Oxford folk combo Stornoway have jumped on board the good ship of The Mitcham Submarine (aka Craig McNeil) for this nautical romp. With a song based on Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and a director with an aquatic alias, it would have been a shame to have gone any other direction… Pitching Stornoway singer [...]
Fresh from winning the Best New Director award and Best Indie/Rock Video UK at the 2012 UK Music Video Awards, AG Rojas’s compelling video for Purity Ring’s Lofticries is a admirable follow up to his great vids for Jack White’ Sixteen Saltines and Spiritualized’s Hey Jane and just as memorable. It’s four seemingly disconnected yet [...]
So how do you go about making a music video for the hugely influential Scott Walker? Well why not try something as eccentrically preternatural as Walker’s music? Olivier Groulx has provided a fascinating array of scenes, shapes, slow-motion and looping sequences – featuring dancers, insects, flowers and shoes – to match Walker’s wonderful 10-minute irregularity. [...]
When David Byrne approached Martin De Thurah to make his latest video for his collaboration with St Vincent, Martin wanted to see what happens when a little crowd of people gather ‘to explore human existence’. This involves Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) lying in the road a lot, David occasionally swigging from a medicine bottle, [...]
Keith Musil’s second promo for Twin Shadow follows the narrative from Five Seconds with George Lewis, Jr. and his biker friend from the last video finding themselves at a bar – where they feud over the same girl while fellow drinkers show off their excellent and ridiculous choreography… Twin Shadow Patient (4AD) Director: Keith Musil [...]
4AD’s first hip hop signing Spaceghostpurrp’s dark, uncompromising Osiris Of The East gets a woozy, graphic lo-fi video by Timothy Saccenti, following on from his cover photography for the Miami-Miami based producer and rapper’s album Mysterious Phonk. “When he asked me to create the promo for Osiris Of The East I treated it like a [...]
Now represented by Crossroads Films for music videos – via Las Bandas – Johny Mourgue delivers this exciting and dynamic promo for dubstep producer Joker. Shot over 3 days in North London and featuring a blistering performance from Buggsy, Johny captures a snapshot from the lives of a group and how they are individually affected [...]
The pictures say it all really. Hiro Murai’s video for St. Vincent’s Cheerleader will make you shudder, as Annie Clark (aka St V) becomes a giant, living art exhibit, who starts crumbling to dust as she moves… Lovely, shuddersome imagery – for arguably the best track on the current St Vincent album Strange Mercy. St. [...]
A suitably dark and atmospheric video for the gravelly-voiced maestro Mark Lanegan’s spellbinding Gravedigger’s Song – from the superb new album Blues Funeral – by Alistair Legrand at The Masses, who knew what he was doing when he devised a creepy farmhouse occupied by ghostly women… “Inspired by the song, I wanted to create something [...]
Tim Brown delivers some domestic fun and games for London electro-rock duo The Big Pink’s Hit The Ground involving their cool friends, with experimental portraits – including split-screen action and odd exaggerated facial expression – punctuating the rousing soundtrack. The Big Pink Hit The Ground (4AD) Director: Tim Brown Production company: Rokkit Representation: Obmanagement Producer: [...]
