After getting bumped back a month, The Strokes’ seventh album Reality Awaits will drop at the end of July. In the meantime, its lead single “Going Shopping” is getting the video treatment today with an homage to Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” coincidentally released ahead of the songwriter’s own seventh solo album almost exactly 40 years ago. Co-created by Lorne Michaels, Simon’s video featured Chevy Chase lip syncing to the song alongside Simons, whereas The Strokes’ video sees them landing a dream collaborator of their own: Walton Goggins, a man we remembered fondly from his role on that HBO series we all watched last year (if not just for his hairline) before his seemingly AI-written Walmart spots started driving us crazy (why is he telling a horse “They don’t know the first thing about you”? What does that mean?).
Filmed on the Spanish isle of Tenerife a month after the single was released in April, the clip features Goggins filling the role of the charismatic frontman as Julian Casablancas sits watching. Check it out below, and await Reality Awaits’s release on July 24.
