“All That's Left Is Love” by Angels & Airwaves

Angels & Airwaves released "All That's Left Is Love" on April 16, 2020, with the whole world stuck indoors, and it's a pandemic song that refuses to sulk. Tom DeLonge wrote it with Ilan Rubin and Aaron Rubin as a direct response to COVID-19, aiming the band's big-sky optimism at whatever came next, and DeLonge framed it as the band doing what it had been about from the start: spotting small flashes of human decency in a grim moment and hanging on to hope.

They teased it across their social media, gave it its first airing on Apple Music's Beats 1 station and then put it out digitally as a stand-alone single. It only found an album home later, tucked onto the Japanese edition of Lifeforms in 2021 as a bonus track, and "Paper Thin" came next.

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