Nation of Language share new single ‘Too Much, Enough’ – the centrepiece of new album Strange Disciple out 15th September via [Pias], named as one of the most anticipated albums of the summer by Pitchfork.
In this new track, the band takes aim at the angering, addictive and anxiety-inducing TV news cycles that have so many viewers hopelessly devoted. ‘Too Much, Enough’ looks outward with an effect that is both immediate and irresistible. The chorus explodes like the revelation of a third eye opening, combining a ricocheting pattern of synths with an uninhibited bassline, leaping vocal melodies and an empathic call-and-response.
Simultaneously surreal and hyper present, ‘Too Much, Enough’ arrives with a music video starring Emmy-nominated actor Jimmi Simpson, fellow musicians Reggie Watts, Kevin Morby, Tomberlin, Moldy Peaches’ Adam Green, and Lvl Up’s Greg Rutkin, plus more than a dozen other close friends, familiar faces and even the hooded Strange Disciple itself.
In this new track, the band takes aim at the angering, addictive and anxiety-inducing TV news cycles that have so many viewers hopelessly devoted. ‘Too Much, Enough’ looks outward with an effect that is both immediate and irresistible. The chorus explodes like the revelation of a third eye opening, combining a ricocheting pattern of synths with an uninhibited bassline, leaping vocal melodies and an empathic call-and-response.
Simultaneously surreal and hyper present, ‘Too Much, Enough’ arrives with a music video starring Emmy-nominated actor Jimmi Simpson, fellow musicians Reggie Watts, Kevin Morby, Tomberlin, Moldy Peaches’ Adam Green, and Lvl Up’s Greg Rutkin, plus more than a dozen other close friends, familiar faces and even the hooded Strange Disciple itself.
- 8/5/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Nation of Language aren’t the only folks disheartened by a news cycle that intersperses manufactured controversy with genuinely heart-wrenching headlines. Still, their latest single “Too Much, Enough” is a pretty good entry to the canon, urging us to unplug from the doom channels with an understated chorus of bubbling synths.
“‘Too Much, Enough’ is a song born out of an exhaustion with the 24 hour news cycle and the outrage bait it uses to get everyone permanently wound up,” Nation of Language said in a statement. “It seems the only way to find an edge in the media business is to appeal to our most base instincts of disgust, and we end up suffering both individually and collectively for it.”
Rather than lean into this darkness, however, the single’s music video goes for a classic gimmick: celebrities pretending to be news anchors. Directed by Robert Kolodny, the visual sees Reggie Watts,...
“‘Too Much, Enough’ is a song born out of an exhaustion with the 24 hour news cycle and the outrage bait it uses to get everyone permanently wound up,” Nation of Language said in a statement. “It seems the only way to find an edge in the media business is to appeal to our most base instincts of disgust, and we end up suffering both individually and collectively for it.”
Rather than lean into this darkness, however, the single’s music video goes for a classic gimmick: celebrities pretending to be news anchors. Directed by Robert Kolodny, the visual sees Reggie Watts,...
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