In Jamiroquai’s dark future, only terrible headwear remains

When we think Jamiroquai, we tend to think of acid-jazz noodling and relentlessly regrettable headwear. But only half of that Grammy-winning formula is intact in the band’s latest video, “Automotan,” which it released today by way of announcing a new album of the same name. The video sees a man (presumably the band’s frontman, Jay Kay) wearing what we can only describe as a “digital anime helmet,” wandering a wasteland with his white plastic head-spines at the ready. (Not even Jamiroquai is immune to the allure of the post-apocalypse at this point.) The music, meanwhile, goes heavily in an electronic direction, although there’s also some cyber-rapping that pops up at the end.