Rosie Matheson directs a conceptual performance video for Finn Askew. Following their collaboration on 2020's Peach, Matheson delivers another knockout promo for the genre-defying artist, placing him in a series of absurd set pieces. Following the lyrics as a guide of sorts, Askew is tied up with rope, sat on a massive pile of dining chairs, and surrounded by loads of larger-than-life cherries. Wonderfully weird and catchy, and an excellent follow-up for the director and artist.

A young girl dreams about purchasing Berlin-based rock band Rikas, in Aladin Mekanović's promo for Stereo. In the video, the group are taken back to the girl's house and made pride of place in the living room, before the whole family start to lightly bop to the beat of their performance in an understated - and slightly absurd - manner. Things get weirder from there, as Rikas are tossed around by the desires of the family, before the whole thing is revealed to be a vision, and the girl instead decides to buy the more famous band, Von Wegen Lisbeth. It's a surreal yet effortlessly charming piece of filmmaking, in the same vein as oddball comedies Napoleon Dynamite and the like, and has instant replay appeal. You'll find yourself pining for your own German rock band to take home by the end of it...

An unbearably intense attraction turns into an obsession, in Aube Perrie's wonderfully bizarre promo for MK. Pondering on the primal, animalistic nature of our subconscious, the concept presents a bodybuilder-esque character with the head of a dog... and it only gets weirder from there. After serving a beautiful girl at his food cart one fateful day, thoughts of potential romance and happily-ever-afters plague his mind, and cause him to cast aside his long term relationship and just about every responsibility he has day-to-day.Shot in a gritty, documentary-esque style by DoP Raphaël Vandenbussche - with terrific VFX/Flame work by Vincent Heine - it's a brilliant visual that turns a couple of tropes on their heads, and ends with a climactic display of karma.

Max Siedentopf directs a brilliantly absurd promo for Glass Animals - and another Glass Animals lockdown video classic. Shot during the first lockdown of 2020, the concept cleverly uses a single vantage point and a super long zoom lens to uncover a world full of distorted clones and softcore body horror. The band's frontman Dave Bayley is rendered in 3D form and then stripped nude, bloated, twisted and rolled up to create a hallucinatory vision straight out of a Junji Ito novel.The clones are then shown taking over various Haggerston landmarks, congregating and interacting in an increasingly surreal fashion. It's typically weird and wonderful work from Siedentopf - and a timely dive into the uncanny valley.

Anna Himma directs a marvellous medieval fantasy for Tommy Cash. Featuring birds with human face torsos, dancing knights and full scale fight scenes - and that's just the start of it - the video for Racked fits perfectly within Cash's surreal, absurdist world, and is quite possibly the most uncomfortably fun three and a half minutes you will have this week.It's a triumph of weirdness, brought together by frequent collaborator Himma's off-the-wall creativity - she won an UKMVA last year for her brilliant art direction of the video for Cash's Sdubid - DoP Jurģis Kmins' polished cinematography, and of course, Cash's over the top performance - culminating in a dance sequence worthy of a South Korean boyband in full medieval regalia.“This video right here didn’t want to come alive," says Tommy Cash. "We tried to come up with a right concept for it over a year. There have been 5-6 fully written different ideas, and some of them even with drawn moodboards for every shot - but COVID or something else was always standing in our way…"Until one beautiful day this medieval vision came to us which was actually the hardest to make out of them all. Anna Himma just shot it out of this world…”

Greg Hackett directs a neon-lit, conceptual fantasy for Sad Night Dynamite. The video opens with the duo traversing the city in a white limo - a repeating metaphor from previous visuals - as a night of fun soon spirals out of control, leading them to an unplanned destination. Adric Watson's cinematography combines artificial lighting with unfamiliar angles and composition, creating an elevated yet garish aesthetic. And that is perfectly suited to the abstract concept.

Noel Smyth directs an absurd love story for DZ Deathrays' All Or Nothing. When an unwitting roadie falls in love with a mysterious, self-aware guitar and gains godlike powers, a forbidden love story ensues that threatens the fate of the world.Fitted with googly eyes and a promiscuous attitude, the guitar is an anthropomorphic seductress, who turns the roadie's - brilliantly played by Mitchell Brotz - life upside down. It's an absurd concept with very well executed effects - both prosthetic and VFX - and well worth a watch.

Inari Sirola directs a suggestive, mind-melting animation for Yellow Majesty. The video for Honey Sweet comments on today’s society, nihilism and capitalistic drive, through pastel-washed depictions of freaky little creatures who dance, bounce and fly through the air - and lick anything within their vicinity. Completely nonsensical in the best way, this refreshing dose of absurdity is a perfect antidote to our repetitive lockdown routines, and is completely absorbing from the first to last frame.