THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “I couldn’t be more happy with these songs,” OK Go frontman Damian Kulash says of the Grammy-winning rock band’s long-awaited fifth album And the Adjacent Possible. “It feels almost like a summary of the many phases we’ve gone through — the bands we’ve been. As a whole, it’s a live-r, more band-sounding record than our last, but the overall feeling is that it’s just us, comfortable in our skin at this point. I guess that comes from feeling like, ‘We don’t have to plant a flag — our flag is planted.’ ”
OK Go’s last record Hungry Ghosts saw the band tour for over five years around the world and release five of their eye-popping, mind-bending videos. Because of outside projects (Kulash co-directed his first feature film The Beanie Bubble), life changes (kids!), a global pandemic, and even a TED Talk, And The Adjacent Possible will arrive as OK Go’s first studio album in over a decade. Reflecting on nearly 30 years of collaboration, while continuing to look forward, the band has emerged with its most diverse and accomplished collection of songs to date.
OK Go set the stage for And The Adjacent Possible with the release of the single A Stone Only Rolls Downhill alongside another stunning video. Adding to the band’s vast catalog of ground-breaking clips — they’ve danced on treadmills and with dogs; in time-lapse and slow motion; in zero-gravity, Rube Goldberg machines, and Super Bowl commercials — the clip for A Stone Only Rolls Downhill features 64 videos on 64 phones laid out as a moving mosaic. The band did more than 1,000 takes over the course of eight days, and the final video crams over 140 minutes of single-take clips into one frame.”
