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OK Go Share Video For New Single A Stone Only Rolls Downhill

Thursday, 16 January 2025 Written by Jon Stickler

 

Photo: Piper Ferguson

OK Go have shared a new single, A Stone Only Rolls Downhill, and it arrives with another innovative video, something which has become the band's staple.

The indie-pop track precedes the Grammy-winning quartet's first album in 10 years, 'And the Adjacent Possible', which is expected to arrive later in 2025. Commenting on the song, frontman Damian Kulash said:

"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."

The clever accompanying video, meanwhile, shows off the group's inventive, DIY aesthetic, and features 64 videos on 64 different phones presented as one big, moving mosaic. Directed by Kulash and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew's Chris Buongiorno, it took over a thousand takes across a period of eight days to create, with the final clip collating over two hours and twenty minutes of single-take clips into one frame. 

On the concept, Kulash added: "Trying to balance the anxiety (which is just realism) with the hope (which is just necessary) can often feel like living in a split screen, and that’s what inspired the video. It’s the most human, DIY version of a split screen that we could come up with.

"Instead of using digital wizardry to glue multiple videos together, we shot one video for each of several dozen phones and laid them out, side-by-side, as a mosaic of screens. A single image emerges from all these separate pieces working sometimes in harmony and sometimes in discord — the many contradictory parts of ourselves fighting to coalesce as a single whole."

Check out an exclusive clip about the making of the video via Project Management Institute's YouTube channel here.

OK Go will play North American shows in April, May and June for their And The Adjacent Possible Tour. Tickets go on general sale at 12pm local time on January 24. 

Their most recent album is 2014's 'Hungry Ghosts'. They have, however, released standalone singles since then, the latest being This, which came out in November 2024.

Ok Go Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

Thu April 24 2025 - MILWAUKEE Wisconsin - Turner Hall Ballroom (USA)
Fri April 25 2025 - CHICAGO Illinois - Riviera Theatre (USA)
Sat April 26 2025 - DETROIT Michigan - Majestic Theatre (USA)
Sun April 27 2025 - CLEVELAND Ohio - Agora Theatre (USA)
Wed May 14 2025 - DEL MAR California - Sound (USA)
Fri May 16 2025 - LOS ANGELES California - Bellwether (USA)
Sun May 18 2025 - SAN FRANCISCO California - Fillmore (USA)
Wed May 28 2025 - BROOKLYN New York - Brooklyn Steel (USA)
Fri May 30 2025 - BOSTON Massachusetts - Royale (USA)
Sat May 31 2025 - PHILADELPHIA Pennsylvania - Union Transfer (USA)
Sun June 01 2025 - WASHINGTON District Of Columbia - 9:30 Club (USA)
Thu June 19 2025 - PORTLAND Oregon - Mcmenamins Crystal Ballroom (USA)
Fri June 20 2025 - SEATTLE Washington - Neptune Theatre (USA)
Sat June 21 2025 - VANCOUVER British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom (Canada)

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