Megan Thee Stallion gets ready to shed her skin in Douglas Bernardt's spectacular Director's Cut for Cobra. We open with the artist crawling through the insides of a giant snake, resurfacing in a mysterious jungle. If ever there was a way to do a comeback, this is it. Launching into a montage of slick vignettes which blur the line between fashion and surrealism, the video has a selection of standout moments - including Megan ripping the skin from her face and performing a captivating dance routine in the middle of a prehistoric landscape. Unabashedly confident and unique, the video feels elevated and inspired, and sets the scene for an exciting new era for the artist.

Elliott Gonzo directs an cinematic promo for Tom Walker, where a young man discovers a burning easel in the middle of the forest. The video for Burn sees the character - played by Joshua James Smith - overcome with emotion as he watches the mysterious painting on the easel engulfed in flame. Then, foreshadowing the events to come, he is struck by lightning, before the entire forest starts to burn around him. Interspersed with high-energy performance sections, the video burns brightly across its two and a half minute runtime, before building to a fiery climax. With an earthy colour palette and frenetic cinematography, the video is beautiful to look at, and the balance of abstract narrative and performance checks all the boxes.

Charles Gall directs a glitchy analogue promo for Solomun's remix of Purple Disco Machine, NBT & Duke Dumont's Something On My Mind. The aesthetic is like VHS on acid, with defective textures and patterns which melt into trippy lo-fi footage of a mysterious woman. A complete cacophony of clashing visual elements, which suit the experimental electronic sounds in the remix and boast a sense of retrofuturistic nostalgia.

Andrew Thomas Huang returns to music videos with a beautifully crafted promo and a thrilling shift in visual style for multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer and vocalist Alexandra Drewchin - aka Eartheater. Boasting a late 90's aesthetic, with the sensibility of cosmetics and fragrance commercials of the period, the visual for Crushing sees the artist explore a decadent mirrored room, interspersed with unique performance vignettes. Snapshots of a narrative - which involve the artist form glassware, drink from it and then shatter it with her voice - adds to the considerably alluring atmosphere. Huang captures the laidback, transcendent feel of the track, and with the camera constantly moving, never quite revealing a single portrait of Eartheater until late in the piece, the video maintains its sense of mystery and excitement throughout. Video screens of HD footage of Eartheater, video frames within frames, and terrific stylised cinematography by Laura Merians Goncalves eightens this feeling of otherworldliness.It's visually breathtaking, as one would expect from this masterful director, but also a real departure from his previous work. It's also confident enough to end the piece with a section of BTS video revealing a moment in its making. That simply adds to the magic.