SONG/VIDEO PREMIERE: Robbing Millions Lands Bouncing Beats & Eclectic Charms Via “Family Dinner” From MGMT Records

Noted for its obscure brushstroke on indie pop, Robbing Millions contrastingly refrains from begging, borrowing, or stealing musically from anybody nearby. If MacDemarco, Wham, Talk Talk, and Animal Collective got blended up for a stiff drink -Robbing Millions might be the knockout sip. Fabulously though, the band shares a musical heritage with none other than late aughts indie game-changers MGMT. Just how a simple keyboard riff on “Kids” changed the musical landscape, Robbing Millions has filled up their own bag of tricks with bouncy beats and eclectic nuances.

Robbing Millions is the first outside signing on MGMT Records (founded by MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser) and their forthcoming new album, Holidays Inside is out on June 25th. Lucien Fraipont is the Belgian artist behind Robbing Millions who draw from obscure influences  Glide is premiering the new track and video (below) for the scrumptious single “Family Dinner.” Fraipoint describes the song, saying “The intro is pretty misleading, it starts with a medieval King Sunny Ade groove topped with a bebop-ish guitar melody, but the song quickly lands on a poppier disco beat. Check out the sticky track and colorful video below…

The lyrics, Fraipont explained, “are reflecting a glowing teenage angst. I often have dinner with my family, who I love dearly, but as a teenager I often just wanted to spend my time doing music instead. I felt a loss of time, which is pretty stupid, but the song is an exaggerated vision of that teenage feeling.”  The accompanying video was shot in Paris by multidisciplinary artist Leva Kabašinskaitė with an assembled for the occasion family and reworked in the Argentinian jungle by illustrator and collage artist Salvador Cresta.

Fraipont explains more about the single…

Family Dinner’ is ‘Holidays Inside’ opening track. The intro is pretty misleading, it starts with a medieval King Sunny Ade medieval groove topped with a bebopish guitar melody but the song quickly lands on a poppier disco beat. As the rest of the record, it was record between my kitchen and my home studio and mixed/produced by Shags Chamberlain at his place in LA. The lyrics are reflecting a glowing teenage angst. I often have dinner with my family, who I love dearly, but as a teenager I often just wanted to spend my time doing music instead. I felt a loss of time, which is pretty stupid, but the song is an exaggerated vision of that teenage feeling.

Photo by Shags Chamberlain

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