"Are We Alright Again" had a music video made available from 11 November 2020 featuring the actor Jon Hamm in a Greg Barnes directed long single take.
[2][3][4][5] Rolling Stone reported that in the video for “the feel-good hit of the feel-worst year” was Jon Hamm, supposedly an Eels superfan in real life, appearing as a fan who puts headphones on to listen to the track and “becomes so absorbed by the music that he’s oblivious to the chaos happening behind him: Home invasion, the theft of all his possessions, and the assault of a friend who happens to stop by mid-robbery.”[6] E is quoted as saying “I actually met Jon at an Eels concert several years ago while Mad Men was still on the air.
Director Greg Barnes explains the origin of his concept: “It wasn’t a burglary to begin with; I wanted the protagonist to wear headphones and to make some toast, and put a pot on the stove, play the track and completely forget the world around him – then – in the background the toast would set fire, the pot would bubble over and the entire kitchen would burn and break behind him.
Then, in an email conversation with my producer, I came up with the idea that it would be so much cheaper to turn it into a burglary – where items needn’t be destroyed but instead simply removed.” My sincere apologies to Goodshirt for the similarities.
The indie star is reclusive, recently divorced, prone to recording albums about intense personal trauma and psychological collapse...Yet there he was on ‘Are We Alright Again’....singing his vision of post-Covid idyll: all “smiling skies”, marching bands and avian bong buddies”.