“A Stolen Heart In A Stolen Car” is an ode to the

“A Stolen Heart In A Stolen Car” is an ode to the recklessness of youth. It’s about living in the moment, transgressing boundaries, and feeling the euphoria that comes with not giving a fuck.

Its video, perfectly captures the essence of that rebelliousness. Focusing on two girls who have run away from home and rejected the banality of their formal existence, their escape is alive with the feeling of being young and drunk on life, drunk on possibility but also on drama.

Directed by Mate Valtr, the video’s noir influences are readily apparent, from its Drive-like introductory text to its young femme fatale (Dawn Cheong). It’s a very American tale, inspired by the kinds of vigilante love we see in films like True Romance or Natural Born Killers. But this time the setting is Kuala Lumpur, where Valtr, Cheong, and the story’s innocent second lead, Rae Zalani, reside.

It’s no wonder Metropolis America premiered their last video on Culture Brats – in their music is a sort of inescapable sense of the global, the universality of tension and feeling, the grandiosity of a world grappling with the same questions no matter the continent.

Produced by Brian Sperber (Whitney Houston, Patti Smith, Dinosaur Jr), “A Stolen Heart In A Stolen Car” sounds like what the Hot Fuss-era Killers would have made today if they’d listened to a lot of Human League and Brandon Flowers hadn’t lost his touch.

In other words, it’s pretty damn infectious.