album, with a new one out in March and three nights at the Roundhouse to go with it. The first song to be revealed, A Caged Bird/Imitations of Life, is an epic beauty featuring Roots Manuva.

Having collaborated with Florence + the Machine and Sampha, cellist Kelsey Lu is stepping out alone with a few solo singles and presumably an album coming soon. Now she’s covered 10cc’s I’m Not in Love, an overfamiliar song given an unsettling makeover.

Scottish indie rock band The Twilight Sad release their fifth album, It Won/t Be Like This All the Time, today, and it’s a monster. Mighty new single VTr is typical of the intensity and emotion within.

Rudimental will release their third album next week, and in a strategy that will only become more common in the streaming era, eight of its 13 tracks are already available. The latest to arrive online is the soulful house of Scared of Love, which features vocals from Ray BLK and Stefflon Don.