Thursday, May 28, 2020

Cones - Outside

 

Los Angeles-based Cones - a.k.a brothers Jonathan and Michael Rosen - released their debut album Pictures of Pictures at the end of 2019 on Dangerbird, and today they share their first new music of 2020. 

Outside” is a downtempo yet sunny meditation on feelings of isolation amidst quarantine, and feels like the soundtrack to a wonderfully simple day of lying on the grass, looking up at the sky. Its accompanying video--an interactive, 360-degree VR music video featuring coding and design by Michael and illustrations by Jonathan (who is known for his animated videos for Erykah Badu, Toro Y Moi, Eleanor Friedberger, Delicate Steve, and more)--perfectly captures those feelings. “Creating the video for ‘Outside’ was an exercise in escapism. We wanted to construct an absurd and colorful dream world that we could visit any time while stuck in our homes,” the brothers explain.