Alicia Keys and Jack White didn’t have to work to hard to trounce their previous Bond theme song competitors: they just had to make a song less cock-rocky than Chris Cornell’s for Casino Royale, and a song less terrible than Madonna’s for Die Another Day. They succeeded with “Another Way to Die,” the theme for the upcoming Quantum of Solace.

If the video for “Another Way to Die” is any indication, the new Bond flick is going to feature a lot of ponderous shots of the desert, time in a soundstage with digital wires flailing around, and headless drummers. The song is pretty solid, but has a lot of empty space in it, presumably for shots of James Bond shooting people to be played during it.

Quantum of Solace is out on November 14. [Stereogum]