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OK GO DROPS NEW ALBUM AND VIDEO ‘LOVE’

Grammy-winning rock band OK Go, who just released their critically acclaimed fifth studio album And the Adjacent Possible, alongside yet another mind-boggling single-take music video for new single “Love” – Watch HERE

Later this month, the band will hit the road for a North American headline tour in support of the album. The tour will be coming through San Diego on May 14 for a show at The Sound, and I wanted to see if you’d be interested in setting up any coverage (preview interviews, live reviews, photo galleries – you name it!).

 

And the Adjacent Possible marks OK Go’s first new studio album in 10 years. Recorded with long time friend and  producer Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Spoon, MGMT), the album finds the four-piece band expanding their sonic palette like never before. 

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OK Go (photo- Piper Ferguson)

Building upon their catalog of groundbreaking music videos — they’ve danced on treadmills and with dogs; in time-lapse and slow motion; in zero-gravity Rube Goldberg machines, andSuper Bowl commercials — OK Go set the stage for And the Adjacent Possible with the January release of lead single/music video “A Stone Only Rolls Downhill.” The clip premiered on The Kelly Clarkson Show, and earned widespread critical acclaim from Rolling StoneFast CompanyStereogumSPINThe New York Times, and more. which is made up of 64 videos on 64 different phones presented as a moving mosaic. The clip was directed by OK Go frontman Damian Kulash in tandem with Star Wars: Skeleton Crew‘s Chris Buongiorno.

“It’s a tough time to be optimistic. Getting through life requires some faith along the lines of the famous MLK quote: ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.’ But looking at the world unfurling before me, and especially before my children, it’s hard to find that kind of faith. What do we tell them? That’s what this song is about: trying to be honest but keeping your head up at the same time.” ~ frontman Damian Kulash

OK Go made the art that moved pop culture from MTV to YouTube and practically invented virality.  The band has performed at a birthday party for President Obama, appeared on The Simpsons, and collaborated with Muppets and NASA – to name a few highlights. OK Go continues to surprise fans, and themselves, by chasing the seemingly impossible. 

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More About OK Go

With a career that includes award-winning videos, New York Times op-eds, collaborations with pioneering dance companies, tech giants, NASA, animators and Muppets, and an experiment that encoded their music on actual strands of DNA, OK Go continue to fearlessly dream and build new worlds in a time when creative boundaries have all but dissolved.

 

Formed as a quartet in Chicago in 1998 and relocated to Los Angeles three years later, OK Go (Damian Kulash, Timothy Nordwind, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross) have spent their career in a steady state of transformation and continue to add to a curriculum vitae filled with experimentation in a variety of mediums.

 

OK Go’s work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, and their achievements have been recognized with twenty-one Cannes Lions, twelve CLIOs, three VMAs, two Webbys, The Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, and a Grammy.

 

See a fantastic TED Talk on creativity delivered a few years back by the band – watch HERE

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