Dan Deacon’s impending new album, America, will come out on Domino Records on 8/28 and is already garnering more buzz than any of his prior seven (7!) albums.   As you will see and hear, Deacon mines the fertile Flaming Lips/Animal Collective musical vein on the new album.  Check out below the official video for True Thrush off of America.  About the video we are told:

“The video co-directed by Ben O’Brien and Dan Deacon is based on a drawing game popular in the Baltimore art collective Wham City, which is in turn based on the game “telephone.”

For the video, Dan and Ben filmed a simple 13-second scene. That scene was then shown to the next team. After seeing the video that team had 1 hour to recreate it — characters, props, set, costumes, and actions — as close to exactly as possible from only their memory.”

You can go HERE to get more information and buy the album.

After True Thrush, next check out another track (Lots) off of the new album, and then a fun slice of Deacon’s live act (from SXSW courtesy of NPR) at bottom (the analog drumming and percussion are particularly commendable).