6 New Videos You Need To See

Wrap your eyes around the most vital visuals from the last week of web

Rainy days and Mondays always get you down? Well, today is both, and I say: “forget about it misery guts”. Crying whilst your eyes dart intermittently between the calendar and the dismal downpour will get you absolutely nowhere. Watching pop videos, on the other hand, will get you everywhere.

This afternoon there’s an absolute glut of awesome clips from the last week that will get you out of that slump and into your happy place. Especially if your happy place is parked in front of your laptop with a hi-speed internet connection and several YouTube tabs open at once.

Palmistry - Club ASO

Directors: Benjy Keating & Tom Walker

Mixpak’s LDN sweetheart Benjy Keating – better known as Palmistry – has been on my radar for a minute. Needless to say I’m teeming with feels for his upcoming debut full-length, Pagan, which drops on the Brooklyn based label this June.

Pagan‘s first cut is Club Aso and it builds on Keating’s sensitive pop. The video sees Benjy layered under a green haze and clad in Cottweiler before shaky mobile phone footage takes us to a London rooftop. Coupled with Club Aso‘s sweltering lazer shots and subtle dancehall stomp I’m thinking Pagan could be the breakthrough the capital’s most overlooked pop star deserves.

Eagulls - Skipping

Director: Matthew Michael John Tully

Leeds punks Eagulls have veered away from their snot-nosed roots to channel a different kind of melancholy on their latest single: 80s nostalgia. Skipping hears the band embracing electronics with a kind of emotional gusto that would make Roland Orbazal blush, and the video itself mainly consists of a fencing-masked man and his flexing torso surrounded by strobing red and blue lights.

Very enigmatic indeed.

Dreamcrusher – Codeine Eyes

Director: Dreamcrusher

In case you’re not familiar, Dreamcrusher is the alias of Luwayne Glass; a confrontational, genderqueer, noise artist based in Brooklyn, New York.

Dreamcrusher’s latest video sees Glass in wild abandon, kicking autumn leaves and generally giving zero fucks in a park. It’s all kinds of beautiful.

Washed out filters, soft colours and nature collide with a soundtrack that’s about as tough and mechanistic as it gets.

Dreamcrusher for effing ever.

Tim Hecker - Black Phase

Director: Brett Stabler

Tim Hecker’s latest Love Streams drop Black Phase now has a video. The clip is helmed by frequent co-conspirator Brett Stabler and is typically obtuse.

The image of a blood-nosed man at the mercy of riot police is gradually obscured by pleasingly pastel coloured panels as Black Phase builds, grinds and peters out to reveal the victim writhing on the floor.

It’s a visual that stands up to the steadily hypnotic and consistently striking music Hecker has come to be known for.

Chloe x Halle – Drop

Director: ?

Chloe and Halle are a pair of Beyoncé endorsed singers who are starting to make serious waves on their own terms. Their latest video, Drop, sees them riding horses and frolicking relentlessly with their unreasonably attractive entourage in some ludicrously green fields.

Surreal, beautiful, enormous. What more could I ask for?

Kvelertak - 1985

Director: Fredrik S. Hana

This is the obligatory NSFW video of the week. Norwegian metal band Kvelertak’s latest clip sees a small group of young men graduating from mildly reckless behaviour to full-on kidnap and torture related hijinks.

“The video revolves around a micro-community, a four-man cult, where a deep and twisted friendship lies beneath it all,” says director Fredrik S. Hana. “They don’t see themselves as a part of the normal society and decide to honor their differences in a unique fellowship.”

I can totally see that, what with all the kidnapping and torturing they’ve been doing and that.

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