Almost 45 years after the release of the original, The Specials' Ghost Town has been covered by Irish alternative folk outfit Lankum in spine-tingling fashion. Leonn Ward's hugely atmospheric video pays homage to the mood of this new version while also paying homage to the classic original video. Just as in the 1981 video for The Specials, this visual for Ghost Town finds the band performing in a car, eyes to camera as the environment shifts around them - in this case, it's rural Ireland. Shot by Robbie Ryan, with breathtaking landscape shots and powerful cutaways, it's a disarming visual that hits you right in the core. “The first time I heard the track it floored me - pure emotion and strength," Ward explains. "The fractured world we live in today is in plain sight."There’s a weight and uncertainty more than ever, in my lifetime anyway. So it was important to both myself and Lankum to create a piece of work that felt honest; one that didn’t shy away from vulnerability yet carried lightness and perseverance all at once without overpowering it."It’s not about despair, it’s about resilience. The track holds immense power and I wanted to echo that, creating something with a real sense of endurance and resistance, a reflection of how people try to hold on to meaning in a collapsing world."I centred the band in the car as a nod to the iconic original video. And there was something powerful about these two scenes together; the strength from the band performing in the car merged with the man’s solitary journey, they begin to speak to one another. And though they never meet, there’s a sense that they’re sending each other something; strength, endurance, hope.”

Billy King directs a darkly comedic promo for Sasha Keable, who is going to extraordinary lengths to not feel numb any more. The video for Feel Something features Sasha performing from inside her overturned car following an accident. Billy King - who recently signed to CANADA for music videos and branded content - gives this catastrophic scenario another playful twist.Not only covered in cuts and bruises, Sasha may not have made it through the accident alive. No wonder she would like to feel something... With surreal doppelgangers, abstract backdrop vignettes and a tongue-in-cheek approach, it's a visual feast that places Keable front and centre, and is very effective indeed.

Baptiste Penetticobra directs an impassioned, offbeat promo for French-Congolese singer Tshegue. The video for Plus De Place Nulle Part sees the artist in a car at night, with three teenagers in the back seat. As the music starts to play, the energy begins to ramp up, until they are all possessed by the track and thrashing around dancing. It's a curious, brilliantly executed concept, which feels like it could delve into found footage horror at any time (which is the magic of the abyss-like location, and the lack of any context to the car's whereabouts). "Something I used to do when I was a pre-teen was go sit in my parent's car, parked in the garage of our suburban house, and blast a song at full volume," explains Penetticobra. "I specifically remember doing this with 'MUSIC' by Madonna. First, because the sound system in the Citroën Xsara Picasso wasn’t too bad, and second, because the inside of the car felt like a kind of “bubble”; a physically and sonically isolated space, outside of time. It was an experience in itself."I have vivid memories of those moments. Not long ago, I came across a TikTok showing a father and his two kids singing Queen inside their car, filmed from afar by his wife. That’s exactly what I used to do."