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Edem Wornoo directs a tranquil promo for Duval Timothy.&nbsp;The video for First Rain captures the artist's performance live in Freetown, Sierra Leone, intercut with docu-style shots of the people and environments surrounding the studio.&nbsp;Shot for Crack Magazine as part of their January edition - for&nbsp;which Timothy is the cover star - the video also contains a sneak peek into the makings of a new limited-edition scarf, designed by the artist himself alongside the publication.&nbsp;A stirring collaboration that highlights the multi-faceted skills of Timothy and the creative team.&nbsp;

Carla Thomas

Olivia Jessop

Edem Wornoo

Duval Timothy

Anna Butler

Ground Work

Jake Applebee

Aaron Z. Willson

Charles Gamble

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Duval Timothy 'First Rain' by Edem Wornoo

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Ned Botwood directs a big-hearted love letter to the West Country, by way of the American West for Metronomy frontman&nbsp;Joseph Mount's wonderful duet with Katy J Pearson for Love Factory.This song is an absolute peach, and the video highlights the special chemistry that is created by bringing fellow west country artist Pearson on board. Botwood channels the visuals from 1960s US TV variety shows, and the legendary&nbsp;performances by Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and June Carter, blending&nbsp;British and American rural iconography, superimposing Katy and Joseph into sweeping Devon landscapes.Shot with a distinctly American flavour by DP Jamie Harding, the video trades prairie grass for wheat stubble and wide highways for narrow country lanes. The landscapes were captured over a sunset-chasing road trip through the South Hams in Jamie’s van.[imgtoken data:1]Ned, Jamie and editor Kevin Corry worked to recreate a variety of old-school televisual devices. Shooting country vistas to line up with studio performances, then using a combination of back projection, black negative space and lo-fi blending effects to merge them together.Eagle-eyed viewers will also spot a handful of homages to American cult classics, including Paris Texas, My Own Private Idaho and The Night of the Hunter. “What I love about this song is that it just sounds like it’s always been around, like an old standard on the radio," says Botwood.&nbsp;"It made me think of that golden age of country performances on TV in the late ’60s. Those variety hours like Kraft Music Hall and The Porter Wagoner Show.[imgtoken data:2]"Those shows really threw everything at the wall. All those charmingly janky sets and camera effects. Dolly Parton playing her Grammer guitar on a plastic porch, or Loretta Lynn superimposed onto rural Kentucky, or truly weird images like three disembodied Peggy Lee heads trading lyrics in different corners of the screen.“So much country music is about *home*. And if you absorb enough US culture, you can end up with this weird nostalgia for a rural heartland you’ve never actually been to. But it does make sense. When Dolly sings about her ‘Tennessee Mountain Home’, you understand that feeling instinctively, even if you’ve only been as close as the West Country. Katy, Joe and I are all connected to Devon. And sometimes when you’re down there, on the right day and in the right light, it really does look like the American prairie.”“Metronomy and Katy are two of my big indie heroes. So I was very sweaty when the email arrived! But I had the nicest team. Shoutout to Jamie Harding, who took me and his Arriflex sunset-chasing in Devon for two days. And Kevin Corry, who killed it in the edit.”

Joshua Gochez

Athene Xenia Aristocleous

Bo Dubema

Ned Botwood

Lydia Martland

André Reid

DOGEATDOG

Somesuch

Natalia Maus

Yan Murawski

Jamie Harding

Maëva Demurger

Pòl Gil

Orlando Morris

Riccardo Angei

Molly Whiteley

Kevin Corry

The Assembly Rooms

Ruth Wardell

Because Music

Metronomy & Katy J Pearson 'Love Factory' by Ned Botwood

Metronomy & Katy J Pearson's - Love Factory (Official Music Video)

Stephen Agnew directs an exploration of the anxiety that comes with living a glamorous lifestyle, in his promo for Regard&nbsp;&amp; Kwabs.&nbsp;The conceptual visuals for Signals make use of drawn-out, hypnotic camera moves, which traverse the rooms like a disembodied consciousness.&nbsp;The maze-like location and use of vivid lighting leans into the haunting vibe of the track, feeling very much bittersweet in its presentation.&nbsp;

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Stephen Agnew

Ersan Beskardes

Kevin Cheung

Elle Lotherington

Jack WiIkinson

Jim Mclean

Alex Agopian

Krunal Saadranik

Joe Munro

Mollie Ashman

Deemy

Carrie Sutton

Kat Cattaneo

Sony Music

Ola Christian at LEVILE

Electronic

Regard, Kwabs 'Signals' by Stephen Agnew

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London filmmaker Naomi Grant has shared a director’s cut of Infidel, the music video she directed for New York singer-songwriter Infinite Coles.The video was created through Three Minutes, Crack Magazine’s incubator scheme funding five music videos by young, unsigned directors.Shot in a warehouse setting, with well-crafted use of colour and art direction around the performance by Coles and a dancer,&nbsp;the Infidel music video is a poignant depiction of the journey to self-discovery and the confusion and isolation that come with it. Following its release last month, this is the Director’s Cut, which expands on Grant's vision.

Naomi Grant

Melissa Giles

Tom Fraser-Ivens

Kai Blamey

Lou Macnamara

Nathan Matthews

Jade Adeyemi

Ash K Halliburton

Sian O'Donnell

Kayla Selway

Brett Rayner

Company 3

Cody Cadarelli

Sohaila Ashanti

Don't Sleep

Three Minutes

Junior Agyeman-Owusu

Jo Lewandowska

Soul

Singer-songwriter

Infinite Coles 'Infidel' by Naomi Grant

Infinite-Coles-'Infidel'-by-Naomi-Grant

Melody Maker explores freedom and restrictions in her hallucinatory promo for Greentea Peng.&nbsp;Locked inside an apartment building, we see the artists isolated from the world outside, unable to connect with&nbsp;anything outside of the four walls that encase them.&nbsp;The hazy cinematography blurs into a surrealist dreamworld, as the artists&nbsp;appear as giant döppelgängers,&nbsp;staring at their true selves&nbsp;through the window glass as if they were experimental guinea pigs.&nbsp;It's a clever commentary on the extended period of time we have been trapped away from each other, and the ongoing severance of our natural ties to the world and our true purpose.[imgtoken data:1]

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