Directed by Robert Strange, the video follows lead singer Orono Noguchi into her journey to find an alien via social media. The video gives some hints of inspiration of E.T., to Stranger Things (the singer riding a bike), or even to old-school 80s games as meeting with the alien has a video game component. She ends up being painted completely in silver. It sounds like it doesn’t make sense but it actually does if you get into their universe. Superorganism will be touring North America at the end of the summer and you can check the dates below.

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08/05 Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza

08/30 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

08/31 Vancouver, BC @ Imperial

09/04 Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room

09/06 Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar

09/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel

09/11 Boston, MA @ The Sinclair

09/13 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

09/15 Albany, NY @ Pearl Palooza

09/17 Dallas, TX @ Trees

09/18 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall

09/19 Austin, TX @ Emo’s

09/22 Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda

09/25 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House

09/26 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

Superorganism started as a group of musicians coming from different areas of the world, who met in New Zealand and eventually moved to London, where they live in a two-story house. There, they wrote their first song, “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”, sending each other files from different rooms and mixing everything together, adding small sonic details to each other’s musical patterns. The result was a fluid plethora of sounds including the hooting of an owl, apple bites, samples in Japanese, altered vocal pitches, groovy basses and Hawaiian-sounding synths.

Once the song was completed, synth player Emily asked an internet friend of hers, a Japanese 17-year-old named Orono who was studying in Maine at that time, to record something on it. After just thirty minutes, she sent back the whole track back, adding an infantile Moldy Peaches-reminiscing tenderness to the song, which eventually became its best quality. Half a year later, Orono moved to London to live in the living room of the collective’s shared house. A modern, partly alienated version of a hippie commune from the ’70s, yet based exclusively on the lonely languages of the internet.

“Something For Your M.I.N.D.” was a success. It was included on the weekly Spotify’s “New Music Friday” playlist, it became part of the FIFA18 soundtrack and it reached over a million views on YouTube. During the rest of the year, the collective released three more songs. None of them had the same impact of their first single, yet they contributed to attract a young, ever growing and enthusiastic internet-based fanbase. The imagery they offered together with their songs, on their videos and on their website, did the same: a mix of memes, video games, Tumblr post-internet aesthetics and glitch art that lacked in originality but that was ultimately desirable and appealing for many.

For the whole year, it always felt like Superorganism are a band that is meant to exist only on the internet. And in a way, it also feels like they can be appreciated mostly, if not only, there. That’s why releasing a whole album—out since March 2nd via Domino Records—might sound like quite an awkward move. Even more when one notices that four of the ten tracks that compose Superorganism – the obvious name of the collective’s debut – are the same tracks they released one by one throughout 2017 as the album precisely starts with the tracks Supeorganism released after “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”, the best being the intimate yet dissonant “Nobody Cares”.

Somehow, these songs sound decent and cohesive placed one after another, yet the rest of the album doesn’t add anything to what the singles had already offered. Leaving aside the fact that eight people seem to be way too many to write and play this type of music, the collective’s new songs are a collection of sounds that Superorganism had already used on their previous tracks, reassembled in ways that don’t save them from sounding like simple fillers—and from saving their album from appearing as a mere commercial move. “Relax” is a recycled version of “Everybody Wants To Be Famous”; “Nais March” is an ambiguously rarefied and ambient slow track with a long, unnecessary interlude pausing it; “Night Time” sounds like the incomplete demo of a fast, celebratory finale—though it does make you dance.

As a whole, Superorganism feels like the unfortunate self-celebration of a year that went well, rather than being the worthy ending of a cycle—or the beginning of a new one. There’s hope, though.”Reflections On The Screen” is a delicious indie song with an Arcade Fire-like triumphant vibe in it. It gives an idea of what the record could have sounded like if Superorganism were brave enough to leave their recent past in 2017 and look forward already. Or if they had the patience to spend some more time working on their music before releasing an album. We’d be pleased to wait a little longer next time.

Superorganism don’t want to stop the momentum. While they’re currently touring through Europe, the pop collective has just shared a brand new video and single. The smoother than usual song “Reflections On The Screen” is another cogitation about living and creating your perception online. It follows up the previously released tracks “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”and “Everybody Wants To Be Famous.”

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Superorganism‘s debut album will be released on March 2 via Domino Records.

Follow the collective via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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100. CITY FATHER – “Coquette”

99. BILLIE EILISH – “Bellyache”

98. SABRINA CLAUDIO – “Belong To You”

97. PETRA GLYNT – “Fell In A Hole”

96. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR + SHARON VAN ETTEN – “Omnion”

95. GIRLI – “Hot Mess”

94. THE SOFT MOON – “Burn”

93. J.I.D – “Never”

92. ACE TEE + KWAM.E – “Bist Du Down?”

91. CRALIAS – “Hope You Are”

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90. CHROMATICS – “Shadow”

89. RUN THE JEWELS – “Legend Has It”

88. CARDI B – “Bodak Yellow”

87. YELLOW DAYS – “Hurt In Love”

86. JFDR – “Airbone”

85. SUSANNE SUNDFØR – “Undercover”

84. TOM TRIPP – “Aurelia”

83. SUPERORGANISM – “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”

82. KAN WAKAN – “Still Feather”

81. NILÜFER YANYA – “Baby Luv”

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80. WAKE CHILD – “In The End”

79. JAJA BU – “Sweetness”

78. ALVVAYS – “Dreams Tonite”

77. KIDÄ – “Bone Mother”

76. HÅN – “The Children”

75. ULYSSE – “Mañana”

74. SHY GIRLS – “You Like The Pain Too”

73. GOURMET – “Delicious”

72. SORCHA RICHARDSON – “4AM”

71. MILLIE TURNER – “Underwater”

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70. NABIHAH IQBAL – “Something More”

69. KEDR LIVANSKIY – “Your Name (имя твоё)”

68. MORGXN – “xx”

67. GRIZZLY BEAR – “Mourning Sound”

66. DANIEL CAESAR + KALI UCHIS – “Get You”

65. DILLON – “2.KIND”

64. COUCOU CHLOE + SEGA BODEGA – “Flip U”

63. THE TRP – “Soda”

62. JAY SOM – “The Bus Song”

61. GFOTY – “Tongue”

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60. SELENA GOMEZ -“Bad Liar”

59. ELA MINUS – “Juan Sant”

58. EMPRESS OF – “Go To Hell”

57. SHE Major – “Please Don’t”

56. VAGABON – “Cold Appartment”

55. NADINE – “Ultra Pink”

54. SONDER – “Feel”

53. RINA SAWAYAMA – “Alterlife”

52. SEGA BODEGA + SHYGIRL – “CC”

51. GOLDLINK + BRENT FAIYAZ – “Crew”

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50. CRATER – “Unearth”

49. QUAY DASH – “Decline Him”

48. YELLE – “Romeo”

47. GABRIEL GARZÓN-MONTANO – “Fruitflies”

46. WESLEE – “Bathwater”

45. FOREST SWORDS – “The Highest Flood”

44. KENDRICK LAMAR + ZACARI – “LOVE.”

43. ALEX CAMERON + ANGEL OLSEN – “Stranger’s Kiss”

42. SMERZ – “Oh My My”

41. SASSY 009 – “Are You Leaving”

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40. CHARLI XCX – “Roll With Me”

39. TESSA DIXSON – “Prayer”

38. TOMMY GENESIS – “Tommy”

37. SSION – “Comeback”

36. PIXX – “Romance”

35. DANNY L HARLE – “1UL”

34. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “american dream”

33. LANA DEL REY – “Love”

32. KING KRULE – “Dum Surfer”

31. SAMPHA – “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”

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30. MAKTHAVERSKAN – “Vienna”

29. CCFX – “The One To Wait”

28. KLLO – “Downfall”

27. KELLY LEE OWENS + JENNY HVAL – “Anxi.”

26. BLUE HAWAII – “No One Like You”

25. FEVER RAY – “Wanna Sip”

24. JULIEN BAKER – “Turn Out The Lights”

23. LIL PEEP + LIL TRACY – “witchblades”

22. FAKA – “Uyang’khumbula”

21. TR/ST – “Bicep”

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20. SARO – “Eyelids”

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19. BROCKHAMPTON – “Summer”

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18. TYLER, THE CREATOR + KALI UCHIS – “See You Again”

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17. O-SHiN – “A Revelation”

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16. ionnalee – “SAMARITAN”

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15. Vince Staples – “Crabs In A Bucket”

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14. WWWATER – “My Hands”

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13. Björk – “Blissing Me”

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12. Carly Rae Jepsen – “Cut To The Feeling”

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11. Big Thief – “Mythological Beauty”

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10. SZA – “Drew Barrymore”

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9. Frank Ocean – “Chanel”

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8. Wy – “Bathrooms”

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7. SOPHIE – “It’s Okay To Cry”

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6. Moses Sumney – “Doomed”

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5. Kelela – “Onanon”

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4. Arca – “Desafío”

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3. Lorde – “The Louvre”

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2. Perfume Genius – “Slip Away”

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1. Yaeji – “Raingurl”

Listen to the 100 tracks of 2017 according to the HighClouds‘ staff via Spotify, Youtube and Deezer.