In April, Cage The Elephant released their fifth full-length studio album, Social Cues via RCA. As the follow-up to 2015’s Tell Me I’m Pretty and their 2017 live record, Unpeeled, the new collection of songs includes a reggae-lathered song, “Night Running”, a collaboration with fellow alt-rocker Beck.
On Friday, Cage The Elephant released a new video for their collaborative “Night Running” tune with Beck. Directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford, the music video stars Cage the Elephant’s Matt Schultz and Beck, while using old-school video technology and dated special effects to tell a sci-fi story.
“For ‘Night Running,’ I wanted to create a realm where a super computer that hosts a simulation program that creates a series of artificial worlds,” Stratford explained in a press release. “While Beck would appear to live within the software as a master control, while Matt would be transported to different worlds and new identities leaving him to question what is real.”
Watch Cage The Elephants new “Night Running” video featuring Beck below:
Cage The Elephant ft. Beck – “Night Running”
[Video: Cage The Elephant]
Cage The Elephant and Beck are gearing up for a co-headlining summer tour, featuring Spoon and a variety of other special guests including Starcrawler, Wild Belle and Sunflower Bean.
The Night Running Tour is set to hit a number of notable amphitheaters and more nationwide including George, WA’s The Gorge (7/13); Mountain View, CA’s Shoreline Amphitheater (7/16); Chicago, IL’s Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island (7/31); Saratoga Springs, NY’s Saratoga Performing Arts Center (8/12); New York’s Forest Hills Stadium (8/17); and Columbia, MD’s Merriweather Post Pavilion(8/22); to name a few.
For a full list of dates and venue-specific ticketing links, head here.