MGMT have shared the gorgeous new single ‘Nothing To Declare’. Test it out under.
Launched in the present day (January 10), the brand new observe is the newest from their new album, ‘Loss Of Life’, and sees them take a well-known, sombre method.
Quietly contemplative and cinematic, ‘Nothing To Declare’ additionally comes with a brand new music video, directed by Joey Frank. It follows Inga Petry, a pupil on the College of Pittsburgh, who makes use of her rising social media platform to unfold consciousness for the disabled neighborhood.
Within the visuals, the digicam follows Petry, who was born with higher limb aplasia, by Paris as she makes her means by the town to reach on the iconic sculpture of the Venus de Milo on the Louvre.
“If I’m worlds away, I’m holding mountains in my palms/ Starlight ain’t by no means gonna let me down/ Till I stumble like a drunkard again to city,” sings Andrew VanWyngarden within the refrain. “Then I find yourself the place you’re/ Protecting the sanctuary heat/ Don’t ask me who I’m/ Don’t ask me the place I used to be.”
Test it out under.
“After I first noticed Inga on TikTok, I imagined her because the star of a international movie. A sure model of 1990’s European impartial cinema typified by the Dardenne brothers at all times basically follows a human navigating by life,” stated director Joey Frank of the video’s idea.
“Inga has been armless all her life, which lends a distinct type of vulnerability to the easy narrative of a self-possessed younger girl travelling from Pittsburgh to Paris. In actual life, Inga places herself on-line in a really candid means on TikTok, however the ‘Nothing to Declare’ MGMT music video performs on the aesthetics of impartial cinema to permit the viewers a distinct form of emotional fictive house with Inga as ingenue.”
Petry added: “Having grown up with no arms, I’ve been watched my complete life. In some respects, the Venus de Milo has at all times felt analogous to my life, and particularly to the character I painting on this movie. She’s adored, revered, and virtually consistently surrounded by folks, and but she stands alone and her previous is unknown.
“There have at all times been questions surrounding her arms and he or she has by no means needed to reply or show her price. From my perspective, she has nothing to declare. Enjoying this character that’s completely different, and never simply because she doesn’t have arms, however by the way in which she handles the distinction and nonetheless feeds on new curiosity was a extremely lovely expertise.”
The observe is the newest to be shared from MGMT’s upcoming album ‘Loss Of Life’. Set to reach on February 23 by way of Mother + Pop Music, the LP is the band’s first in almost six years, and arrives because the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s ‘Little Darkish Age’.
VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser produced the 10-track venture alongside Patrick Wimberly (Solange, Lil Yachty), and it was combined by Longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann.
Christine and the Queens is about to look on the tune ‘Dancing in Babylon’ – the first-ever characteristic on an MGMT album, and Brian Burton (Hazard Mouse) gives extra manufacturing on ‘Mom Nature’.
Pre-order the album right here and take a look at the tracklisting under.
The ‘Loss Of Life’ tracklist is:
1. ‘Loss Of Life (half 2)’
2. ‘Mom Nature’
3. ‘Dancing In Babylon’ (that includes Christine and the Queens)
4. ‘Individuals In The Streets’
5. ‘Bubblegum Canine’
6. ‘Nothing To Declare’
7. ‘Nothing Adjustments’
8. ‘Phradie’s Music’
9. ‘I Want I Was Joking’
10. ‘Loss Of Life’
The newest taster of the brand new album arrived again in November, when the band dropped the ‘90s-inspired single ‘Bubblegum Canine’.
It additionally got here with a music video, which depicted VanWyngarden and Goldwasser paying tribute to quite a few scenes from basic different movies from the last decade.
