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  Seven Songs for the Week #106

  Jason Carty

  It's when you stop waiting for a OKGo record, that an OKGo record comes along, a decade after the last.

  Imagine a time, mid-00s... I used to go see Bug in the NFT/BFI in London when it was called Antenna. This was a cinema presentation of cutting edge music videos. At the end of the selection one evening, A Million Ways by OKGo came on and I thought it was the greatest. It was a very early viral YouTube video of the OKGo guys larking in their backyard doing a one-take dance. It meant that my pump was primed for when they properly broke through a few months later with Here It Goes Again, you know, the video where they're each on treadmills.

  The OKGo videos would have higher budgets, but they were always worth checking out and if you haven't seen Upside Down & Inside Out (zero gravity), I Won't Let You Down (drones and personal mobility vehicles), or This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine) then stop what you're doing and go to You Tube.

  Unexpectedly, on Mastodon, someone posted the new OKGo video and it's another one take marvel of robots and real world kaleidoscopes - just go look at it. A new album has come out too, which I haven't listened to yet. But it's nice to have them back. And they look ten years older. Oh well.

  The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9BRl7DVSM