Video: The Internet, ‘Come Over’

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The Internet (photo by Alan Lear)

It’s been three years since The Internet released “Ego Death,” but in the meantime listeners got to know each band member more intimately via solo albums, including singer Syd’s “Fin,” guitarist Steve Lacy’s “Demo,” producer/keyboardist Matt Martians’ “The Drum Chord Theory,” drummer Chris Smith’s “Loud,” all released in 2017, and bassist Patrick Paige II’s debut “Letters of Irrelevance,” which came out earlier this year. Each exploring soul, funk, R&B or hip-hop in their own unique ways. Somewhere along this timeline, The Internet prepared its fourth studio album, “Hive Mind,” 13 new tracks of neo-soul coming out July 20 through Columbia Records.

Explaining the album title, Martians says “A hive mind is a collective ego. When people are together they have a collective mindset. When we’re together we all have a common goal and we move in the same direction. The actual internet is a hive mind, too.” It’s also about promoting fellowship, according to Syd. “After making a few songs we realized that we really want to use this album to live by example and promote camaraderie amongst young black people,” she says, adding a little (well-deserved) humble brag. “We realized that we’re the only band of our kind. And we want to really solidify ourselves as that, as the best.”

“Hive Mind” focuses on the band’s favorite subject: courtship. Today’s Syd-directed video for silky track “Come Over” starts off with each band member deep in text-mode trying to make something happen, as Syd strikes off to woo the girl next door. We then follow each of them into a color-blocked bedroom with the object of their affection. Cute.

||| Watch: “Come Over”

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||| Live: The Internet will perform at Demon Dayz Festival on Oct. 20 in Pico Rivera. Tickets