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Juno Calypso

Directing duo Brian and Karl have paired up with English folk rock trio&nbsp;The Staves for these lovely, troubling visuals for Steady.&nbsp;Shot on 16mm film, the ambiguous&nbsp;clip sees the three sisters in a state of anxiety and fear, looking at themselves into&nbsp;scenes of their own death. On their Facebook page,&nbsp;The Staves - who seem to enjoy a dark sense of humour&nbsp;-&nbsp;summarise the video with the phrase,&nbsp;&quot;Jess face down in a swimming pool, Camilla struggling to turn off an alarm clock and Emily pretending she&#39;s in The Godfather.&quot;&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Brian and Karl

Hannah Shipley

Kadri Mahmoud

Chris Toumazou

COMPULSORY

Toby Sherborne

Benjamin Barber

James Leckey

Darren Ladbury 

Antonis Tsiakos

Dean Zinmarakis

Matt Perry

AJ O'Neill

Sophie Medhurst

Hope Van Joel

Laura Mellor

Oisín O' Driscoll

The Mill

Marisa Garner Associates

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Folk Rock

The Staves 'Steady' by Brian and Karl

THE STAVES // Steady

Projections of a man&#39;s guilt take on the form of female figures in religious garb&nbsp;in this neat video for Amateur Best&#39;s song They Know. Featuring some excellent monochromatic photography, director Effie Pappa uses classic religious figures in&nbsp;expressive ways to&nbsp;communicate the&nbsp;man&#39;s tarnished conscience as he seeks redemption.&nbsp;This is also a live action outing for a director better known for her work as an animator. Effie Pappa&#39;s short <a href="http://www.effiepappa.co.uk/#!mystuffedgranny/c8te" target="_blank">My Stuffed Granny</a> has won several awards, including Best British Animation - the prestigious McLaren Award &ndash;&nbsp;at the 2014 Edinburgh Film Festival.&nbsp;

Effie Pappa

James Chamberlain

Adrian Peckitt

Gary Long

Jake Stickley

Lucas Trattou

Jess Summer

Joe Flory, Alejandra Bano, Carly Blackburn, Lucy Ridley

www.jellylondon.com

Brille Records

Lauren Bridle

Undercranked

Amateur Best 'They Know' by Effie Pappa

Amateur-Best-'They-Know'-by-Effie-Pappa

Perfectly matching the intricate sound design within Tropics&rsquo; new single Blame, Chloe Hayward &ndash; taking inspiration from the album artwork - constructs a beautifully atmospheric and striking promo.Centred around an intimate performance by singer Chris Ward, we enjoy a spot of cathartic smashing of household objects, gorgeously captured in slo-mo by DP Ronaldas Buozis.

Chloe Hayward

My Accomplice

Jamie Clark

Chanse Fyffe

Ronaldas Buozis

Simon Lakos

Andrea Angelini

Toby Tomkins

Mak Knighton

Las Bandas Be Brave

Singer-songwriter

Ambient

Sound Design

Tropics 'Blame' by Chloe Hayward

Tropics-'Blame'-by-Chloe-Hayward

The elegant and refined visuals and editing in this Wyles &amp; Simpson promo for the soulful duet&#39;s Stormy Skies by Kim Taylor&nbsp;is tonally resonant and entirely mesmerising. The hazy refractions of light and the opulent radial glass backdrop to the singers make for a perfectly simple and glamorous video.&nbsp;As Kim explains: &quot;The video explores the nature of the fragile emotional state between melancholy and euphoria, taking cues from the dusky mystery of film-noir to the opulent splendour of art-deco.&quot;

Kim Taylor

Kiran Mandla

Rob White

Emilio Schlappi

Graeme Watt

Daniel Goodall

Ruka Johnson

Ellia White

Julien Biard

Finish

OB Management

Sophie Hall

MTA Records

Alternative

Wyles & Simpson 'Stormy Skies' by Kim Taylor

Wyles-&-Simpson-'Stormy-Skies'-by-Kim-Taylor

The problems of empty-nest&nbsp;middle-aged couples is an unusual&nbsp;subject for a music video, but with this one for Tropics&#39; Rapture, Chris Toumazou takes it on, and does a very impressive&nbsp;job.It&#39;s the portrayal of an ordinary, council flat-dwelling couple left in an emotional void&nbsp;when their only son leaves home. The gritty realism of the situation is emphasised by&nbsp;the cinematic look - it&#39;s shot on 35mm. But in keeping with Tropics&#39; soulful ballad, it&#39;s ultimately&nbsp;a lot more sweet than downbeat, as the midlifers make tentative steps at rebooting their relationship.&nbsp;Chris and&nbsp;Tropics (aka Chris Ward) and good friends, and their previous video together, for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/07/05/tropics-home-consonance-chris-toumazou" target="_blank">Home &amp; Consonance</a>, was nominated for an MVA.&nbsp;There&#39;s a good interview with Tropics about the video &ndash;&nbsp;and his new musical direction &ndash;&nbsp;on <a href="http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-new-tropics-video-is-what-happens-when-your-parents-leave-home" target="_blank">Noisey</a>, although the interviewer is a bit obsessed with &#39;fruit porn&#39; - see picture above.&nbsp;

Kadri Mahmoud,

Robert White

Jim Mclean

Leo Winslow

Richard Mills

Marine Edith Crosta

Julian Biard

Cheryl Payne, Charles Gillett

Lesley Leyton, Raymond Taylor

Jamie Strong

Innovative Leisure

Phoebe Platman

Alternative, Alt-soul

Tropics 'Rapture' by Chris Toumazou

Tropics - "Rapture" (Official Video)

It&#39;s a decidely eery evening down at the&nbsp;launderette, where the various characters are possessed by&nbsp;the voice of Cloud Boat singer Tom Clark, as a way of sourcing affection from one another,&nbsp;in Chris Toumazou&#39;s video for the band&#39;s song Carmine.There&#39;s something of the old-school nouvelle vague surrealism about this - like Last Year At Marienbad meets My Beautiful Laundrette...

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