Sleaford Mods lament the state of the UK in the brilliant video for UK GRIM. Directed by iconoclastic collage artist and satirist Cold War Steve, the video features a lo-fi patchwork of cutout still images and animation, perfectly suited to visualise the band's message about the damage wrought on Britain by years of Conservative rule and Brexit. In the fashion of his vibrant artworks, Cold War Steve creates information-packed compositions depicting the likes of Farage and Rees-Mogg, Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch and Boris Johnson, presiding over Hellish landscapes of a collapsing Britain. With suitably bold imagery, the artist captures the chaos of the country with a nod to the work of 16th century artist Breughel, which also gets included in Cold War Steve's crowded collages. A brilliantly appropriate and timely satire.

Ja Humby explores the lengths some bands will go to for success, in this rip-roaring satire on the modern day music biz for shame. The video for Fingers Of Steel reveals the 'truth' behind the group's hype... it's the work of evil genius front-man Charlie Steen, who has forcefully enlisted his bandmates in a click farm operation generating fake likes and comments on their own social media posts. Steen plays the villainous role to perfection, bare-chested and manic throughout, as self-obsessed as he is demanding, as he bullies his bandmates into submission. And their musical instruments go unplayed as they churn increasingly outlandish comments online. Blending narrative with glitchy animation and a 90's thriller-esque colour scheme, the video is sharp, funny and works really well with the track - remarkably it was apparently turned around in a week - and Steen's hip thrusting will stay in your mind long after watching... It also represents a triumphant reunion between the band and Ja Humby, who worked together on the faux doc and live performance film, Live In The Flesh for the director's Molten Jets project."Conceived and delivered in one week with very little sleep, the frontman was somehow more narcissistic off-camera than he is on it - humping thin air between barrages of punches," claims Humby. "His hips would spasm when he caught himself in the mirror, despite the tantrum-induced snot bubbles no one dared to point out."Huge thank you to everyone involved in this brutally honest depiction of a modern band’s struggle for fame."

Jay Green reunites with Kam-BU to deliver a biting and very timely state-of-the-nation satire to accompany the rapper's fierce polemic against the current Conservative government. Kam-BU's lyrics for Eton Mess speak about how current government legislation treats the working class population with contempt, and how the Tory party is making a mockery of the British political landscape. In the video, the artist is working in a corner shop, while the latest in a series of puppet prime ministers - Richard Fibber - is making false promises on TV.Inspired by the most famous of all puppets, Green has Fibber's nose get ever-larger and longer, Pinnochio-style, as he spins out more lies, and makes more backroom deals. Meanwhile Kam-BU is the disillusioned everyman who stands up to him and the government, taunting him online and off. And with an uncanny sense of art representing life, the lying and cheating soon catches up to the man in charge.With a captivating, fast-moving style, including superb use of both prosthetics, VFX and animation, Green packs a huge amount into the less-than- two minute running time - and sends a message of hope that good people can still bring bad people to account.

Global disaster looms in Dan Searle's action-packed promo for Architects.In the video for Tear Gas - once again directed by the band's co-founder and drummer - the group play panicked scientists manning planet earth's main control centre, as disaster threatens life as we know it. Intercutting between a playful narrative - where 80s wigs and satire take centre stage - and a slick performance in an enigmatic industrial setting, it's a new look for Architects, and they wear it very well indeed.

Brock Neal Roberts directs a chilling black comedy about urban youth in his latest collaboration with Jeshi.The video for Generation, the rapper's pin-sharp critique of a troubled society, explores the complex issues facing the youth of today - from drugs to violence to an unhealthy reliance on digital technology - cleverly encapsulated in a fly-on-the-wall aesthetic. From a vantage point high above the ground, the camera settles on a series of unfolding narratives, before quickly panning away and seeking out the next moment, involving one or more early-teen boy engaged in activities more usually associated with young men, or to Jeshi himself as on-the-spot commentator.The concept is lived out by a group of young boys, who light cigarettes for strangers, throw rocks at takeaway food delivery riders and ignore parents whilst engrossed in their phones.The cyclical nature of the concept is cleverly rounded off in the end scene, where the boys begin to throw rocks at a random neighbour's house, and the perspective switches from third person to first person, proving that we aren't only witnesses to the problems facing society, but very much a part of the tapestry.

Pierre Saba-Aris presents a revolution led by French indie outfit Feu! Chatterton to bring down the Great President in charge - played by the unmistakeable Denis Lavant.Yes, that's Denis Lavant from Holy Motors, Beau Travail - and of course, UNKLE's Rabbit In Your Headlights. Twenty-three years on from Jonathan Glazer's masterpiece, the incorrigible Lavant returns to music videos and steals the show as the vainglorious leader who controls a docile and dumbed-down population. It's the 'special glasses' that citizens wear that causes them to accept their fate - but Feu! Chatterton and their fellow revolutionaries dispense with these metaphorical spectacles, and provoke the downfall of the terrible dictator.It's stirring stuff, orchestrated with verve and vigour by Pierre Saba-Aris. But surely Lavant, the embodiment of the rebel and outsider, can't be all that bad...?