There’s something about Forrest Nolan’s “thanks i assume” that appears like hitting reset. The tune is vibrant, jangly indie pop, whereas its video retains scribbling over actuality because it goes.
The San Francisco-raised, now LA-based singer-songwriter and producer launched You Make Me Really feel Alright in 2021, a debut mission written and self-produced within the basement of his childhood house. Nolan additionally supported Gracie Abrams on tour throughout the US, and “Summer time Vibe” has since handed 23 million Spotify streams. His second EP, i actually like being right here, adopted in 2023.
“thanks i assume” opens like a Disney sitcom. A brief comedy sketch introduces a boy assembly a lady at a celebration earlier than the video cuts to black-and-white footage from contained in the celebration itself. Fairy lights and a disco ball embellish the room, with an “indie” signal seen within the background.
Then the drawings begin showing. Sketched strains hint across the characters and speech bubbles seem over the shot. A guitar and amp are drawn over one scene, and elsewhere a cassette tape and a mushroom cloud present up towards a wall scrawled with graffiti. At factors, the stay motion disappears altogether and the solid turn into pencil drawings towards colored backgrounds.
Nolan’s vocal stays mild and melodic over jangly, lo-fi indie pop, with syncopated accents hitting between phrases and giving the tune its bounce.
Launched on 29 April 2026 as a part of the indie film soundtrack mission, “thanks i assume” was produced by Forrest Nolan and VITALS and distributed through Virgin Music Group. Forrest and Christopher Nolan directed and edited the video.
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