Wild Beasts - “A Simple Beautiful Truth” (Official Video)

Wild Beasts’ great new album, Present Tense, was preceded by a pair of tracks, “Wanderlust” and “Sweet Spot,” and now that the LP is available (and you should get it, because it’s really fantastic), the band is releasing as a single the album track “A Simple Beautiful Truth” along with a surrealistic video directed by Klaus Thymann, which pays homage to one of Wild Beasts’ notable influences. Said the band about the clip:

We were inspired enough by the absurdist approach taken by Talking Heads to don electric suits and dance in the ether on the top of a Beacons mountain. We wanted to capture the weightlessness of a song like “A Simple Beautiful Truth,” to attempt something so ridiculous as to be sublime. The experience was strangely liberating and we asked ourselves why we hadn’t done this before.