“Blue Wall” is the third single and also the tenth track off Issues' second album Headspace. This song is about police brutality, first played at the 2016 Self-Help Fest.

Bassist Skyler Acord posted about the song on his personal Facebook page. The “short version” is written below:

“Dedicated to the victims of overzealous police violence. Black lives do matter.”
Unsurprisingly, this string of events caused a bit of controversy amongst those that follow our music. Why was this band, known for heavy jams and goofy vibes, dealing with something so divisive and dark? First, I’ll tell you why police violence against colored people is real and how the system is part of it, then I’ll tell you why it matters.

To be a good cop, you have to do your civic duty. Your civic duty, built on years of systematic racism and unchecked capitalism, outlines things that we as citizens would describe as a “bad cop.” This plus the “blue wall of silence” makes it impossible to discipline bad cops. So the problem lies not in the police themselves, but the system that puts them there and describes their duty. This is a huge deal because it changes the problem from an issue of a “few bad apples” to an infection of evil throughout that silences the good cops and empowers the bad.