A gorgeously-shot video for The XX’s Chained – second single from the new album Coexist – by super-talented young director Young Replicant, sees the band surprisingly reconfigured in action mode, but still maintaining their aura of mystique. Romy Madley Croft sinks into watery depths, then bandmate Oliver Sim leaps in to go to her aid, [...]
Grizzly Bear are back with a new album, Shields, and maintaining their tradition of working with the cream of young video directing talent (former collaborators include Encyclopedia Pictura, Patrick Daughters and Alison Schulnik), directing duties for the video for Yet Again have gone to Emily Kai Bock – whose last music video was a work [...]
The latest Creators Project puts together British electronic champs Hot Chip with Danny Perez, best known for his collaborations with Animal Collective, particularly the visual album ODDSAC – and the results are an odd and opaque take on the Frankenstein myth. In the first part the scientist/master dismantles his beautiful creation, filling the luminous, gooey [...]
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 [...]
Daniels Kwan and Scheinart have rapidly established a reputation as masters of beautifully orchestrated chaos and pratfall violence. Their video for Battles’ My Machines has those elements – but it’s also a different kind of thing from their previous work. It features Gary Numan, and two escalators, and its awesome. You will take the stairs [...]
