Michael Stipe has released his first music in three years, and he’s roped in Travis Barker, Josh Klinghoffer and Andrew Watt to do it.

It’s actually the theme song for a show called Rooster, a Steve Carell show, and is called I Played the Fool.

“I’m thrilled to lend my voice to Rooster – as a giant fan of everyone involved, it’s a real honour to be included with ‘I Played The Fool’,” Stipe said.

The showrunners explain why: “Our plan had always been to use music from our own time in college in the 80s. No band was more important to me then than REM… When Andrew Watt told us he thought he could get Michael Stipe to write and record a new song for us, we said, ‘Cool, good luck with that’. We knew this would never happen. But a few months later, Andrew sent an early demo of ‘I Played the Fool’. And when I listened to it on my phone, I cried. I really did. Saying we are excited to have this great song and this iconic voice on our main title is a huge understatement.”

It’s a solid song.