Song is on band’s latest album
Following its triumphant live network television debut this weekend on Saturday Night Live, Arcade Fire has released the video for “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid).” It’s the second video and single from the band’s just-released sixth studio album, We, via Columbia Records.
Directed by Academy Award nominee Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) and edited by Affonso Gonçalves (Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground), “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” channels the song into a rich visual tapestry of youthful innocence and mischief amidst environmental tumult. Zeitlin’s approach employs fragmented images revolving around a set of thematic ideas — youth, loneliness, pleasure, pain — all converging around unconditional love, and all using wind as the central visual mechanism. The wind is captured at its most destructive and frustrating, but ultimately as building toward an understanding that, like all forces of nature, when we accept and love them they can elevate us. “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” intersperses this imagery with glimpses of Arcade Fire performing the song at its recent New Orleans and Coachella performances.
With its fifth SNL now in the rear view — the band having delivered stunning performances of “The Lightning I, II” and “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” — Arcade Fire will make its second US network TV appearance in support of the project Thursday, May 12th on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
We‘s May 6th release coincided with the announcement of Arcade Fire’s fall world tour. The We arena tour will bring the full production of Arcade Fire’s experience to global stages, launching in Dublin on Tuesday, August 30th and running through December 1st in Toronto. The North American leg of the the trek — featuring very special guest Beck playing a nightly acoustic set — will kick off October 28th in Washington DC, while Europe will include special guest Feist for all shows.
