For men of a certain age, Pink Floyd represents a milieu—brooding, melancholy, emo before emo had a name. I started listening to Floyd in high school and being a kid who always felt like an outsider, The Wall really resonated with me. In college, I started exploring their back catalog and Animals and Wish You Were Here became my favorites. Of course, as a designer, I have always loved the album covers. Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis’ surreal photos were mind-bending and added to the music’s feelings of alienation, yearning, and the aching beauty of being lost.

I hadn’t listened to the music in a while but the song “Two Suns in the Sunset” from The Final Cut periodically pops into my head. I listened to the full album last Sunday. On Tuesday, I pulled up their catalog again to play in the background while I worked and to my surprise, all the trippy cover art was replaced by white type on a black surface!

The Talking Heads have released a new music video for an old song. Directed by Mike Mills—who is not only a filmmaker but also a graphic designer—and starring Saoirse Ronan, the video for the band’s first hit, “Psycho Killer” is a wonderful study on the pressures, anxieties, and joys of being a young person in today’s world. It was made to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary.

On Instagram, the band said, “This video makes the song better- We LOVE what this video is NOT - it's not literal, creepy, bloody, physically violent or obvious.”