New Peter, Bjorn & John Video - "Lay It Down"

PB&J are set to move past the largely instrumental Seaside Rock with their fifth album, the official real-deal followup to Writer's Block. In order to get you excited about it, the Swedes put together a strange West Side Story-sorta video. It opens with a ha-ha snippet of "Young Folks" in a basement dance party; the lyrics get a tad less twee when the emotions start to swell. If you're not allowed to blast songs at work with "shut the fuck up" repeated in the lyrics, plug in the headphones for this one. They don't mention the actual title, so we'll call it "Hey (Shut The Fuck Up Boy)" until we're told told otherwise. (UPDATE: it's called "Lay It Down," and the vid is directed by Sandra Froberg.) Keep your eyes peeled for the Rickroll.

Didn't catch Rick? In the beginning, in the DJ's crate, you might've spotted this. Once we get a date and name for the new record, we'll pass it along.

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Posted at 12:54 PM by brandon in Video
Tags: Peter Bjorn And John

11 Comments

WOOOO!

take your fucking hands off my girl! FUCK YEAH

Posted by: frat boy at 12/12/08 1:08 PM  | Reply
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I'm not normally a huge fan of these guys but this is EXCELLENT

Posted by: Miles at 12/12/08 2:28 PM  | Reply
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wow i love this!

Posted by: RodrigoY!Yo at 12/12/08 2:46 PM  | Reply
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I quite love this.

Posted by: vinnie/massimino at 12/12/08 3:06 PM  | Reply
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peter and bjorn (of pjb fame) have picked their top 10s of the year. im suprised neither of them picked lykke li, but they did pick some other swedes. talk about loyalty. haha. check it out and stream 'em on erockster.com

Posted by: blair waldorf at 12/12/08 3:10 PM  | Reply
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I guess I'm the only one that finds it pretty cheesy.

Posted by: shenenigans at 12/12/08 3:56 PM  | Reply
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i'm even more excited for the new album, which is called 'Living Thing' btw, now.

Posted by: Marc at 12/12/08 4:21 PM  | Reply
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song of the new year

Posted by: Vincent at 12/13/08 12:10 PM  | Reply
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Is that Moby DJing?

Posted by: Wesley at 12/14/08 2:01 PM  | Reply
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cool lyrics ... it's catchy

Posted by: CF at 01/07/09 3:03 PM  | Reply
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i'm liiiiiiikinnnnn iiittttt

Posted by: CF at 01/07/09 3:06 PM  | Reply
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