A bold, sensual chapter from Amaarae’s Accra-set visual series brought to life by Omar Jones.In the video for the Ghanian-American singer's track S.M.O, Jones crafts a world that celebrates strength and femininity through intimate, slow-burning visuals: a wax buffer on skin, sculpted bodies flexing in the sun, and a lone dancer commanding an open-air gym.Blending high fashion with grounded grit, the director turns S.M.O into a hypnotic portrait of power, pleasure, and control.

Daniel Broadley directs an absorbing promo for Sam Fender's collaboration with Olivia Dean, combining footage of the pair performing on Fender's recent stadium tour, synced to their recorded track. Captured via multiple cameras at the concert at The London Stadium and Fender's 'homecoming' show at St. James's Park in Newcastle, it's a cinematic showcase of live performance, that starts as Sam introduces Olivia to co-perform this song. With sweeping shots of an ecstatic audience and a healthy dose of slow-mo, it's an elevated visual that both encapsulates the tumultuous energy of a Fender gig, and also the tenderness of the song. Lovely work.

Black Bordello present an otherworldly music video for single, Acid Mary, directed by frontwoman Sienna Bordello and Natasha Kinaru. The band are known for their phantasmagorical aesthetics, with their films often featuring characters undergoing macabre metamorphoses. And it begins in a highly stylised drinking hall with chequered floors, where a number of shady characters sip whiskey and smoke over a poker game, like a scene from a classic movie.Raging with a Cure-esque guitar hook, meandering basslines and vocals reminiscent of Siouxsie Sioux, the track tells a littoral elegy about romance with a siren. In the video Sienna enters and delivers her sermon, soon breaking into an uncontrollable fit which launches her and her chosen victim into dark ominous waters, where their courting dance soon turns to ethereal brutality.

Rodrigo Inada, now working as a solo director, directs an extraordinary vision for Celeste, creating a world around the singer that's just as dramatic as her talent deserves.For the video for On With The Show, Celeste is a showgirl in an abstract, dreamlike version of a bygone age, trapped by her own persona, represented by the simple yet effective device of a life-like mask.Inada has created a complete vision - a forbidding world of shadows and light, brilliantly staged - from which the singer seeks to escape. The effect, coupled with Celeste's performance - she's a great singer, of course; comparisons with Billie Holiday are justifiable - is intense. "Set in a decadent cabaret... we find a showgirl (Celeste) who’s performance involves a mask, and she just been told by a mysterious man: 'it sees, you follow'," explains Inada. "From that moment a surreal journey starts, where the masked version of her is left with no reflection of her true self."When I was a kid the most terrifying thing for me was if one day I walked up to a mirror and I just lost my reflection. And I wanted to explore that on this video, what if one day your reflection just decided they don’t wanna be there for you anymore?"I just felt this story was speaking to me a lot in a way - that sometimes its just so easy to grasp on so many things in life but yourself - and it was really special collaborating with Celeste because for her this song was also about breaking free from expectations and performatic acts, and rather been yourself."This video was really special for me, because I finally got to work and collaborate with really amazing and talented friends. It was amazing and special that I finally got to work with [EP] Jean Mougin, and reunited with one of my favourite producers Chris Murdoch. I also got the chance to work with prodution designer Elena Isolini, a really close friend of mine, and she nailed it on the design of this video."Pierre de Kerchove and me have been collaborating so closely as well and he mastered the lights on the abstract stage we created. Aaron Saiki edited it, and Jackson Forsythe did creative direction with me. It’s just the best thing when you manage to work with your best friends. It feels so important for me in this new phase of a solo career."