Talking about the song, Orono says “this song is about desperately praying to some sort of higher being, in this case the solar system/the universe and features friends Joe Astle of Boa Constrictors and CHAI.” Harry adds: “This feels like a bit of a centrepiece for the record. None of us are religious, but there is a lot of beauty in feeling small sometimes. We got Axel from Pi Ja Ma, and his son Paul, to read a little poem about the passage of progress and time from different ends of the human experience. Almost like they're the same person making these observations from the bookends of a life.”
Like the previously released videos for “Teenager”, “It’s Raining”, “On & On”, “crushed.zip” and “Into The Sun”, the video for “Solar System” is directed by AEVA and is another brilliant and fun addition to their catalogue – the video also stars Hot Dad.
Superorganism have mutated and are now based around the core of Orono, Harry, Tucan, B and Soul but World Wide Pop also brings in an international set of collaborators including Stephen Malkmus, CHAI, Stuart Price, Pi Ja Ma, Dylan Cartlidge as well as legendary musician and actor Gen Hoshino.
Blasting back with thirteen tracks that strike a balance between artifice and earnestness, between sci-fi silliness and existential intensity, World Wide Pop is a showcase for Superorganism’s newly deepened understanding of each other’s interests and impulses, the kind of creative convergence you’d expect when online friends start spending time together IRL (their debut was completed before the whole band had ever been in the same room at the same time).
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