Despite what it may have looked like on our pages over the past few days, it’s actually not Moderat week here at XLR8R. But after two insightful interviews with the group appeared earlier this week, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share the enthralling video for the outfit’s new single, “Bad Kingdom.” Pulled from Moderat’s upcoming sophomore LP, II, “Bad Kingdom” finds the combination of Modeselektor and Apparat delivering a lush and instrospective, but still heavy-hitting tune—with its video accompaniment unfolding a story full of symbolism and drawn in the unique, cartoonish style that has come to be associated with Moderat since its first LP appeared in 2009. Below, the full video for “Bad Kingdom” can be watched before II drops on August 2.