WATCH: YACHT Release Wild Double Video for "Utopia" & "Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire)"

Electropoppers YACHT just released Shangri-La, their fifth studio album, Tuesday on iTunes (it's available everywhere next week, all thanks to DFA). We've already heard "Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire)", and last week Simon shared a full album stream of Shangri-La. Today, we've got the vibrant, animated, exhilarating music video for the new album's first two tracks. It only made sense to make a seven-minute mini epic to display the two-sided coin that is "Utopia" v. "Dystopia."

Band member Claire L. Evans explains the inspiration behind the video after the hop. Plus, watch their Tiny Desk Concert and scope upcoming tour dates, all below.

[Director] Rene Daalder has been a hero of ours for a very long time. As an artist, he's had the kind of career we aspire to have: long, genre-oblivious, varied, dotted with experiments and rediscoveries, completely unguided by careerist motivations, brilliant and never limited. He's made a punk-rock musical, a futurist web community, documentaries, strange and visually arresting science fiction films; he's awriter, he's worked with everyone from Russ Meyers to Rem Koolhaas.

It still feels pointedly surreal, but we had the opportunity to work with Rene to make two music videos for Shangri-La: “Utopia” and “Dystopia (The Earth is on Fire).” They're companion pieces -- together they make up a short film straight from the mind of one of our favorite artists of all time.

YACHT recently stopped by NPR for a Tiny Desk Concert. You can watch that here.

YACHT Upcoming Tour Dates

07/10/11 Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Pitch Festival
07/11/11 Paris, France – Nouveau Casino
07/14/11 Madrid, Spain – Centro De Arte Dos De Mayo
07/15/11 Metz, France – Les Trinitaires
07/16/11 Zurich, Switzerland – Stall 6 @ Theater Gessner Allee
07/18/11 Stuttgart, Germany – Keller Klub
07/19/11 Milano, Italy – Magnolia Summer Festival
07/20/11 Faenza, Italy – Clandestino
07/21/11 Roma, Italy – Frigidaire Sonori Festival
07/22/11 Brescia, Italy – Vinile 45 Open Air Festival
07/24/11 London, UK – Secret Garden Festival
07/25/11 Manchester, UK – Ruby Lounge
07/26/11 London, UK – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
07/28/11 Copenhagen, Denmark – Trailer Park Festival
07/29/11 Hamburg, Germany – Club Mondial @ Indra
07/30/11 Kutna Hora, Czech Republic – Creepy Teepee Festival
08/02/11 Kosice, Slovakia – Tabacka Kulturfabrik
08/04/11 Berlin, Germany – Puschenfest @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
08/05/11 Luxembourg, Lux – Exit 07
08/06/11 Katowice, Poland – OFF Festival
08/13/11 Detroit, MI – Majestic Complex - Fucking Awesome FEST 2011
09/13/11 Los Angeles, CA – Downtown, 1st & Main - FYF Fest 2011
09/05/11 Seattle, WA – Seattle Center - Bumbershoot 2011
09/10/11 Portland, OR – Branx - MUSICFESTNW 2011

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