OK Go has released a new album called And the Adjacent Possible, marking their first record in over 10 years. Over the last decade, the "Here It Goes Again" outfit found themselves starting songs and then returning to them months and sometimes years later, resulting in what frontman Damian Kulash tells ABC Audio is the band's "most personal record we've made, I think ever."
"[We were] able to come back to a song a year, maybe even two years later, and sort of say, 'Yeah, I know we kinda felt this then, but I think we can sort of tweak it to make sure that we're gonna feel it five years from now, 10 years from now, too,'" says bassist Tim Nordwind.
In creating the album that way, Kulash feels that he and his bandmates were able to get "off of the, if you will, treadmill of the music industry," pun very much intended.
"We weren't following up our last thing, like, 'Now we have to do the next thing, now we have to do the next thing,'" Kulash says. "It was just we had a moment to, like, pause and come back to this."
With a new OK Go album, of course, comes new OK Go videos. One accompanies the song "A Stone Only Rolls Downhill" and was created using a mosaic of 64 phones, while another, filmed for the cut "Love," features robots operating mirrors.
The "Love" video, Kulash says, is "more emotional than any we've made before."
"It's able to have the spectacle and sort of chaos and DIY quality that our things have always had, and touch, I think, a deeper, more resonate kind of heartstring," he says.
And the Adjacent Possible is out now. OK Go will launch a U.S. tour April 23 in South Bend, Indiana.