The pent-up emo fury of Enter Shikari finds superb expression through the distinctive rotoscope- plus style of Annex director Joseph Pierce.
It’s Joseph’s first video, but after his short films Family Portrait and the award-winning Stand Up, in which he reveals the dark psychology lying beneath reality by meticulously illustrating over live action pictures and [...]
Jay-Z’s fifth single from The Blueprint 3 brings Sam Brown back to promos – he’s now usually occupied making ads – to make a compelling, bold and beautiful take on the hip-hop video.
Packed with stunning imagery, and intriguing characters, it’s essentially a series of seemingly disconnected portraits and setpieces. And the video has been [...]
New official video for Anglo-Swedish outfit Fanfarlo’s ode to sci-fi writer Harold T Wilkins (now they’ve signed to Atlantic in the US) by the talented Alma Har’el of Beirut’s Elephant Gun and Jack Penate’s Tonight Today fame.
Alma adds some shadows and fog to her favoured middle-European sensibility, as the band communicate telepathically in the woods [...]
One hell of a night on the tiles with Plan B – the charismatic Ben Drew, fresh from his success in Harry Brown – and his crew (including female lead Kaya Scodelario, from Skins), brilliantly captured by Dan Wolfe, and his crew.
Breathless, relentless… one hell of a video.
Plan B
Stay Too Long (Atlantic)
Director: Daniel Wolfe
Prod [...]
Post-apocalyptic fun from Bob Harlow with a group of mutated survivor-dancers keen to bust a move for Doctors Primary 1 and Riton – and share around that nice radiation sickness.
Bob and DoP Steve Annis round it off with a suitably off-colour, degraded video look.
Primary 1 & Riton
Radiates (Atlantic Records)
Director: Bob Harlow
Prod co: Stitchthat
Producer: Rachel Dargavel
DoP: [...]
A clay, stop-animated Paolo Nutini is brilliantly integrated into the real world in Corin Hardy’s hugely entertaining, beautifully-made new video for Paolo, created with the help of animators who worked on Fantastic Mr Fox.
Big trouble is just around the corner for our malleable chap, on account of his Stone Age attitude towards the girls [...]
After his outstanding videos for Moray McLaren and We Have Band, David Wilson continues his stunning introduction to music videos with a proper biggie for Little Boots. And David once more applies his mirror-based ingenuity, for more visual wonderment, this time on a kaleidoscopic theme.
David connects Little Boots distinctive sense and sensibility with something [...]
Smug and odious banker-type gets his just desserts in Shane Davey’s passionate new video for Enter Shikari, his follow-up to Juggernauts.
You can tell that the highly effective mass-harassment technique comes straight for the heart, and the vid – shot by Chris Sabogal – looks great. Just a pity it’s not real life.
Enter Shikari
No Sleep Tonight [...]
In Your Face has photos from the Final Cut and Soundtree’s summer bash last Thursday night, including what Tim Nash calls “the funniest photo I have ever taken”…
Sorry Tim, we just had to show the folks…
Actually not just the funniest, surely the most unfeasible.
How is this just one picture? Unless you can really now get [...]
Paolo provides the entertainment on a truly joyous occasion in Nez’s latest. It’s a Mexican wedding party, although it was actually shot in Havana.
And this version of a very sweet video has added spice: it’s Nez’s notably sexual director’s cut…
Paolo Nutini
Candy (Atlantic)
Prod co: Colonel Blimp
Director: Nez
Producer: Georgina Filmore
Executive Producer: John Hassay
DoP: Eric Madisson
Art Director: Erick [...]
