Watch City Calm Down's Video For 'In This Modern Land'

Photo: Nicholas Robertson

“The video for In This Modern Land follows a woman who finds herself enticed by virtual reality and the promise that she can be whoever she wants to be, and fall in love with her “ideal man”.  However, things don’t turn out as she originally hoped, her fantasy transforming into a nightmare of sorts. The director of the video, Riley Blakeway, was looking at ways the social isolation expressed in the lyrics could play out.  Obviously we’re still a long way off virtual reality relationships being equivalent to relationships with real people, but given we already spend so much time staring at our phones and computer screens instead of engaging with each other face to face, it’s quite conceivable that this vision will become reality in the very near future”. – Jack Bourke (vocals)