Head of Creative - Studio Island (Island Records + EMI)

Commissioner

Theresa Adebiyi

Loyle Carner embarks on a dreamlike journey in the self-directed video for the lead-off track from his forthcoming hew album.Loyle (real name, Ben Carner-Loyle) is tucked up in a child-sized bed as the video for Lyin' starts. As water begins to drip onto his head, the bedsheet becomes a device to set him on his travels. He finds himself in bed in the sea, then back asleep, waking up, leaving a public bathroom and entering a rush hour crowd of commuters and then - in a moment of brilliance -&nbsp;rising above everyone else.[imgtoken data:1]Eventually he finds himself walking into a crowded theatre and onto the stage where his bedroom is the set - and he walks back into the room.&nbsp;Throughout, Loyle is talking about the pressures and pleasures of fatherhood - a central theme of the new album&nbsp;hopefully!&nbsp;So the video is itself a surreal exploration of fatherhood, where both&nbsp;inner child and grown-up self are still figuring things out. It leaves things open-ended and unresolved, a cue for the viewer to get closer to Loyle Carner's new music.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Toms Jansons

Laura Adamovica

Maya Kilic

Chris Anthony

Luke Smith

Ben Coyle-Larner

Ayomide Alli

Mouthpiece

Spindle

Zhan Zharoff

Mattias Rudh

Mayling Wong

Bogdan Krutov

Kristaps Dombrovskis

Ivars Trautmanis

Evgenia Hamudajeva

Anna Marija Abrosimova

Nik Kohler

Cabin Editing Company

Simon Bourne

Company 3

Mad Nomad Collective

EMI Records

Hip Hop

Loyle Carner 'Lyin' by Ben Coyle-Larner

Loyle Carner - lyin (official video)

Kylie's latest banger, her irresistible collab with The Blessed Madonna,&nbsp;comes with another genius video from Sophie Muller, to further cement her iconic status.In fact, the video for Edge Of Saturday Night suggests that Kylie might actually be immortal. As if shot on the fly during her progress on a wild night out in Ibiza - it was filmed at the legendary Pikes Hotel on the island - starting side-by-side with Blessed Madonna before she proceeds to nightclub, playground, tennis court and finally, fully-clothed dip in a&nbsp;swimming pool, Kylie is a glowing glamourous goddess in every scene and in every format. Not just ageless, Kylie appears to be getting younger...She is certainly revelling in her musical renaissance, and that's the platform for Kylie and her longtime collaborator Muller to do their magic in the video. And it could be hardly described as anything other than magic.By going for the run-and-gun-style approach&nbsp;in its shooting - with sterling work from DoP joel Honeywell - Muller stamps authority through an&nbsp;edit that grabs the viewer from the first seconds. It's a brilliant job, an object lesson in the power of music video editing - like a character in this video of itself.So that's two people cementing their iconic status. And it's certainly the best music video shot at Pikes since Club Tropicana...[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2][imgtoken data:3]

Frank Strachan

Sophie Muller

Chris Murdoch

PRETTYBIRD

Eddy Ibarro

Joel Honeywell

Issy Humphreys

Kairo Jones

Christian Vermaak

Emily Tongue

Faye Purcell

Disco

Dance

The Blessed Madonna & Kylie Minogue 'Edge Of Saturday Night' by Sophie Muller

The-Blessed-Madonna-&-Kylie-Minogue-'Edge-Of-Saturday-Night'-by-Sophie-Muller

Tanu Muino directs a poolside fantasy for Dua Lipa, set against a breathtaking Barcelona backdrop.&nbsp;The video for Illusion sees Dua perform on brutalist structures alongside a group of athletic dancers and dancers. Spanning slick choreography (on land and in water), extravagant performance setpieces, and an infectious sense of fun, it's the kind of high-concept blockbuster we've come to expect from both artist and director.The&nbsp;collaboration is a match made in Heaven, and this is an instantly memorable and iconic&nbsp;highlight of the album rollout so far.&nbsp;

Tanu Muino

UnderWonder Content

Primo

Nikita Kuzmenko

Spencer Graves

Oleksii Smoliar

Carlos Font Clos

Charm La'Donna

Lorenzo Posocco

Tim Masick

Warner Uk

Karen Saurí Marchán

Frank Borin

Ivanna Borin

Alexa Haywood

Cora Rodriguez

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Anna Salgado

Dani Molina

Rafa Ramirez

Teresa Montanuy

Peter Lux

Dua Lipa 'Illusion' by Tanu Muino

Dua Lipa - Illusion (Official Music Video)

Griff gives full rein to her emotions, with the help of a small army of dancers, in Colin Solal Cardo's choreography-led video for Miss Me Too.It begins with the pop singer-songwriter entering an empty warehouse hangar space alone. But once plugged into the music via her Bose in-ear headphones, she is joined by numerous dancers. Then through the course of the song Griff becomes the central focus&nbsp;within this larger entity and channels the emotion of the song through the versatile arrangements of the group.With choreography by Jay Revell and cinematography by Madison McKamey, the promo is&nbsp;beautifully well crafted, yet succeeds in feeling unbridled and&nbsp;spontaneous. A fine way to reaquaint ourselves with the talented Griff.&nbsp; &nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]

Colin Solal Cardo

Jake River Parker

Stink Films

Dom Mckiernan

Maya Bury

Hands 

Freddie Wright

Madison Mckamey

Matt Farrant

Sonia Rodriguez

Darren Quinn

Joe Sherno

Jay Revell

Michelle Dacillo

Tomomi Roppongi

Kamran Rajput

Suzie Walsh

Gwen Ghelid

Collectiv Paris

Myles Bevan

Tomas Katter

Studio RM

Robert Chen

Griff 'Miss Me Too' by Colin Solal Cardo

Griff - Miss Me Too (Official Video)

Dua Lipa coolly assesses a small army of suitors in Vincent Haycock's dizzying blockbuster for Training Season.&nbsp;The video sees the artist sitting in a café, attracting the avid attention of numerous males, who pile up against the window outside to get a glimpse of her, and occupy every other table.&nbsp;As their stares linger, the whole environment starts to shift, until the men get caught in a whirlwind orbit - much to Dua's amusement.&nbsp;It's the kind of big-budget spectacle we've come to expect from Dua Lipa, with cinematography by Rina Yang, seamless visual effects, a cast of dozens, choreography by Charm La'Donna (for Dua) and Ryan Heffington (for the cast)&nbsp;- and an utterly compelling performance at its core.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;

Vincent Haycock

Rina Yang

Whitney Jackson

Tash Tan

Alli Maxwell

Georgina Fillmore

Somesuch

Meredith Kurey

Emily Shulmanovich

Kenny Taylor

Christian Stone

Natasha Newman-Thomas

Lorenzo Possoco

Sam Visser

Ryan Heffington

Dante Pasquinelli

Dua Lipa 'Training Season' by Vincent Haycock 

Dua Lipa - Training Season (Official Music Video)

Dua Lipa returns with the propulsive Houdini and a video by Manu Cossu that adds magic and panache to a dance rehearsal sequence.Shot at the The English National Ballet’s Mulryan Centre for Dance, it's edgier,&nbsp;a bit more 'Tove Lo', than previous videos for Dua by the likes of Henry Scholfield and CANADA - but just as beautifully put together.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]

Manu Cossu

Iconoclast

Andre Chemetoff

Maëva Tenneroni

Romain Gavras

Martha McGuirk

Arthur De Borman

Charm La Donna

Lisa Eldridge

Matt Allsop

Mathieu Caplanne

Jérôme Pesnel

Léo Gatelier

Dua Lipa 'Houdini' by Manu Cossu

Dua Lipa - Houdini (Official Music Video)

Jade Ang Jackman directs a breezy throwback promo for Priya Ragu's banging summer anthem.&nbsp;With a beat inspired by UK Garage, the track exudes nostalgic charm, and Jade Ang Jackman mirrors this sensibility in the visual aesthetic.&nbsp;We see the artist drive around the city with careless abandon, linking up with friends and toying with the possibility of romance - in an easy fashion.&nbsp;There's dancing, flirting and plenty of laughs, and in this respect it pays homage to the music video style of the early noughties - simple concept packed full of fun vibes, leaving any angst and worry firmly in the rearview.&nbsp;

Troy Smith

Ana Gonzalvo

Neesha Champaneria

Jade Ang Jackman

Alex Cullen

Kai Blamey Nguyen

Carmen Du Preez

Jamie Monks

Fabio Olgiati

Lea Aubigne

Lake Sanu

Rob McGuire

The Assembly Rooms

Jon Dobson

Wash

Warner Music

Garage

Singer songwriter

Priya Ragu 'Easy' by Jade Ang Jackman

Priya Ragu - Easy (Official Video)

Will Dohrn's searingly intense video for IDLES employs a brilliant visual device to tell several parallel stories of life on the edge in modern Britain.It's so rare to see something which takes the familiar and bring a completely fresh, and instantly identifiable perspective. This is one of those occasions, as Dohrn's camera effectively becomes each protagonist, looking downwards at their own right hand as they go about their daily business.Against the incendary aggression of WAR, the director cuts kinetically between the stories, but building up a tapestry of gritty lives, grim outlooks and, as the camera spirals upwards in the final stage, human tragedy.You will need to watch again (and again) to discern each progression - and that is a key element to the success of this thrilling video which is, conversely also immediately impactful. With an execution as strong and inventive as the concept, it's certainly up there as one of the best music videos of the year so far.

Will Dohrn

Mel Giles

Ground Work

Aaron Z. Willson

Tara Sadeghi

Pete Wade

Henry Russell

Yan Murawski

Alexandra Toomey

Rebekah Roy

Tim Smith

CHEAT

Partisan Records

Harry Wheeler

Rock

IDLES 'WAR' by Will Dohrn

Idles-'War'-by-Will-Dohrn

Michel Gondry returns with brother Olivier to bring some magic to the world of music video. And the wonderful&nbsp;surprise it is a political satire in childlike cartoon form for the corruscating rock of Bristol band IDLES.Michel and Olivier have visualised IDLES'&nbsp;frontman Joe Talbot's scathing portrait of English village life in Model Village, and Michel in particular has returned to his roots with a burst of childlike imagination delivered in a genuinely DIY fashion, in a wonderfully homespun but ultimately hugely powerful&nbsp;lockdown project.Produced by Partizan in collaboration with WePresent&nbsp;- the editorial&nbsp;platform of WeTransfer, which<a href="https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/idles-gondry-model-village/" target="_blank"> premiered the video with an extensive piece on its making</a>&nbsp;- Michel has drawn, cut-out and stop-frame animated&nbsp;his own paper version of Talbot's Model Village. Olivier then&nbsp;added CG enhancement and post,&nbsp;so that it becomes something akin to&nbsp;a pop-up children's book.[imgtoken data:1]If Talbot's sketch&nbsp;of smallmindness and bigotry in the small town&nbsp;where he grew up&nbsp;can be regarded as a&nbsp;swipe&nbsp;at the&nbsp; mindset&nbsp;of&nbsp;Brexit England (and&nbsp;Wales), the Gondry approach lifts it onto another level. This village is populated by pig-people, dominated by the local bully, fuelled on drink, pills and weapons. But there is a beacon of hope:&nbsp;an adventurer-astronaut who aims to escape the confines of the village.&nbsp;Talbot's characteristic vocal&nbsp;delivery works remarkably well with the visuals, which sway between&nbsp;from elements of social comment and&nbsp;surreal flights of fancy.&nbsp;Meanwhile, the element of satire feels like this is the Gondrys paying homage to the great Eastern European animators like Jan Svankmeyer who Michel has venerated since his teens.&nbsp;Watch the Behind The Scenes video, including clips from the directors' Zoom meeting with Joe Talbot at the start of the process, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXRa9JZfUQ&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank">here</a>.Talbot studied Film at university a decade ago, and has been a Gondry fan for a long time. He told WePresent: “Michel’s work is handmade and it's human and that's something that our society pushes against: you need to be perfect. You need to look perfect and everything needs to be seamless and strong. But actually, vulnerability and naivety are strengths. To be vulnerable and to be naive is to have empathy. And so, to empathise with your adversaries and allow yourself to be naked on film or on record is a really strong thing to do. It liberates you and it also liberates your audience. That's something that I hope that IDLES can do, and that Gondry's been doing for years.”[imgtoken data:2]Also speaking to WePresent, Michel Gondry added: “Olivier and I were excited to work on this because we use completely opposite techniques.&nbsp;I work with a primitive system of cutting paper and moving it under the lens frame by frame. Olivier then transforms it by morphing, warping and CGI. Basically, in the first part we try to illustrate the lyrics as close as possible, to create the world, and then in the second half...they go to the moon.”Ultimately the message of Model Village chimes with Michel Gondry's own creative&nbsp;credo: nothing is more important than freedom of individual expression. And for him the&nbsp;best way to&nbsp;channel that freedom is through childlike wonder.

Michel Gondry

Olivier Gondry

Raffi Adlan

Partizan

Debo (J. DeBartolo)

Jake Schwartz

Valerie Pirson

Matt Osborne

Josh Falcon

IDLES 'Model Village' by Michel Gondry & Olivier Gondry

IDLES - MODEL VILLAGE (Official Video)

Fontaines D.C. bassist Connor Deegan III remotely directs the cinematic visual for I Don't Belong.Capturing a lonely intensity&nbsp;through the cinematography, the visual explores&nbsp;the connection between the safety of being on land and the relative risk and unknown nature of the water, which is a metaphorical riff on the song's lyrics.&nbsp;Vocalist Grain Chattan's performance starts inland, on a large field backdropped by a massive windmill. By the end of the video, he is enveloped by the water, the journey of the track coming to a close, completely consumed by his inner thoughts and anxieties.GRIAN CHATTAN:&nbsp;"This song is a dismissal of the expectations of other people who consider themselves loyal to you. We wanted it to be a statement, almost like the anti-Big [opening song on first album&nbsp;Dogrel], which is why we put it as the first song on the new album. This sentiment of not belonging can be liberating in a way, but it's also lonely and sad. We wanted to show both sides of that type of loneliness."One verse is about a soldier who has his bravery commended by his country, but throws his medal down and refuses to accept the commendation. He sees it as a hijacking and commodification of his principles. The other verse is about someone causing a ruckus in a bar, refusing to be enticed by any sort of friendliness and kindness, wanting to remain in the wrong corner.&nbsp;"I had a few cans before I recorded the vocals, I wanted it to sound like I was playing the role of embittered barfly and feel like the soundtrack of someone swaying themselves home after a cold night out - full of principles but surrounded by nobody."&nbsp;CONOR DEEGAN III:&nbsp;<blockquote>The idea was to use the limitations to our benefit. To try to match the emotional feel of the song but without being heavy-handed.</blockquote>"We had a whole different video shoot planned in London, then all the restrictions hit so we had to figure out how to do something remotely from back home in Ireland. The idea was to use the limitations to our benefit. To try to match the emotional feel of the song but without being heavy-handed. Telling a visual story parallel to the lyrics."I remotely directed the video from Co.Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland, where I am from. It was shot on location on the east coast of Ireland, in Skerries, where Grian is from."Grian’s character goes on a walk, passing by all these places. He’s telling us this dramatic story that slowly grows as the verses go on. At the start you do and you don’t really get a sense of the anxiety or negativity to come. It’s buried under the surface. At the end he submerges himself, completely consumed by his inner thoughts finally coming out into the world."

Ireland

Conor Deegan Iii

Hugh Mulhern

Albert Hooi

Noel Murphy

Post-Punk

Fontaines D.C. 'I Don't Belong' by Conor Deegan III

Fontaines-D.c.-'I-Don't-Belong'-by-Conor-Deegan-Iii

Rob French keeps things fast and furious for Idles'&nbsp;titanic anthem Grounds, shot in an English town at dawn during lockdown.Joe Talbot takes the wheel of his car and storms through the town's deserted streets, captured by French in a modest nod to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYOMFayruw" target="_blank">Rendezvous, Claude Lelouch's classic race through early morning Paris</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Frontman Joe Talbot says of “Grounds”: “We wanted to write a song that embodied self-belief, and gave us self-belief - a counter-punch to all the doubt we build up from all the noise we so easily let in. We wanted to make the sound of our own hearts’ marching band, armed with a jack hammer and a smile. We wanted to make the sound of our engine starting. So we did. Thank you."

Rob French

Jonesmillbank

Idles 'Grounds' by Rob French 

Idles-'Grounds'-by-Rob-French-

Hugh Mulhern focusses entirely on a band performance that appears to be beamed in from a TV studio from the distant past, in his video for Fontaines DC's Televised Mind.The&nbsp;approach to the video was clearly dictated by quarantine conditions, but this singleminded, Twilight Zone-style&nbsp;aesthetic gels with the mesmerizing intensity of the track.It's a complete contrast to Mulhern's previous video for the title track from the Dublin's much-anticipated first album, A Hero's Death, which features Aiden Gillan in carefully constructed&nbsp;narrative. But it works a treat.&nbsp;

Fontaines D.C. 'Televised Mind' by Hugh Mulhern

Fontaines-D.c.-'Televised-Mind'-by-Hugh-Mulhern

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