videoThe Maccabees 'Marks To Prove It' by Joe ConnorThe Maccabees are back after three years, with a third album due out in the summer paired with an exciting music video trilogy by Joe Connor.This first video, for the recently unveiled single Marks To Prove it, is part-documentation of the Elephant and Castle area through time-lapse footage, part-surreal narrative, with cutaways to the band in their rehearsal-space formation.The video follows a suited city-dweller on an average London commute, through satisfyingly high-energy time lapse footage. Suddenly the documentatary-style video turns into something else altogether, as the man walks into a puddle and falls into a parallel universe. "The album has eventually found itself with a specific set of musical and lyrical themes," explains Maccabees guitarist Felix White, "And though our original brief was pretty loose, we knew that we wanted to explore place, particularly Elephant & Castle, where our studio is based, and the idea that there are a variety of things in everyday life that we learn to accept as natural rhythm but are in fact either disconcerting or odd or beautiful or surreal."There was also innovation in the way the video was shot - as Joe Connor explains below - to offer a new perspective on city life. And overall there's a sense of unpredictability about this first video in the trilogy that makes the viewer hungry for more...