L.A. trio Automatic have announced their second album, Excess, which will be out June 24 via Stone's Throw. They made the album with producer Joo-Joo Ashworth of Froth (he's also SASAMI's brother), and singer/guitarist Izzy Glaudini says it's "about what happens to our psyches when we’re conditioned to certain values, the consequences of those values, and a desire to resist them." They also say the album take inspiration from the early '80s -- "That fleeting moment when what was once cool quickly turned and became mainstream, all for the sake of consumerism."
The first single from the album is a bit of motorik pop called "New Beginning," that was inspired by Swedish sci-fi film Aniara and imagines the “nihilism and loneliness” of the rich trying to escape a ruined planet earth into space. The very cool video, directed by Ambar Navarro, plays with those ideas, too. Watch below.