6 New Videos You Need To See
Each week we round-up the best (and worst) new music videos out there
With the advent of high-speed internet, we’re living in a bit of a golden age for the music video – but we’re also reaching a point where you see at least one of the bloody things every time you open your eyes.
The question is, how do you know which videos are stone cold classics and which are just dust in the wind of the World Wide Web?
As usual, we’re here to help! We’ve rounded up the most notable clips from the last seven days from the far-flung recesses of the internet.
Check them out after the drop.
MIA – Borders
Director: MIALast week MIA shared her latest single Borders. The song questions the politics of immigration and its video is suitably charged.
The clip, directed by MIA herself, sees the singer at a border surrounded by refugees struggling to climb huge fences before she sets sail on a hugely overcrowded boat. It paints a stark picture of the issues facing the world’s displaced population.
Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime
Director: Mat WhitecrossThere will come a time when Coldplay go full circle. Everyone will pretend they’ve always loved Parachutes and that Chris Martin is a total style icon. He will grace the cover of The Fader and he will be repositioned as the tortured artistic outsider he’s always been.
That time is not now.
What’s going on with Coldplay right now? Well, Coldplay just released a music video featuring the kind of CGI that wouldn’t feel anachronistic in a production of Hamlet. An offensively branded music video that features Andy Serkis. A video that positions the band as the progenitors of our very species.
That’s what’s going on with Coldplay right now.
Tame Impala – The Less I Know The Better
Director: CanadaTame Impala’s Currents has birthed some weird-ass videos so far, including the nightmare-inducing faceless 3D figures of ‘Cause I’m A Man, and the aeroplane horror of Let It Happen, but the video for The Less I Know The Better really does take the cake.
The storyline seems to run thus: a girl gets with a guy, girl is dreaming all the while of the basketball team’s gorilla mascot, guy kills the triumphant gorilla with a basketball to the chest. U wot mate?
Rustie - First Mythz
Director: Daniel SwanRustie’s latest visual offering is a cross between Jaws, those old holiday films your dad used to make and The Simpsons’ show-within-a-show Seizure Bots.
First Mythz is taken from the Scottish producer’s recent surprise album EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE and its laser shot synths and rapid fire beats are perfectly complimented by painfully strobing shots of dolphins, jet skis and old people walking on the beach.
Not Waving – Get Serious
Director: Sean RoggA few months back Alessio Natalizia aka Not Waving delivered a serious selection for our Crack Mix series. It was a convulsive collection of gloomy EBM, techno and electro and we’ve been hooked on his own productions too.
Get Serious is taken from Not Waving’s Diagonal Records debut and features some familiar faces associated with the label including Pan’s Bill Kouligas, Laetitia, DEBONAIR, Russell Haswell, Jaime Williams, Bo Ningen, Helm, Lorenzo Senni, Mumdance, Logos, Powell and a bunch more friends from the Diagonal family.
Doughboyz Cashout: Dre Armany - Outro
Director: Jerry ProductionOutro is taken from Dre Armany’s Not Guilty mixtape and the clip is pretty much a full DBC posse cut. Its super-long shots and seamless transitions kind of make this whole video feel like the opening scene of Boogie Nights but with more motorbikes. Just what we’ve always wanted.
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