Director Jonas Åkerlund’s latest project is the color-saturated, emotionally charged music video for “Praying,” Kesha’s first single in almost four years. In her essay announcing the video on Lenny, Kesha thanked him for “help(ing) me actualize the psychedelic journey that is this physical, emotional ride for the music video.”

Read more at Billboard, which deemed the video “dramatic, eye-catching.