The first release from alt-rock legends Sleater-Kinney new album, A Little Rope, out in January 2024, is accompanied by a video, featuring director/writer/artist/actress Miranda July, and directed by acclaimed cinematographer Ashley Connor, which reflects the layers of pain at the heart of the song Hell. Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein suffered a personal tragedy last year, and the song is informed with her grief, interpreted by July in a powerful, highly theatrical and abstract performance piece. She flips between states of near mania, like a soul seeking pleasure as a relief from pain, to lonely desolation, always within the relentless gaze of Connor's camera.The ingenuity is how the energy of July's heightened performance runs counter to the energy of the song, which makes it more intense, bringing the lyrics more into focus, turning it into a great artistic (and strongly feminist) statement on the agony of loss.And in the end? She's still getting back up, and dancing.

Connor Gilhooly's well-crafted video for Gengahr's Heroine builds a sensual experience based upon the legendary archetypes of a sleeping princess and her chivalric hero, using projections and colour separation to create a certain amount of sexual ambiguity. With the overlaying of red and blue imagery - reminiscent of the red and cyan of anaglyph 3D - covering both the 'romance' and the band performance, its a pleasingly sensual video that fits the track wonderfully.

Los Angeles alt-rockers De Lux team up with Nick Walker for this cool and funny animated promo for It Works All The Time. A Felix The Cat-type character whiles away the hours on death row recounting all the boozing, gambling, dealing, thieving, rucking and romping moments in his past life...