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Foals ‘Late Night’ by Nabil
While Foals perform in an Eastern European hotel bar, life goes on in the rooms upstairs in Nabil Elderkin’s gripping video for Late Night. In fact, the brass tacks of human existence are played out...
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Nadine Shah ‘Dreary Town’ by Matthew Barton
Director Matthew Barton matches the emotional intensity of singer Nadine Shah with this interesting relationship piece, featuring a sterling performances from both male lead Gareth Murphy and Nadine...
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Sweet Baboo ‘If I Died…’ by Casey Raymond
The enormous disembodied head of Steve Black, aka Sweet Baboo stalks his ex-girlfriend in Casey Raymond’s charming lo-fi video for the instantly catchy If I Died… However, it does suffer a bit from the...
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Lianne La Havas ‘Elusive’ and ‘Gone’ by Colin Solal Cardo
Mercury Prize-nominated jazz-soul wunderkind Lianne La Havas now has an epic two part video set to add to her belt. Director Colin Solal Cardo has created a romantic yarn with a suitably tragic...
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Roman ‘Aftermaths’ by Federico Urdaneta
Federico Urdaneta has chosen to create five mini ‘teaser’ style videos for mysterious newcomer ROMAN rather than a standard promo. It works well, with each film relating to a day of the week. These...
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Phoenix ‘Entertainment’ by Patrick Daughters
The band are French, the director is American (now based in Paris) – and the video is Korean. That is, Patrick Daughters has taken Phoenix’s Entertainment – the first single from long-awaited new...
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Biting Elbows ‘Bad Motherfucker’ (Insane Office Escape 2) by Ilya Naishuller
First there was the Insane Office Escape – the video for Russian punk outfit Biting Elbows’ The Stampede, released 18 months ago, by director Ilya Naishuller – also the band’s frontman. It’s a...
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Frades & Sika “Autour D’un Verre” (feat. Seriak) by Hero
Oliver Dressen is director Hero – a sometimes Shanghai, Brussels, Paris or Budapest-based filmmaker with a penchant for special effects. However in this video, Hero exposes an obvious love for 70′s...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Sacrilege’ by Megaforce
Megaforce are not exactly strangers to controversy. But the French directing team’s video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Sacrilege is a different story from, say, the comic grossness of Is Tropical’s The...
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ArtOfficial ‘Black Birds’ by Tom Jackson
Influenced by the characters he animated on an Amiga as a kid, Tom Jackson (from digital agency RamJam) has put together a noir animation featuring gangsters, dirty cops and a little bit of magic –...
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The Electric Soft Parade ‘Brother, You Must Walk Your Path Alone’ by Ryan...
Ryan Owen Eddleston is in the director’s chair here, helping Brighton’s Electric Soft Parade bring a tear to your eye. Brothers from the band, Thomas and Alex, double on production duties in this...
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John Grant ‘Greatest Motherfucker’ by Lucy Luscombe
John Grant goofs charmingly around London, from basketball court to pet shop to Turkish barber’s, in the video for Greatest Motherfucker (from new album Pale Green Ghosts) directed by Lucy Luscombe...
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Fossil Collective ‘Wolves’ by Mike Lee Thomas
Waking up lost and bemused in a strange place is probably not many people’s ideal situation. The man in Mike Lee Thomas’ video for Fossil Collective seems suitably confused by the ordeal – especially...
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Rudimental ‘Waiting All Night’ by Nez
For Rudimental’s Waiting All Night, Nez and producer Elliott Tagg travelled to LA to reconstruct, in the form of a mini drama-documentary, the inspirational story of Kurt Yeager, a top BMX pro rider...
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Travis ‘Another Guy’ by Wolfgang Becker
There’s a new Travis album coming and rather than releasing a single, Another Guy is the ‘pre-album teaser’ for which the band have got together with German movie director Wolfgang Becker (of Goodbye...
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Majical Cloudz ‘Childhood’s End’ by Emily Kai Bock
For Montreal duo Majical Cloudz’s Childhood’s End, Emily Kai Bock returns with a surreal, cinematic tale of an old man’s daily struggle, and his flight into fantasy – including his dramatic encounter...
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‘Feel Flows’ by Paris Zarcilla
This musical short film – a personal project and major labour of love from director Paris Zarcilla – is an epic fantasy, in which a neo-tribal hunter journeys to the Oracles to seek help to keep his...
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Landshapes ‘In Limbo’ by Ian Pons Jewell
In his superb documentary-style video for Landshapes’ In Limbo, Ian Pons Jewell follows the fortunes of a girl in the Bolivian capital of La Paz, who turns out to be part of the city’s wrestling...
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Sizarr ‘Run Dry’ by Tim & Joe
Tim & Joe travelled to Berlin and the fascinating abandoned themepark Spreepark in the old Eastern sector of the city, for German indie outfit Sizarr’s Run Dry, to create this video that sets up...
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Revolver ‘Still’ By Pablo Maestres
If you’re looking for a heartwarming fantasy journey and don’t fancy hobbits or wizards then maybe Pablo Maestres’ disco-ball adventure is more what you’re looking for. It’s considerably less sinister...
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Bastille ‘Laura Palmer’ by Austin Peters
Austin Peters avoids the obvious Lynchian references, but certainly breaks down the fourth wall in his video for Bastille’s Laura Palmer, as the performance element of the video comes to an abrupt...
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RAVEYARDS ‘Together We Play’ by Cédric Blaisbois
French director Cédric Blaisbois has filled the hole left in the ‘young persons murder’ market since Daniel Wolfe’s ‘Time To Dance’ (now released over a year ago). However, this is a different video...
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Hervé ‘Lose Control’ by thirtytwo
Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern return to promos in their music video directing monicker thirtytwo to create this engaging psycho-drama for Hervé’s Lose Control, featuring Seasefire, of a middle-aged...
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Bot’Ox ft. Anna Jean ‘The Face of Another’ by Flokim Lucas
Flokim Lucas’s animated video for Bot’Ox ft. Anna Jean’s The Face of Another is a beautifully designed journey into a retro-future of sexual adventure – with a masked ‘hero’ wandering through a bazaar...
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Calvin Harris ‘I Need Your Love’ (ft Ellie Goulding) by Emil Nava
Calvin and Ellie are an item! Well, Emil Nava does a very good job in making them look like one in his video for I Need Your Love. We join them on an American road trip – all loved-up and shooting...
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Is Tropical ‘Dancing Anymore’ by Megaforce (NSFW)
A word of warning: if you’re not fantastically keen on imagery of a pornographic nature then don’t watch this video. Or if you’re in a workplace with other people that aren’t necessarily as broadminded...
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Booba ‘Jimmy’ by Greg & Lio
After their acclaimed unofficial remake of Jay Z and Kanye West’s Niggas In Paris last year, Lionel Hirlé & Grégory Ohrel – aka Greg & Lio – have followed up something even more impressive....
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Two Door Cinema Club ‘Handshake’ by Sam Pilling
There’s been more than a few tenpin bowling videos in the past, but none of them have managed to put quite the, er, spin on proceedings as Sam Pilling does for Two Door Cinema Club’s Handshake....
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Portugal. The Man ‘Purple Yellow Red & Blue’ by That Go
The Danger Mouse-produced eighth studio album of odd-rockers (and strangely punctuated) Portugal. The Man comes with an aptly bizarre bout of oddness courtesy of directing duo That Go. Half the team –...
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Mt. Wolf ‘Hypolight’ by Jean-Philippe Blunt & Thom Humphreys
Human levitation is seems to be a theme at the moment, and this video for electronic-pop trio Mt. Wolf is a fine example. Very nicely shot and with some interesting graphic perspective overlays of...
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Miles Kane ‘Don’t Forget Who You Are’ by Dan Sully
A superb video by Dan Sully for Miles Kane’s anthemic Don’t Forget Who You Are, sees a very sharply-dressed Miles going back to his roots, and combines performance with documentary footage to create a...
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Naughty Boy ‘La La La’ (ft Sam Smith) by Ian Pons Jewell
After his excellent Landshapes video documenting the wrestling community of La Paz, Ian Pons Jewell has definitely taken to Bolivia. He has now shot the video for Naughty Boy’s La La La there – and...
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Vitalic ‘Fade Away’ by Romain Chassaing
Romain Chassaing departs from his usual style of pastel colours and post-production trickery to deliver an altogether more cinematic experience for Vitalic’s Fade Away – a blackly comic procession of...
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Meridians ‘Mountains’ by Sébastien Petretti
Director Sébastien Petretti and his regular DoP collaborator Slyvain Freyens tell the tragic tale of a rather stately wedding in this polished and wonderfully styled and dressed promo for Meridians....
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Subfocus ft. Alex Clare ‘Endorphins’ by Rohan Blair-Mangat
A dark, dramatic video for Sub Focus ft. Alex Clare’s Endorphins by Rohan Blair-Mangat, set in a dystopian not-too-distant future where music is outlawed and people have to consume it illegally. And...
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Neon Neon ‘Hammer & Sickle’ by Rob Schroeder
Following their first album Stainless Style, focussed on the life of John DeLorean, Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip have revived their Neon Neon partnership with a new album, Praxis Makes Perfect, and a new...
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David Bowie ‘The Next Day’ by Floria Sigismondi
As he’s spent 2013 being praised to the heavens for his godlike genius, and most people think he can probably walk on water (and maybe even rose from the dead…) David Bowie actually plays Christ in...
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The Deets ‘Charlie’ by Nikolai Galitzine
Nikolai Galitzine has directed and shot this tale of a doomed London gangster taking a bad turn in the boxing game for the rampaging mod-rock of The Deets’ Charlie. “The Deets’ music video takes it’s...
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ÍRiS ‘Swiftly Siren’ by Peter Szewczyk
Having made a big impression with his first ever music video for The Maccabees’ Young Lions, Peter Szewczyk has not directed one for a couple of years. But now he’s made another labour of love for the...
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Skylar Grey ‘Final Warning’ by Brewer
After their brilliant video for Passion Pit’s Carried Away, the Brewer brothers Ben and Alex’s new one for Skylar Grey’s Final Warning is a more sombre, gritty affair – and also compelling. It’s a...
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‘Another Hell’ by Saam Farahmand
Saam Farahmand ventures into short film territory with this elliptical narrative that has been “inspired by the music and magic of Daughn Gibson”. Daughn is a singer-songwriter from Pennsylvania (he...
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Naive New Beaters ‘Shit Happens’ by Esteban
After their very daft tribute to the Olympics for Jersey, and a faux Hells Angels doc for La Onda, rock-rap pranksters Naive New Beaters latest Shit Happens, directed by Esteban, goes in an even more...
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Kyasma ‘Radioactivity’ by Jean-Paul Frenay
Jean-Paul Frenay delivers a riveting sci-fi thriller for Swiss rockers Kyasma and their track Radioactivity. Featuring some cool make-up SFX, the video tells the tale of a ‘looming sci-fi-etched...
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Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash & John Martin ‘Reload’ by JoDeb
Shot in the very contrasting and stunning locations of Iceland and Guatemala, JoDeb – that’s Quebec-based director and VFX whizz Jonathan Desbiens – delivers this eye-catching short for Sebastian...
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Joel Compass ‘Fucked Up’ by Ryan Patrick
Rising young British hiphop soul star Joel Compass’s tale of betrayal in Fucked Up is compellingly realised in this fine video by Ryan Patrick, via Doomsday Entertainment. Joel’s mental body leaves...
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Autoerotique ‘Asphyxiation’ by Amos LeBlanc
It’s not hard to imagine the gist of the treatment, or even the brief, for the titillating view-magnet that is the video for Autoerotique’s Asphyxiation: Huse Monferadi’s legendary Eric Prydz video...
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Waylayers ‘SOS’ by Alexander Brown
Alexander Brown delivers this highly atmospheric, driving and tasteful video for Waylayers’ SOS that captures night-time London in a cool and original way. Alexander harnesses the sweet electronic...
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Maker ‘Devotion’ by Laurence Dean
In his video for Brighton band Maker’s Devotion, Laurence Dean peers into the private lives of an attractive young couple and analyses their very strained relationship – including some passion-free...
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Motel Connection ‘Less Is More’ by Leone
The story began with Leone’s video for Motel Connection’s Midnight Sun, which introduced a sweet young lad who endures the bullies of the playground and an uncaring mother, to engage his love of disco…...
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Balthazar ‘Sinking Ship’ by Joe Vanhoutteghem
As aficianados of his videos for The Hickey Underworld will attest, Joe Vanhoutteghem’s work is unique. It’s a bleak, disturbing, violent, grubby, weirdly fathomless vision of the world. He brings the...
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