This uncompromising, unremittingly fleshy film for Band of Skull’s storming Fires is a striking effort by a couple of moonlighting advertising creatives, Alex Mavor and Ed Kaye – going by the name of ‘l’oeuf sacré’. A hypnotically watchable debut from Alex and Ed (a team at ad agency VCCP) who clearly have impressive powers of [...]

There’s been at least one previous video for Icelandic band FM Belfast’s wonderful Underwear, which came out a couple of years ago. But then along comes this (presumably unofficial) version by a directing team known as Daniels – that’s Daniel Scheinert and Dan Kwan. It simply shows a few young people dancing – including the [...]

MJ Delaney – recently signed to Love – came up with this great spoof on the Jay-Z & Alicia Keys classic for a bit of fun, and we love it. “Tom Jones, Steve Jones, Zeta Jones, traffic cones – if you come and visit use the Designated Parking Zones”. Is there a finer lyric in [...]

Here’s a well-choreographed, skilfully-composed one-take video for singer-songwriter Liam Frost’s breezy Good Things Are Coming Our Way by new directing team Duck Duck Moose & Sons – that’s Manchester-based pair Joe Simpson and Stuart Gillies. Shot inside the Garrick Theatre in Stockport, it is, as Joe explains, a genuine one-shot, not one of those sneakily [...]

Island’s new signing Kid Adrift has generated this gripping tale of captive terror, a psychotic lady serial killer and an adrenalin-fuelled escape attempt – with an additional touch of toilet humour. It was directed by High Contrast – aka Lincoln Barrett – who’s better known as a well-respected drum & bass artist, DJ and producer. Based [...]

For the driving synth tones of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool’s rocking Jackson’s Last Stand, Stephen Bell lends his dark vision to bring this sci-fi novel-influenced promo to the small screen. It’s slick, good-looking work. Styled by Kate Ruth using pieces from British designer Gemma Slack’s collection, the video also features the work of fearless [...]

This highly original POV video for the leftfield electronica of Vancouver’s Babe Rainbow starts from inside a bear suit. Then it gets much weirder as TV screens showing personalized and trippy adverts invade the subject’s consciousness – his own augmented reality – as he travels from London to Brighton. Conceived by Kent Hugo, Douglas Haddow [...]

Enigmatic, visually striking and utterly absorbing, this is a very impressive piece by Jack King for unsigned band To Kill A King (no relation), casting a bunch of kids and frightening-looking big blokes and marshalling them into a bout of cathartic violence. “The video is about facing your nightmares, in a nutshell, which was my [...]

Claire Edmondson, better known for her styling on promos for Roisin Murphy, Gnarls Barkley and Feist, has moved into the directing world and marks her debut with this low budget promo for up and coming Toronto artist Diamond Rings. Showcasing a knack for more costume changes than Cher in several high school-centric scenarios, Diamond is [...]

Dan Gibling, usually an assistant director, has done an excellent job directing this promo for singer-songwriter Gray Hulbert. It’s a narrative video that really works: while a young man conducts a relentless search with a metal detector on a bleak and windy beach, he is haunted by happier, sunnier flashbacks at the same place. With [...]