Noel Paul teams up with math rock tyros black midi to create an extraordinary visual for the latest release for their new album Hellfire - released today - bringing the outlandish lyrics of Sugar/Tzu to life as a brutal, utterly surreal boxing match.Visceral and colourful in equal measure, with pulsatingly textural cinematography by Jake Scott, Paul has created a scenario that places the action within the untethered logic of a dream - or nightmare. It's a mesmerizing visual accompaniment to an intense stream-of-unconsciousness from vocalist Geordie Greep, that's tied closely to the lyrics' off-kilter, wildly random subject matter.Greep makes as close to an appearance in the video as you get from the band themselves - providing lipsync to the rhesus monkey that acts as master of ceremonies for the contest. And in the song, this lurid display of pugilistic prowess is interrupted by the actions of a young boy who approaches ringside, and pulls out a shooter.The campaign for the new black midi album has already produced two videos that are blinders - Gustaf Holtenäs's video for Hell; Maxim Kelly's for Eat Men Eat - and this is just as good. It really packs a punch.

A self-destructive twentysomething regains his sense of self-worth in a boxing club in Danny Chan's stirring video for singer-songwriter Declan J Donovan. This is a tale of redemption which has both a classic structure and a very contemporary feel, addressing issues of masculinity in a rapidly changing world. This has a gritty, almost documentary film look, and the performances have an energy and passion that comes from experience. As Danny Chan reveals below, his cast of unknowns have all learned important lessons in character-building in the boxing ring. Intercut with a performance by Donovan in the same Islington boxing gym, DoP David Wright's cinematography, including frenetic closeups of fighting and training, also places the viewer in the protagonist's shoes - a journey of frustration, guilt, ultimately discovery and redemption.

In Jamie-James Medina's layered new video for Iggy Pop, premiered on Nowness, vintage footage of a boxing match - a world title fight held in Africa - shares space with Iggy's reflective performance of the Josh Homme-produced American Valhalla, within a square that obscures most of the person behind it - model Ruth Bell - until the very end.The fight we see is a contest between boxers Dick Tiger and Gene Fullmer that took place in Nigeria in 1963. But you'd be forgiven for thinking about the late Muhammad Ali while watching it, and his own fight in Africa, and arguably his greatest victory, in The Rumble In The Jungle. And of course, with the sad passing of the man known as The Greatest, there are few people who could ever hope to aspire to that title, in any field. But Iggy might be one of them.