Amason’s Cover of Foreigner’s "I Want to Know What Love Is" Soundtracks a Surreal Yeti Search: Watch

Amason are a Stockholm-based group featuring members of Miike Snow, Dungen, Little Majorette, Hajen, and Idiot Wind. On their new EP California Airport Love, they cover the Foreigner ballad “I Want to Know What Love Is.” The video, directed by Filip Nilsson, follows a man’s international quest to find the yeti. Nilsson said hearing the band’s live cover of the song made him think about his friend Erick, who stars in the video. He wrote in a statement:

As I’m already blessed to live with a person who shows me love, I shortly after the concert called Erick to ask how he was, and if he wanted to tell me more about his solitude? During this call, that went on all night, I came across a study that said that the Yeti (in some civilizations called Bigfoot) is the most loving creature around. Erick could instantly see why, just like him he thought, the Yeti was misunderstood in all its attempts to intimacy. So we decided there and then, me still high on emotions from the tone, to let everything else be and find the Yeti. We travelled for six months and the search took us to Brazil, Sweden and Switzerland. The video shows pieces of the quest, and what other music to complement it, then the tune that started it all?

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