The Wombats return, dispensing with their chirpy-chap image of yore in favour of full (and rather unlikely) rock and roll shallowness: Japanese sex, loads of drugs, and fucked-up fame. It’s a tough job, etc… Much well-crafted fun from LA-based directing team The General Assembly – who brought us Grum’s wonderful Through The Night – in [...]
Working with cutup pasteboards and assembled with After Effects, French directing duo Jul et Mat translate the hypnotic tones of new EMI signings Howls with this pulsing and alluring monochrome promo for first single Hammock. Howls Hammock (Parlophone) Director: Jul et Mat Commissioner: Nicola Brown
A wounded samurai is saved from certain death by masked spirit-ladies – but what fate now befalls him? A haunting, beautifully shot and quite sexy video by Alex Takacs and Joe Nankin for Baths – that’s Will Wiesenfeld (who also worked on the shoot). Costumes were designed, constructed and styled impressively by Lina Lund of [...]
From their album Every Step’s A Yes, Douglas Hart delivers this strong performance clip for The Bees single I Really Need Love, with projected imagery (by Wayne Bentley) adding movement and casting shadows over the band as they truck on… The Bees I Really Need Love (Fiction) Director: Douglas Hart Exec Producer: Lucy Booth Producer: [...]
Suitably sumptuous and stylish production number for the little lady from directors AlexandLiane. With live projections by Frieder Weiss, the ‘engineer of the arts’ known for developing software like Eyecon that uses human motion to trigger other media. Kylie Minogue Get Outta My Way (EMI) Directors: AlexandLiane Live projections by Frieder Weiss Producer: Jon Adams [...]
Taken from the third and self-titled album Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Luke Snellin’s promo for Collapsing Cities is a sweet, one-shot affair of brass bands, donkey rides, school sports day, summer fetes and über-Englishness… Get Cape Wear Cape Fly feat. Shy FX Collapsing Cities (Cooking Vinyl) Director: Luke Snellin Producer: Charlie Forte Production Company: [...]
Imaginative imitation of arachnid life by Brazilian artist and director Joao Machido, whose previous film work includes the features Sons Of Saturn and The Champagne Club. Neon Indian 6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know) Director: Joao Machado Watch: here
Very British indie band Canterbury get set to release their second single Calm Down and is subject to this lively performance video from the band’s own drummer, Scott Peters. Canterbury head out on a major UK tour next month and have been confirmed to support You And Me At Six on their December dates. Canterbury [...]
The band who arguably made the first aesthetically coherent interactive video (Neon Bible) and the director who invested emotion into the whole technical process (as well as pioneering the ongoing ever-changing, ongoing video) when he conceived the Johnny Cash Project, have now produced the next stage of the evolution of the interactive music video – [...]
For The Drums’ downtempo ballad Down By The Water, Brian and Brad Palmer and the band echo the Phil Spector-esque tones with this stark, monochrome promo. Talking to Stereogum, the band explained the ideas behind it: “We wanted the video to directly reflect the song itself, and be as simple as possible. Both the video [...]
