LCD Soundsystem’s new music video is basically a Rian Johnson short film

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After a brief, exclusive sojourn on Tidal (something that still happens in 2018, apparently) the music video for LCD Soundsystem’s new single (another thing that still happens in 2018, apparently!) is now available to watch on YouTube. Whether you love or could leave LCD Soundsystem is almost irrelevant here, though, because the song, “oh baby,” has mostly become a backdrop for other stars. Namely, Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, Sissy Spacek, and David Strathairn.

Johnson uses the song’s nearly six-minute length to tell a simple story about complex things. Love is, perhaps unsurprisingly, one of them — but so is teleportation. Also, there’s a chicken (named Garlic). If projects like this are all we get from Johnson u...

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