MGMT are keeping the Loss of Life era going with a music video for “People in the Streets.”
The psychedelic clip from first-time director Christina Marie Karr features heady animations, found footage, archival clips, and clever effects. The blend of surreality, askew reality, and otherworldliness makes it a perfect addition to the visual MGMT canon.
The band shared a statement regarding the clip below, which is as defiantly weird as ever.
“Here it is, the last visual stop for Loss Of Life. The caboose is loose. The brain waves goodbye, components start breaking down. The smoke dissipates. Now the streets are empty. Now the streets are full. What is meant by all of this? When all is not and everything is still, everything moves.
‘The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.’ — Samuel Beckett
“Life is bizarre combinations of impossible, framed by the mundane.
We love you all, MGMT.”
Check out the clip for “People in the Streets” below and read our recent interview with the band here.
