Here’s our five favourite videos to come out this week so far:
Twin Caverns, Drown
I’ve followed this Sydney duo since their first track, so I’m very excited to share their first ever video here too. As beautiful and eerie as the song itself, find yourself mesmerised by the hypnotic, sensual smokiness (literal and figurative) of their clip for Drown. Follow the story through a deep, green forest and you’ll really get into the track’s atmosphere.
Kucka, Divinity
Another song I fell in love with on first listen, Perth artist Kucka has just dropped the video for her new single Divinity. Like Twin Caverns, the video is as sensual and intimate as the single, it’s essentially Kucka in the shower, but it’s artistic and powerful beyond just being sexual – and you don’t see that too often.
Alt-J, Pusher
Wow, this was somehow unexpected. Soon in town for another series of shows, Alt-J have released a bleak video for Pusher. It’s gloomy and strange, featuring businessmen in dark suits standing around a single man yelling/preaching, breaking down and eventually snapping his own neck. One of their most intimate songs, the video is emotional and incredibly confronting.
The Prodigy, Wild Frontier
In town this week for Future Music Festival, The UK electronic stalwarts have released the third track – and video – off their upcoming album The Day Is My Enemy. The funny little clip features a series of animated characters, mostly dealing with hunting, roadkill, motorcycle accidents and one moose’s revenge. I’m not so sure about the song but I love this clip.
Public Service Broadcasting, Go
Ahead of their album release later this week, these space age artists have released another space-age video. Recordings from space flights intertwine with synths, and the video kind of does the same – black and white scenes of controllers and control rooms mashed up with clean shots of the band and their instruments. It’s simple and beautiful, with a lot of little visual delights throughout.
Hey y’all! Welcome to the first edition of our brand new weekly video-roundup, where I post some of my favourite new music clips from the past week. Enjoy!
Highasakite, Leaving No Traces
Anyone who’s read my stuff for a while knows how much I love Norway’s Highasakite. A ‘concept video’ addressing the relationship between nature and culture, there’s some brilliant stop-motion and some utterly eerie empty symbolism in this one, topped off by an endlessly catchy, yodel-friendly track. Catch these guys at Laneway!
Adria, Pull Me Under
I posted up about Adria’s new single Pull Me Under last week, and here’s the video to go along with it! A sexy slow-burner with a deep, driving bass and a swish piano countermelody, the intimate black and white clip really encapsulates the sensuality of it all, without being predictable or boring for a moment.
Public Service Broadcasting, Gagarin
Spacemen, funk music, radio space samples and jammin’ guitars. Were the dancing astronauts an homage to one of America’s best dance music websites? We’ll never know, but everything about this video and the song is infectiously fun.
Run The Jewels, Oh My Darling (Don’t Cry)
It’s a fairly stock standard hip hop clip but, like their music, still manages to stay miles ahead of anything else. The naked woman is as graceful as she is sexy, the weird video-manipulations stretching out the scenes is strange and new. As hip hop clips go, this is great.
EMRSN, About Love
A perfect blend of treble future-beats and seductively smooth R&B, this is probably my favourite video clip this week. The video is simple – it’s just a face, but separated and split up by disconnected squares. It’s that contrast – the utter basic with the totally new – that makes this so interesting. Watch as the squares slowly come together like the Rubik’s Cube you never knew it was.
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders, Her Hands
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders have been making all sorts of a name for themselves recently. Set at Sydney’s Town Hall, the simple yet super interesting video features Jack and a blonde, married cross-dresser sitting together, before parting ways and cautiously following each other around – or is she running from him? We’ll never know.