Adam Buxton muses on the difficulty of not picking a side in our polarised world in Dancing In The Middle - interpreted as a battle between different types of audio equipment by visionary animator Cyriak Harris in this very welcome return to music videos.

Cyriak's distinctive style of manipulating existing material in extraordinary ways - as seen in numerous viral films and music videos for the likes of Bonobo - is all present here, as a hapless cassette-and-speaker character is caught in the crossfire between competing characters composed of analogue and digital audio gear - a war overseen by a controlling reel-to-reel tape machine.

Buxton - whose debut album Buckle Up is released today - goes way back with Cyriak, the self-taught and entirely self-reliant animator who created mind-boggling exercises in surreal comedy and AfterEffects chicanery in films where he also wrote the music, and then in a number of commissioned music videos in the Noughties and Teens - all regularly featured at BUG, the Buxton-presented music video live event.

This is not as intensely complicated as many of Cyriak's classic films, but it's still a considerable achievement of wrangling a mass of visual elements to serve up the idea. And it really does justify repeated viewing to appreciate the detail and storytelling - and realise that somehow Cyriak serves up a happy(ish) ending.