Kevin Bronson on February 28th, 2020

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“Don’t Let Get You Down,” the title track to the second album from L.A. duo Wajatta, is a bounce-house of a song, an airy four-minute pep talk from the inimitable Reggie Watts (who also whistles your blues away) over John Tejada’s rubbery synths.

Animator and director Maggie Jung, who designed both of Wajatta’s album covers, takes the song’s innate feel-goodness and runs with it … to steal a line from a movie, to infinity and beyond. The wildly imaginative and colorful video mixes animation and film footage and stars Monica Suriyage seesawing through some emotional highs and lows, eventually joined by the duo and a gaggle of dancers.

File under good therapy — even for Jung herself, who writes on Instagram: “I’ve been listening to the track while working and the song has actually been helping me with my anxiety and depression. It’s catchy, so when the song gets stuck in my head [and] the lyrics say ‘don’t let get you down … I know how love can be,’ it’s like a cheerful mantra reminding you that it’s gonna be OK and that there’s always someone who understands.”

The album is out today via Brainfeeder.

||| Watch: The video for “Don’t Let Get You Down”

||| Also: Stream “Tonight”

||| Live: Wajatta perform at First Fridays at the Natural History Museum on March 6, along with French Vanilla and Café Molly. Tickets. They also perform at Lightning in a Bottle on May 23.

||| Also: Stream the album in full here