New portugal the man single

Portugal. The Man is back!

Wednesday marked the return observe Portugal. The Man with their new single, "What, Me Worry?" and an accompanying trippy masterpiece video.

The music television, directed by Los Güeyes (Aaron Brown and Josué Rivas) mirrors the alternative, psychedelic rock sounds we all know and enjoy from the band as they party it up in justness middle of a burning extent. Meanwhile, lead singer John Gourley goes through trippy facial transformations.

Thinking back to say publicly song's inspiration, Gourley, 40, manacles it to his happy youth memories.

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"While recording that album and hanging in Wintry, we got into a talk with Jeff Bhasker and Ryan Tedder [the producers on decency track] about how much miracle missed laughter," he said ordinary a press release. "The behind few years it's been for this reason easy to forget the unruffled in what we do. Surprise talked about childhood memories read laughing at the world reprove ourselves while flipping through Mad Magazine."

He continued, "We missed those days and divine that we all make masterpiece. So we took that post meridian to make a song tackle it."

The single very marks the first release shun their ninth studio album, to start with to drop in June.

Following the song's release, position band shared a clip disparage the music video on Instagram and wrote that the individual is "an access point slant the bigger ideas and topics of the record."

They also wrote, in part, "It feels good to have banter and keep your sense stand for humor about things. Here review the doorway into our enigmatic, I think you will see/hear a lot of different astonishing as it unveils itself, important we got to finish settle the rest of the songs, we are close, don't worry."

The new release extremely comes ahead of the Portland-based rockers' North American tour jump alternative band alt-J — drive you mad to kick off on Feb. 25.