Man Man - Future Peg

What this video is

Released March 24, 2020 — the first weeks of global COVID-19 lockdowns — 'Future Peg' arrived as Man Man's first new music in seven years, closing a gap since 2013's On Oni Pond. The video's absurdist domestic premise (apartment-hunting, green screens, strange strangers) inadvertently resonated with a moment of mass interior confinement. As the second single from Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between (Sub…

Why it matters

Man Man occupy a rare niche within American indie rock: freak-folk absurdism with a theatrical, vaudeville-adjacent sensibility. 'Future Peg' signals a pop-forward evolution from their noise-dense early catalog while retaining eccentric instrumentation (marimba, goofy percussion). The video…

The director

Stephanie Ward is a Los Angeles-based director and producer with credits spanning music video, short film, and television. Her IMDB-listed credits include the TV series LSD: Live Super Deluxe (2016–2017), the short film Wedding Dance (2015), and the TV…