Bob Dylan, months after posting a video of rapper-turned-rocker MGK on his Instagram, has returned to relate the trailer for a brand new album from the artist previously generally known as Machine Gun Kelly. “Misplaced Americana is a private excavation of the American dream, a journey to search out what’s been misplaced,” Dylan, the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, says on the outset of the brand new video. “This album is a love letter to those that search to rediscover—the dreamers, the drifters, the defiant. It’s a sonic map of forgotten locations, a tribute to the spirit of reinvention and a quest to reclaim the genuine essence of American freedom. From the glow of neon diners to the rumble of the bikes, that is music that celebrates the sweetness discovered within the in-between areas the place the previous is reimagined and the longer term is cast by yourself phrases.” Watch the album trailer, directed by Sam Cahill, beneath.
MGK hasn’t formally confirmed that it’s the actual Bob Dylan narrating his video, however all indicators level to that being the case, as he posted a photograph of Dylan on his Instagram story. Pitchfork has reached out to MGK and Dylan’s respective representations for extra info on the team-up.
MGK’s new album, Misplaced Americana, is out August 8. The musician’s follow-up to 2022’s Mainstream Sellout will embrace the latest single “Cliché.”