Beyoncé new song “Rise Up”: Listen to the song from the Epic movie soundtrack here, via SoundCloud.

Listen to New Song “Rise Up” From Beyoncé

Listen to New Song “Rise Up” From Beyoncé

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June 5 2013 3:35 PM

Listen to New Song “Rise Up” From Beyoncé

Beyoncé performs at the Chime For Change concert for women's empowerment in London.
Beyoncéperforms at the Chime For Change concert for women's empowerment in London

Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images for Gucci

Beyoncé has been awfully slow and teasing with the rollout of her next album, the follow-up to 2011’s excellent 4. We’ve had the odd track “Bow Down / I Been On,” which seemed to announce her return, those unsatisfying snippets in commercials for Pepsi and H&M, and, briefly, a leak of what’s expected as the album’s lead single—though it was quickly taken down.

For fans, “Rise Up,” from the soundtrack for the recent animated feature Epic (which also featured Beyoncé voice-acting, along with a hodgepodge of other celebrities), might help hold you over for a time. The song itself, which was produced by Hit-Boy, feels a little slight—its words of inspiration are pretty uninspired (“We will fight/ We will stand/ And together we will rise”)—but it does feature a nice vocal performance from Beyoncé and her chorus of backup Beyoncés.

(Via Vulture.)