Matt Maude delivers this mammoth and hugely cinematic promo – shot in 3 cities and the Californian desert – for Don Diablo’s insanely catchy Give It All, centred around the strange phenomena known as ‘lightening flowers’. Produced under the Left Eye Blind banner – the division of The Blind Club that focuses on music promos [...]
Warren Fu delivers a richly photographed voyeuristic-type monochrome promo for Depeche Mode’s Soothe My Soul, with an aspect ratio that feels like you’re viewing the action through a peep-hole. The band play in shadows intercut with fleeting glimpses of nudity, wet skin, snakes and close-ups all adding to a tense, intimate atmosphere. Depeche Mode Soothe [...]
An unmistakeable slab of Daniels’ virtuosity graces the video for Passion Pit’s Cry Like A Ghost – about a girl who’s on an emotional rollercoaster – and physically swinging from guy to guy during the course of the video. It almost resembles a horror film at first, shot in a dark forest, but the characteristic [...]
Depeche Mode are back, with a surprise: Heaven, first single from forthcoming album Delta Machine, is a mighty pop tune, and Timothy Saccenti’s video is a straight-ahead performance video of the band, shot appropriately enough in an abandoned church in New Orleans, embellished with live projections and imagery that touch upon a voodoo theme. The [...]
In his ridiculous but amazing promo for Passion Pit’s Carried Away, Carlos Lopez Estrada charts a group of party animals as they try out some new multicoloured drug – one with startling results. Once ingested and then ignited with a match, the user literally explodes into clones of himself – to brilliant effect… How did [...]
Having directed a couple of big Hollywood movies, The Road and Lawless, perhaps its no surprise that John Hillcoat’s video for How To Destroy Angels’ Ice Age, released late last year, is a peerlessly cinematic video and no less dramatic for being, for the most part, a straight performance. But the beautiful cinematography by Linus [...]
Chicago pop-dance trio Krewella join forces with Bryan Schlam for a ruckus in the promo to Alive – from their forthcoming Play Harder EP. Bryan, who has helmed visuals for Swedish House Mafia and Lykke Li, shoots the band as they take over an abandoned house, indulge in a bit of graffiti, build a bonfire [...]
Emile Rafael takes us on a trip around night-time London in this cool stop-motion extravaganza to Katy B’s Got Paid single. Using literally thousands of shots in an exhaustive sequence, Emile contemplates the staccato soundtrack perfectly. “I wanted to celebrate London and its current and vibrant night-life in this video” explains Emile. “I was after [...]
Odd Future associate Earl Sweatshirt is in reflective mood in Hiro Murai’s low-key, atmospheric, trippy and beautifully shot video for Chum. Excellent work by DoP Larkin Seiple – and another fine addition to this year’s gallery of utterly mashed hip-hop stars in music vids. Earl Sweatshirt Chum (Columbia) Director: Hiro Murai Production Company: Doomsday Entertainment [...]
Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos wants his band’s music videos to look more like short films, while David Wilson has wanted to direct a film from a bouncing perspective ever since he saw Osamu Tezuka’s Jumping animation. Now artist and director have combined to achieve mutual satisfaction for Take A Walk from the forthcoming Passion [...]
