Atoms For Peace - "Ingenue" [MUSIC VIDEO]: Thom Yorke Breaks Out His Silliest Dance Moves With Dancer Fukiko Takase

The "supergroup" Atoms For Peace released their music video for their song "Ingenue" off of their debut album AMOK. The band consists of Thom York (Radiohead), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.), Nigel Godrich (Radiohead producer) and Mauro Refosco (Brazilian instrumentalist). "Ingenue" is a great example of the band's overall sound and how they came to it by "bonding over" Afrobeat music. The music video itself is a callback to Radiohead's "Lotus Flower" video featuring Thom York convulsively dancing by himself to the track. Even the "Lotus Flower" choreographers, Garth Jennings and Wayne McGregor, return for "Ingenue." This time, though, we are treated to another dancer, Fukiko Takase, joining Yorke.

The two perform their movements on an empty stage in an empty concert hall while wearing matching three-piece suits. Yorke's eccentric movements are complimented by Takase's professionalism, which is a result of years of contemporary dance. Though it seems like the performance is improvised, you soon realize that each step and gesture is intentional. Randomly, Yorke mouths the lyrics of "Ingenue" to his partner as they move around the stage. The dance is definitely alluring and even somewhat affectionate as the video progresses. What do you think?

Atoms For Peace came together in 2009 after Thom Yorke released his solo album, The Eraser, and needed a group with whom to perform it. From there, the group decided on a name and then recorded AMOK. This debut album brings together an eclectic group that would worry many fans, but it works out so well. Even from "Ingenue" listeners cannot help but marvel at how it all came together. Basically just a follow-up record to The Eraser, AMOK shows the growth of Yorke and how he utilizes his new friends.

PITCHFORK's Stuart Berman gave the debut album a 6.9 rating, stating:

The new record is certainly a more colourful, layered work than The Eraser, and suggests all those late-night, Fela Kuti-soundtracked benders Yorke's talked about in interviews were as much educational as they were recreational. But if the opening "Before Your Very Eyes" faithfully assumes the jittery cadence of 70s Afrobeat, it doesn't seem all that interested in acquiring the same force, preferring to skitter rather than swagger. And it sets the tentative tone for an album that's intricately assembled and rhythmically complex, but oddly inert. "I made my bed, I'm lying in it," Yorke sings early on, a fitting advertisement for the unpredictable artistic course he's charted throughout his career. But over the entirety of AMOK, you get the overwhelming sense that, this time, his sheets are tucked in too tight.