It was released on August 9, 2018,[2] by Columbia Records as the third single from LSD's eponymously named debut studio album, following "Genius" and "Audio".

"Thunderclouds" was used as the main theme song for the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 phablet promotional campaign, being featured extensively in parts in the company's ads, as well as at the reveal event in New York on August 9, 2018.

The hurtful words spewed by a partner are related to a house fire and the titular thunderclouds formed during a storm.

[5] Billboard's review called the video "super trippy" and described it as follows: "The group travels across pink and purple skies inside a flying red car piloted by Diplo and housing a living Sia puppet.

Labrinth flies on his own personal cloud - a very common theme taken from Chinese mythology - while a mysterious candy-haired girl, played by Maddie Ziegler, dances on top of the car with a Sia-inspired hair-do.