HAIM return with a sumptuous video by Camille Summers Valli for the first single from the sisters' first album since 2020.It's Summers Valli's first promos since her acclaimed work for METTE in 2023 (including Mama's Eyes, winner of Video of the Year at the UKMVAs). As with those for METTE, the director employs her considerable powers here to draw the viewer into a powerful and intimate experience with the band's lead singer Alana Haim.The video for Relationships brings us into the world of Alana and her sisters - and into the euphoria of Alana's affair with her lover, played by Drew Starkey. This is portrayed at a cinematic level consistent with a movie or high quality TV drama, and HAIM are clearly comfortable in this territory. After all, they have been regular collaborators with Paul Thomas Anderson and Jake Schreier.But there is nothing in the sister's fine canon of music videos which is quite as frank and sensual as this, nor does it forget its function as a music video. The effect is stunning.

Viagra Boys' Sebastian Murphy has a new girlfriend, and she's 3000 years old, in Eoin Glaister's video for Bog Body - a tour de force of comedy horror. Glaister essentially tells the story of the song, and as he happily admits, the subject matter plays to his particularly strengths as a director.In classic VB fashion, the track combines surly rock 'n roll power with a idiosyncratic lyric sung by Murphy - it involves a description of an ancient body being found perfectly preserved under ice in a bog, leading to his immediate adoration - and possessiveness. Eventually he insists that 'You're just jealous of her darkened skin and her dainty nose'.This quirky concept all the motivation that Glaister needs to bring a unique love story to the screen, which starts when the reanimated zombie-like Bog Body walks into a London boozer, and begins her ancient dance ritual - before Seb enters the pub whilst she's doing full splits on the pub carpet.And so their passionate affair begins, with the well-preserved ancient woman acquiring the taste for a rock 'n rolll lifestyle. What could possibly go wrong?“I love bog bodies," says Glaister. "I’m obsessed. Thank GOD someone finally wrote a song about one. Dream gig really, got to spend the day in the pub with my mates watching a Bog Lady dance to one of my favourite bands. Mammoth effort from an extraordinarily talented bunch. Up the Bog!”

According to the famous African proverb, it takes a village to raise a child - and the remarkable and emotional video for Kae Tempest's Statue In The Square could be seen as an embodiment of that idea. Kae's own village is all there with him in front of the camera lens. And also behind it.The promo for this stupendous track was created by a collective of filmmakers assembled specifically for the purpose by EP Juliette Larthe - as 5-person directing team Boy Dykes - with a huge cast from the queer and trans+ community.With so many different people on screen, and a range of in-camera devices to heighten the sensibility, elevating the urgency of the message, Kae remains front and centre. It is all, ultimately about him, proudly and fearlessly expressing his right to be a boy. It's powerful, affecting - a big moment for the artist that comes at an important moment for the community as a whole. "Our music video for Kae Tempest’s *Statue in the Square* is a powerful statement of resistance and visibility for the trans and queer community," writes the video's producer Gael Houdin-Brenac. "The song itself is an urgent, unfiltered cry against oppression, a declaration of strength in the face of systemic hatred. To honour that message, we assembled a production where 95% of the crew and cast are queer and trans+, ensuring that every aspect of the film is shaped by those who live the reality it speaks to."Directed by Boy Dykes - Juliette Larthe, Jess Kohl, Lydia Garnett, Jesse Glazzard and Romeo Roxman Gatt - the film is more than a music video; it is an act of defiance, a refusal to be erased, and a raw celebration of resilience. At a time when attacks on queer existence are intensifying, Statue in the Square stands as a counterpoint, a bold expression of identity and freedom."Every frame is infused with the energy of a community that refuses to be silenced, capturing the urgency and defiance that support the song itself."