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The third video from the Arctic Monkeys latest album The Car continues in the same vein as the previous two - like a viewing a random mix&nbsp;of old film footage of a Seventies band, that rather magically hangs together.The band's longtime collaborator Ben Chappell follows Brook Linder (with <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/10/06/arctic-monkeys-body-paint-brook-linder/78633" target="_blank">Body Paint</a>) and band frontman Alex Turner (with <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/09/09/arctic-monkeys-thered-better-be-mirrorball-alex-turner/78221" target="_blank">There'd Better Be A Mirrorball</a>) in helming the video for Sculptures Of Anything Goes, and it's another gorgeous experience, revelling in the irreplaceable quality of working in the medium of film, allowing the aesthetic to do the heavy lifting.It also has to be the coolest way to&nbsp;frame Turner's intent&nbsp;to be regarded as a modern-day crooner. That might just pay off.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;

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Arctic Monkeys 'Sculptures Of Anything Goes' by Ben Chappell

Arctic Monkeys - Sculptures Of Anything Goes (Official Video)

The first taste of the Arctic Monkeys new album The Car comes with a video directed by frontman Alex Turner. It's very cool indeed.This is the first video that Turner has directed for the band (we think) but he's known to be a keen devotee of film&nbsp;and that really shows here. It's a lovely cinematic rendering of the band recording the song, which both appears to be verité-real yet also has its own artful, impressionistic&nbsp;sensibility. It echoes the classic style of both pioneering rock documentaries for the Sixties and Seventies, and Nineties&nbsp;MTV-era videos, and that really compliments&nbsp;the unhurried, slow-burning There'd Better Be A Mirrorball.Turner is credited as one of the camera operators on this, together with longtime collaborator Ben Chappell - formerly of directing duo Focus Creeps -&nbsp;and the overall effect is somewhere between Godard, Focus Creeps and a great music video director (who, like the band, also came from Sheffield) Peter Care.&nbsp;

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Arctic Monkeys 'There'd Better Be A Mirrorball' by Alex Turner

Arctic Monkeys - There’d Better Be A Mirrorball (Official Video)

Optical Arts direct a still life-inspired animation, set to Bach's&nbsp;Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.The film was conceived loosely as a live action musical animation, reminiscent of the system used in music animation software such as Stephen Malinowski’s Music Animation Machine.It is an exploration on the nature of time, the relentless violence of entropy and creative energy and its relationship to music itself. Domestic and pertinent objects, common in the still life genre, were sourced and used within a structure mostly defined by the music.Beautifully striking, the drama of the music is visualised through theatrical slow-motion as items fall, smash and collide in reverse.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Performed By Peter Hurford 'Toccata And Fugue In D Minor' by Optical Arts 

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London-based creative studio Optical Arts explore texture, movement and arrangement in&nbsp;Patterns, with music by&nbsp;Sonjay Prabhakar.&nbsp;Presenting a series of in-camera experiments with different elements - including salt, water and glass - the visual is a mesmerizing&nbsp;composite of these shorter items, with&nbsp;patterns unfolding to match the beat of the enigmatic track.&nbsp;

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Sonjay Prabhakar 'Patterns' by Optical Arts 

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The two-part film, co-directed by Harry Barber and Kano, explores the London rapper’s Jamaican heritage and influences, and culminates in the most humble but important of gatherings - the coming together of friends to eat and drink.In&nbsp;this fly-on-the-wall-style documentary, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vANW3jaAM" target="_blank">the first part of the film</a> serves as a prelude to the actual video for Kano's collaboration with Jamaican superstar Popcaan on Can't Hold We Down. Kano discusses his numerous trips to Jamaica since childhood, before he heads down to favourite East London shops with his mum to prepare for the feast - where they are joined by Popcaan, just arrived from Jamaica.&nbsp;In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fCQ4drZkOE" target="_blank">Part 2 of the film</a>, we are back at Kano's mum's place, and the documentary dovetails smoothly into the music video. As Kano and Popcaan perform, dinner is cooked and served to friends, family and these legends of grime and dancehall. But not before mum blesses the table.&nbsp;

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Kano ft Popcaan 'Can’t Hold We Down' by Harry Barber & Kano

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Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell&#39;s video for the title track from the Arctic Monkeys&#39; album Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino continues on the theme of their first for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/05/15/arctic-monkeys-four-out-five-ben-chappell-aaron-brown" target="_blank">Four Out Of Five</a>, taking into deep into Alex Turner&#39;s conceptual idea for the album - the slightly barmy retro-glamour of&nbsp;the eponymous Tranquility Base.So here&#39;s Turner in his domain, an eerily deserted Vegas of the past, always immaculate in a series of dazzling outfits - and&nbsp;often required to pick up a phone at a moment&#39;s notice...

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Arctic Monkeys 'Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino' by Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell  

Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Official Video)

Blur are about to release The Magic Whip -&nbsp;their first album in 12 years - with cover artwork by&nbsp;Tony Hung. And now the designer has also directed the first video from the album.And the official video for Go Out is part&nbsp;lyric video, part cooking show. Tony was inspired by Chinese cooking tutorials, and this leads him to make what has to be one of the most useful videos ever made - at least since Keith Schofield showed us how to make our own hallucigenic drugs.&nbsp;So enjoy the return of Blur - and learn how to make proper vanilla ice-cream...

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Filmed by Damon Albarn himself over the course of several months, then&nbsp;organised and&nbsp;edited by&nbsp;Matt Cronin, the video for Lonely Press Play is a window into the globe-trotting&nbsp;life of the performer, and subtly into a sense of loneliness.Matt took footage directly from Damon&rsquo;s tablet of him&nbsp;in Tokyo, London, Dallas, Utah, Colchester, North Korea, Iceland and Devon, to cut together this highly engaging video.&quot;&ldquo;Damon has been capturing footage on his tablet for the last couple of years,&quot; says&nbsp;commissioner William Nichols. &quot;At first it was just to catalogue journeys and interesting things he&rsquo;d seen on tour. But as he collected footage it became clear that it could and should be used in videos and album content. The footage adds a really personal touch and unique insight into Damon&rsquo;s world.&rdquo;

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Damon Albarn 'Lonely Press Play' by Damon Albarn & Matt Cronin

Damon Albarn - Lonely Press Play (Official Video)

Shot largely in an abandoned warehouse in London, Naroop captures lively and enigmatic performances from Sway and Mr Hudson in his promo for Charge - featuring the briefest of cameos from one Ed Sheeran.

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Sway ft Mr Hudson 'Charge' by Naroop 

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Following a five year break, Ms Dynamite returns marks her return with new single Neva Soft and a cool Amit &amp; Naroop-directed performance promo...

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