Kanye West has certainly been surprising us of late, what with some of the company he's been keeping. I mean, first he teams sup with Daft Punk and uber director Hype Williams to produce the video for "Stronger," one of the coolest nods to Blade Runner and 2001 ever, and now Pitchfork's reporting that he has contracted Swedish indie-popsters, Peter, Bjorn and John to be his back up band for the Nordic, Way Out West Festival on August 11th. Either Kanye's proving himself to indeed be the marketing genius he always said he was, or his mom's finally told him to stop hanging around with gangstas and make friends with "those nice boys."

But whatever's going on, if this video for "Stronger" is any indication of what we can expect from Kanye's forthcoming album, Graduation, then we are certainly intrigued.