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Andrew Law

The third song released from Benjamin Clementine's forthcoming third studio album&nbsp;is accompanied by an intriguing&nbsp;video directed by Curtis Essel. It's as&nbsp;individualistic and experimental as the artist's music.In the video for Delighted, Benjamin takes a gleaming vintage 1960s Rover to a sports ground. But not before donning a black Panama-like hat - which will become a recurring motif in this diverting narrative.[imgtoken data:1]The singer then meets fellow teammates - also wearing black hats -&nbsp;and an unusual game begins on the turf of the ground with an opposing team. It's&nbsp;like rugby, but with a hat instead of a ball.The action is painstakingly&nbsp;crafted by Ghanian-British director Essel - who's prize-winning work includes the short films Allumuah, AGYA and Almost An Adult - and beautifully shot by&nbsp;cinematographer Henry Gill. And for those who have not been acquainted with Clementine for a while, it is a wonderful re-introduction to the distinctive vision of the Mercury Prize-winning&nbsp;singer-songwriter.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Curtis Essel

Adam Oyejobi

Biscuit Filmworks

Rupert Reynolds-MacLean

Polly du Plessis

Yuri Galitsky

Henry Gill

Jai Durban

Rascal Post

Helena Teixeira

Trim Editing

Benjamin Clementine 'Delighted' by Curtis Essel

Benjamin Clementine - Delighted (Official Video)

Nathan Miller directs an effervescent promo for Ezra Collective, featuring Sampa The Great.&nbsp;Shot between London and Lusaka - the capital of Zambia - the video for Life Goes On explores parallels between daily life and culture in the two cities, framed by two dancers - Lauryn Bryan in London, and Jonathan Tupaki in Lusaka - who energetically tear up the streets with breathtaking dance moves.Portrait-style shots and cutaways of the hustle and bustle of the cities - including markets, restaurants, kids playing sports, traffic jams - create a buzzing, palpable energy which underscores the bouncy track.&nbsp;It's wonderfully celebratory and upbeat, a perfect counterpoint to the London jazz outfit Ezra Collective's euphoric tune. And a terrific music video debut by Miller, recently signed to Biscuit Filmworks.&nbsp;

Nathan Miller

James Murray

Samantha Chitty

Work Editorial

Lola Cookman

Jamie Hodgson

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Connor Coolbear

Akay Delano

Ashleigh Haines

Lawrence Thompson

Teresa Ndovi

Davison Mbewe

Samuel Sibanda

Alinedy Michelle Mwansa

Lauryn Bryan

Jazz

Ezra Collective ft Sampa The Great 'Life Goes On' by Nathan Miller

Ezra Collective - Life Goes On (Feat. Sampa the Great) (Official Video)

Hannah Mason attempts to revive Lewis Walker in this outstanding&nbsp;dance piece directed by Saskia Dixie for Alt-J's The Actor.The song was inspired by the story of the death of John Belushi, and Mason and Walker's brilliant pas a deux&nbsp;applies its own reinterpretation.&nbsp;* Nominated in Best Choreography in a Video at The UK Music Video Awards 2022&nbsp;

Saskia Dixie

Frankie Willcock

Pundersons Gardens

Tom Viney

Grace Conway

Gabriel O’Donohoe

Peter Bishop

Mike Linforth

Rory Power

Ryan Delahunty

Adrian Greenfield

Nichola Farnan

Lauren Webster

Rana Fadavi

John O’Riordan

Lewis Walker

Hannah Mason

Alt-J 'The Actor' by Saskia Dixie

alt-J - The Actor (Official Video)

James Murray creates an evocative visual for Wunderhorse - the solo project of Jacob Slater, former frontman of indie outfit The Dead Pretties - for the alluring&nbsp;Butterflies.It's comprised of simple yet strong&nbsp;set-ups that make the most of the interiors lit with natural light, and&nbsp;the urban/rural mix of East London locations, with Slater - who has been cast in the much-anticipated Sex Pistols bio-drama&nbsp;Pistol&nbsp;as the band's drummer Paul Cook - front and centre.Murray&nbsp;exploits&nbsp;his cool, on-screen charisma here, creating a sensibility that's more early Nineties than Seventies - in keeping with the unmistakeable&nbsp;influence of grunge on the track.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Isabella Culver

Dylan Bruce

Jak Waughman

Joe Nkadi

Charlotte Brason

Bella Duppee

Bianca Mitchell

Carrie Sutton

Rock

Grunge

Wunderhorse 'Butterflies' by James Murray

Wunderhorse - Butterflies

A young woman pours the ashes of&nbsp;her beloved late mother into her running shoes and leaves her suburban home - wielding a pole vaulter's pole - in a race against time...Hard Drive Gold, the latest release ahead of alt-J's fourth album The Dream (out on Feb 11th)&nbsp;has a video that follows in the tradition of the band's consistently excellent track record in visuals - particularly those that put a different spin on dramatic suspense. In this case, it comes from a new directing duo, consisting of&nbsp;an alt-J bandmember and his partner: Newman-Wallace are the band's singer and guitarist&nbsp;Joe Newman, and&nbsp;choreographer Darcy Wallace.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We follow the young woman - played by Ellie McCartney - as she drags the pole from her garage, and then pounds through nearly empty suburban streets with it, as if she is on the longest-ever pole vaulter's run-up. This striking image is made even more mysterious by the&nbsp;context - the imminence of a nuclear attack and, as a result, the mostly panic-stricken behaviour of her neighbours.[imgtoken data:1]Finally she reaches her destination - but can she complete her leap before the missiles strike?Newman-Wallace's highly cinematic directing debut was shot by Krzysztof Trojnar, and executive produced by Andrew Law, longtime commissioner of alt-J's videos, now head of music and special projects at&nbsp;Biscuit Filmworks."It was a great privilege to work with Joe and Darcy on their debut piece of filmmaking,which I think is a brilliant music video that stands tall next to the rest of the band's enviable canon of work," says Law. "Biscuit and alt-J have worked very successfully together in the past, and we were thrilled to build on that relationship with Hard Drive Gold. Newman-Wallace has a very bright filmmaking future, and we’re all very excited about what happens next.”

Newman-Wallace

Adam Farley

Roma Nesi Pio

Titus Penate

George Nelson

Sam Barnham

Krzysztof Trojnar

Ian Coffey

William Crafts

Alex Hudson

Lee Parfait

Shaun Fenn

Natalie Roar

Maya Man

Lucy Berry

Final Cut

Alternative

alt-J 'Hard Drive Gold' by Newman-Wallace

alt-J - Hard Drive Gold (Official Video)

Prosper Unger-Hamilton turns alt-J's trip to the skatepark into an acid-fuelled fever dream for U&amp;ME, the first release from the band's long-awaited fourth album.Inspired by '90s skate videos, Unger-Hamilton - brother of bandmember Gus - incorporates inspired use of visual effects into his lo-fi footage filmed at Romford skatepark, riffing&nbsp;on the classic&nbsp;paranoia of the stoned skater, both before and after a horrible faceplanting smash by singer&nbsp;Joe Newman.With gigantic bowls, towering ramps, incoming twisters and&nbsp;crumbling asphalt, Unger-Hamilton visualises some unspoken skater-fears in a mesmeric, dreamlike style&nbsp;reminiscent&nbsp;of early DANIELS and BRTHR videos.And as well as achieving that rarity of having alt-J themselves appearing in their own video, he even gets a murmur of lipsync in there too, from the facially-injured Newman.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Prosper Unger-hamilton

MrMr

Gizem Kuru

Isaac Eastgate

Karl Hui

Nina Mangold

Oliver Craig

David O'Neil

Jess Summer

Sam Allen

Homespun

Thomas Mangham

Black Kite Studios

Metaphysic Ltd

Sirus F Gahan

alt-J 'U&ME' by Prosper Unger-Hamilton 

Alt-J-'U&me'-by-Prosper-Unger-hamilton-

James Murray directs a hypnotic&nbsp;promo&nbsp;for Stubborn Heart's track&nbsp;Everything Matters.Shot on location in West London, the film experiments with multiple perspectives through a hallucinatory car journey.&nbsp;Using a mix of 360 cameras and Go-Pros, the cinematography is compelling and refreshing, and the quickfire edit ramps up the energy to intoxicating heights.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Andi Chu

Jade Denne

One Little Independent Records

Dance

Electronic

Stubborn Heart 'Everything Matters' by James Murray

Stubborn-Heart-'"everything-Matters"'-by-James-Murray

Ben Strebel makes a stunning return to music videos with his wonderful&nbsp;video for Skrillex, Starrah and Four Tet’s new track Butterflies - an impressionistic portrait on the impact of a year of Covid crisis upon a generation, which builds to a simply transcendent&nbsp;climax.With some hugely talented&nbsp;collaborators, including choreographer Holly Blakey, DoP Ben Todd, and the&nbsp;VFX team at Electric Theatre Collective, Strebel channels the frustrations of a generation of youth, whose relationships and&nbsp;opportunies have all been curtailed by the successive lockdowns, into a very contemporary work of visual art.On a London estate, an edgy teenager is a ball of energy as they sit in their room, and when a group of youths gather, the group immediately combine to&nbsp;performing Blakey's intricate, physically demanding choreography. Sheets float in the air, at the Chinese takeaway&nbsp;the youths&nbsp;also play ghosts, covered in sheets - and then the path from gritty reality to heightened sensibility spins into outright&nbsp;fantasy, all within the same concrete world.[imgtoken data:1]The climax of the video is wonderful - and that is partly because you do not see it coming. The kids have now become real ghosts, soaring into the air above the concrete,&nbsp;freed&nbsp;to cavort to the strains of this epic electronic collaboration between Sonny John Moore (aka Skrillex), Keiran Hebden (Four Tet), and Brittany Talia Hazzard (Starrah). This is a brilliantly conceived ballet - created with an ingenious execution of VFX work and camera movement.&nbsp;&nbsp;Strebel has created a wonderful visual for Butterflies, the result of not only his own skill and vision, but the ambition and support of Skrillex. The artist and director&nbsp;had been talking for a long time about working together, and Skrillex took&nbsp;a hands-on approach throughout the process, sanctioning the lengthy&nbsp;period in post production required to make it happen.It was well worth the wait.&nbsp;&nbsp;

United States

Ben Strebel

Ed Bellamy

Christopher Mears

Ben Todd

Sean Lomax

Dan Jenner

Simon Wood

Wolf Wasserman

Ben Manwaring

Oliver Hogan

Kate Forbes

Anna Wild

Holly Blakey

Kharmel Cochrane

Matt Nee

Metal House Edit

James Sindle

Luke Morrison

Antonia Vlasto

Hannah Clark @ Metal Edit

Electronica

Skrillex, Starrah, Four Tet 'Butterflies' by Ben Strebel

Skrillex, Starrah & Four Tet - Butterflies (Official Music Video)

Singer-songwriter Chelou only makes animated videos, and now he has collaborated with one of the most exciting new talents currently working in animation - Cheng-Hsu Chung.The Berlin-based Taiwanese animator has worked with illustrator Ricardo Cavolo to create this blazingly psychedelic affair&nbsp;for Chelou's song Wayward - in fact, a vibrant visual interpretation of the song's lyrics.Chung and Cavolo imagine a world of possibilities for a cartoon version of Chelou: a&nbsp;landscape of random objects exist beneath his double pair of eyes; he leaves the lake where he lives on his legs of fire, transforming into a bird (and a cigarette) before flying off to pastures new, continue his journey of self-discovery, and ending up on a mountainside with the sands of time.It's a trippier experience than his iconoclastic celebration of sexual roleplay&nbsp;in his video for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSzCG2xeUMw" target="_blank">Chk Chk Chk's Couldn't Have Known</a> last year, but just as imaginative.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

Cheng-Hsu Chung

Josef Byrne

Ricardo Cavolo

Dal Park

Dimitris Armenakis

Singer-songwriter

Chelou 'Wayward' by Cheng-Hsu Chung

Chelou-'Wayward'-by-Cheng-hsu-Chung

Ethereal, sensual, and with a hint of darkness, Sophia + Robert create a daringly different type of video for the team-up of those two dance titans,&nbsp;David Guetta &amp; Martin Solveig.Focussing on two girls in the middle of nature exploring both the landscape and each other, the visual is full of quirky camera angles, vivid primary colours and energetic editing. The performances suggest an almost feral presence, as if the girls live out in nature exclusively, and it makes for an exciting and unusual watch.The experimental visuals are&nbsp;enhanced by&nbsp;Frank Dow's top-notch cinematography, transforming an everyday beach location into an exciting haven for the couple, and an inspired colour grade by Sophia + Robert themselves.&nbsp;

Sophia + Robert

Manoela Chiabai

Odelay Films

Gwilym Lewis-Brooke

Joshua Noon

Rosie Owens

Frank Dow

Joe Hoffman

Holly Smyth

Kieran Brown

Tyron Sweeney

Yustyna

Emma Laird

Marisa Garner Associates

Parlophone

Warner Music

David Guetta & Martin Solveig 'Thing For You' by Sophia + Robert

David-Guetta-&-Martin-Solveig-'Thing-For-You'-by-Sophia-+-Robert

Lochlainn McKenna (aka&nbsp;Locky), has created a charming&nbsp;and poignant sort of unrequited&nbsp;love for Keane,&nbsp;which sees&nbsp;the band take on the roles of teachers judging the school’s singing competition, as a group of ‘mini Keanes’ play the house band.The band each take on a different role: Tom Chaplin as the clumsy PE Teacher, pianist Tim Rice-Oxley as the utterly disinterested and too cool for school History Teacher, drummer Richard Hughes as the confused and weary Maths Teacher who can’t keep up, and bassist Jesse Quin as the eccentric, enthusiastic Arts Teacher.The mixture of HD and Mini-DV footage is nostalgic and reminiscent of the early 00's, and the simple DIY style set design is a throwback to cheesy school talent shows (that I'm sure we were all forced to participate in as kids).&nbsp;Bassist Jesse Quin tells us,&nbsp;“our hope was that we’d come up with a light-hearted and fun, but emotionally compelling look at the idea of loving maybe a little too much.” He continues “though it may fall apart, we can find some solace in the memories of what was – “Nothing can take that away from me.”'&nbsp;

Locky

James Cross

Kode Media

Nathan Killham

Hayley Norton

Chris Malin

Karl Poyzer

Louis Vella

Max Smith

Dave Bird

Lucy Cooper

Nil Tomakan

Haelwyn Adams

Leandro Arouca

Element Post

Keane 'Love Too Much' by Locky

Keane-'Love-Too-Much'-by-Locky

Adam French encounters a remarkable version of himself in this intriguing, slightly macabre video by Alex Nicholson.Similar in every detail, right down to the distinctive flowing locks, this döppelgänger of French is made from wax. Not a waxwork, but&nbsp;life-size, very life-like candle... which the singer proceeds to set alight.The process of the melting of the candle is compelling as it is unnerving. But there can only be one Adam French...&nbsp;&nbsp;

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