{"id":804394,"date":"2020-02-20T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=955389"},"modified":"2020-02-20T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:22:22","slug":"dj-shadow-drowns-in-pop-up-ads-in-new-our-pathetic-age-lyric-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/dj-shadow-drowns-in-pop-up-ads-in-new-our-pathetic-age-lyric-video\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Shadow Drowns in Pop-Up Ads in New \u2018Our Pathetic Age\u2019 Lyric Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/shutterstock_editorial_4411099e.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dj-shadow\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dj-shadow\" data-tag=\"dj-shadow\">DJ Shadow<\/a> unveiled a different kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop-Up_Video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pop-up video<\/a> in the new lyric video for \u201cOur Pathetic Age,\u201d the title-track from his most recent album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The song is a mid-tempo disco ballad that features a characteristically dramatic vocal performance from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/future-islands\/\" id=\"auto-tag_future-islands\" data-tag=\"future-islands\">Future Islands<\/a>\u2019 Samuel T. Herring. In the video, directed and animated by Adam Dunn, Herring\u2019s words appear in a ceaseless barrage of pop-up ads that flood the screen of an old computer. There\u2019s some respite from the chaos and clutter during the instrumental breaks, including a cameo from an early tech favorite \u2014 the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MKqrLGFoK9E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">3D pipes<\/a> screensaver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">DJ Shadow released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/dj-shadow-our-pathetic-age-911535\/\"><i>Our Pathetic Age<\/i><\/a> last November, marking his first album since 2016\u2019s <i>The Mountain Will Fall<\/i>. The new LP was split into two sections, with the first part comprising new instrumentals, and the second boasting a set of vocal collaborations. Along with Herring, the album featured De La Soul, Run the Jewels, Nas, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Raekwon, Paul Banks and Shadow\u2019s early Solesides collaborators Lateef the Truthseeker and Gift of Gab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">DJ Shadow will kick off the European leg of his <a href=\"https:\/\/djshadow.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tour<\/a> in support of <i>Our Pathetic Age <\/i>Thursday, February 20th. A North American run is scheduled to launch May 5th in Atlanta and wrap May 23rd in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dj-shadow-samuel-herring-our-pathetic-age-lyric-video-955389\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DJ Shadow unveiled a different kind of pop-up video in the new lyric video for \u201cOur Pathetic Age,\u201d the title-track from his most recent album. The song is a mid-tempo disco ballad that features a characteristically dramatic vocal performance from Future Islands\u2019 Samuel T. Herring. In the video, directed and animated by Adam Dunn, Herring\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 04:53:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}