MGMT - Mother Nature

What this video is

Released on Halloween 2023, 'Mother Nature' arrived as MGMT's first single in over three years, signaling the duo's return to active recording after the six-year gap since Little Dark Age (2018). The video's warm, animated world of anthropomorphic animal friends navigating an adversarial collector figure resonates with 2020s indie culture's embrace of comfort aesthetics, ecological consciousness, and…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of the 2020s psych-folk-pop revival, 'Mother Nature' demonstrates MGMT's continued capacity to synthesize neo-psychedelia, jangle-pop, and adult-contemporary warmth into a commercially resonant format. Its animated video format extends MGMT's longstanding tradition of visually…

The director

Jordan Fish is a New York-based filmmaker and frequent music video director. He is a longtime visual collaborator with MGMT, having worked with the band since their debut era on Oracular Spectacular. His portfolio spans narrative, animated, and interactive…