Josh McCartney directs Magic Medicine, a slice of retro-pharmaceutical brilliance from the powerhouse LA duo that is Deap Valley.The hard rock duo knock it out of the park once again with their signature crunch and stomp, whilst Josh McCartney delivers a beautifully twisted take on the dangers of believing in a cure-all.Shot in a nostalgic, TV cable aesthetic, the video is focused on a number of faux medical adverts, featuring a flurry of stock footage overlaid with funky text and hilarious throwbacks to 90's public access television.

The reign of Deepfake continues, in Yasser Abubeker's surreal promo for Shygirl's BDE featuring Kaydy Cain.For the Florentino Remix of the track, the team have created a deep dive into the 'uncanny valley', as various celebrity couples are distorted and manipulated to have the artists' faces.Brilliantly warped and engaging, the visual takes everyday stock footage of these celebrities, and elevates them to absurd heights. Watching them one after another gets very trippy, so be warned! It's brilliant work.

American-born, Canadian-raised singer-songwriter Suzie Ungerleider turned to fellow musician and animator Christine Fellows to create the collage-effect stop-motion video created from hundreds of cutout photos and paintings, for Baby Blues.The track comes from Ungerleider's tenth solo album, due for release in August, which also marks the beginning of a new chapter. The two-time Canadian Juno Award nominee has enjoyed a distinguished career as Oh Susanna, and this is the first release since announceing she would record and perform under her birth name.The accompanying video by Fellows is a captivating interpretation of the song's lyrics, thorugh the repeated use of a series of existing graphics to create a warmly nostalgic mid-20th century feel.

The Chemical Brothers' first single in two years comes with their first aollaboartion with RUFFMERCY - and not before time. It's utterly trademark RM stuff, and that works brilliantly with one of the Chems' most upbeat creations.“The Darkness That You Fear is a hopeful piece of music," says Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers. "When we found the combination of the different voices worked set to the flow of the music it made us feel optimistic, like it was something we wanted to share.”RUFFMERCY has responded by transfoming archive footage of British rave and festival culture when The Chemical Brothers first emerged in the early Nineties. His distinctive abstract painterly animation style is applied to the vintage footage to create an astonishing tour de force of visual creativity. There's only one RUFFMERCY. And he's brilliant!

BWTV continue their collaboration with Sir Tom Jones in this colourful new promo for Pop Star. A remake of a track by Cat Stevens, the light-hearted romp is complemented by a saturated selection of repurposed stock footage, featuring excited kids and their musical fantasies. Cleverly cut to appear as if they are lip-syncing to the words, the concept is timeless and universal, and embodies Sir Tom's feel-good attitude.

Scottish national treasures KT Tunstall and Alan Cumming form an unexpected yet dynamic duo, to deliver a moving cover of Dougie MacLean’s 1977 classic Caledonia.The accompanying video, artfully cut together by Christopher M. Anthony, features a montage of beauty shots of their wild homeland, and is adorned with Tunstall’s handwritten lyrics - much like her iconic video for Other Side Of The World back in 2004.This adds a personal touch, which all adds up to a refreshingly contemporary take on this beloved old favourite.

Maxim Kelly teams up with South London alt-rockers Shame to create a masterful reimagining of archive footage for new single Nigel Hitter.Applying deepfake technology onto film from mid-20th century child developmental research, Kelly drops the band - frontman Charlie Steen, in particular - into the world of vintage equipment, whitecoated medics and lots of babies, undergoing all manner of tests and examinations. It's all part of the project led by that man who introduces the film and has his name on the front of the hospital... Nigel Hitter, MD.The effect of this clever refashioning of the past is both funny and creepy - which becomes more pronounced when the babies 'learn' to sing the lyrics of the song, and the human babies' number is increased by a painfully thin baby rhesus monkey. Now we are sliding into David Cronenberg territory of curious institutions, strange experiments and unfeasibly gifted toddlers.You could also argue that the video is also a kind of reflection on the past year - a relentless testing of human behaviour, where the medical profession play a prominent role. It echoes the manner in which the song, which features on the band's new album Drunk Tank Pink (out on Friday, 15th January). As Steen explains, it started life as the band adjusted to being locked down at home, having spent much of their adult life on tour. “Nigel Hitter is one of the vital organs of Drunk Tank Pink," he says. "A necessary pulse. Focused on daily routine, repetition, and how extraordinary any ordinary task seemed to me after coming home from touring. A world of percussion and joy lies within.” And Maxim Kelly was clearly inspired by the lyrics in coming up with the concept behind the video. The way he has executed that idea into the finished work - with the help of his team, including DoP Franklin Dow, editor Charlie Reddie and VFX artist RoBert Chandler - is nothing short of a marvel.

Just in case you have been yearning to return to office life, Swedish directing collective Stylewar are on hand to remind you of the dystopian horror that awaits, in their brilliant video for Bronson - created, of course, entirely in lockdown.The video for the DJ/producer's Keep Moving has been entirely created by stock footage - super-bright, super-idealised images of the delights of the corporate world - rendered strange, ominous and downright loopy by Stylewar's disruptive take on visual effects.While we start in the perfection of the stock footage world, Bronson's beats then break through the banality of the daily commute, the 9-to-5, the daily conference and Powerpoint presentation. The laws of physics are broken, tables and chairs and people all tumble to the rhythm as things descend into mayhem and madness. And Stylewar also manage to pay tribute to one of the iconic images of classic rock - the flaming businessman on the cover of Pink Floyd's album Wish You Were Here. In fact, Stylewar did more invisible tampering of the original footage to create their satirical version of office life than is immediately evident. The collective worked with longtime collaborator editor, Noah Herzog, to unearth the perfect stock footage to use as the spine of their brilliant satire. After sourcing the appropriate material, they shot matching close-ups of mouths that are lip-syncing the lyrics. They also built the offices in full CG that matched the look of the stock footage.In the same way that Darwin Deez's presence disrupts the perfection of idealised stock imagery in Keith Schofield's brilliant video for You Can't Be My Girl, Stylewar have created a subversive visual masterpiece but with the additional layer of satire. That makes for one of the most creative, thought-provoking and enjoyable music videos made during lockdown.