Coming off their GRAMMY nom for last year's epic return LP Cool It Down, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have shared an iridescent daydream of a video for album highlight "Blacktop," directed by David Black. The visual arrives along with a set of upcoming US tour dates with select nights featuring recent collaborator Perfume Genius and fellow class-of-2001 art-punks The Faint.
“Each record has one of these diamonds in the rough that just feels like flying to me,” Karen O said of the single. “It felt right to keep the video as stripped down and dare I say beautiful in its naïveté. David Black put us in front of his 70s analog video camera with the intention to pull stills for band shots. He had me sing to ‘Blacktop’ before I had even memorized the lyrics, I thought I knew the song by heart but it felt like an introduction, like meeting it for the first time. It wasn’t intended to end up as a video and as a return to the earliest visuals from the record it completes a circle.”
Check out the video and upcoming tour dates below.
