Pitchfork

So we're hearing this Paul McCartney fellow will change your life. You guessed it: Natalie Portman guests in this Michel Gondry-directed video for "Dance Tonight", a light, folk-tinged ditty from Sir Paul's new Memory Almost Full, coming to the states June 5 via Starbucks' Hear Music. "That's not a banjo, it's a mandolin," a bemused Macca tells an officious deliveryman (played by "The Office"'s Mackenzie Crook) before beginning a song that sounds, if not nostalgic, then certainly almost memory-full (check out Pitchfork's Chris Dahlen's interview with McCartney here). With an effect similar to the ghostly projections in Gondry's video for the White Stripes' "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", Portman and other phantoms cavort in spectral form, as McCartney blithely takes his new non-banjo for a test drive. Apparently these days it's "Live and let dead people dance."

[from Memory Almost Full; due 07/05/07 on Hear Music]