Last time we engaged with Thom Yorke and music videos, it happened to be him dancing to an abstract choreographed routine prepared by Wayne McGregor for the Radiohead video "Lotus Flower." Mr Yorke is now working on his new project, Atoms For Peace and the newly released LP Amok, and again is working in movement with McGregor and director Garth Jennings. This time, we have khaki suits and dancer Fukiko Takase and the mellow, sublime track "Ingenue."
Keith Schofield has compiled and edited stock footage to bring you this painfully ironic and delightful music video to accompany Darwin Deez's You Can't Be My Girl... and since its Tuesday, you should be enjoying yourself.
We are pretty sure that whatever video Bat For Lashes decides to make, its going to be good at this point. She has a proper track record for it. But her newest video for the track Lilies has been directed by Peter Sluszka and described as ... puppets, a flock of 2D spirits, miniature landscapes, morphing polygons, and most importantly, Natasha herself were animated to create a universe in constant flux.
Full of flesh, Ty Segall's newest video for 'Thank God for Sinners' will get you moving your body while stimulating your visual senses with some serious skin. 'Thank God for sinners, thank God for your love.... In the morning, I'll rise above.'
We love how simple the explanation for this short film is: Beach House perform outside in their atmospheric short film. The band made it a tad more clearer: We performed/recorded four songs from Bloom outdoors, in various locations that are special for us around El Paso and Tornillo, Texas. The film follows the passing of one night, starting at sunset and ending at dawn. Go, watch, now.
The video is intended to be viewed in complete darkness from maximum effect. That is what the video description warns you. So maybe you have to wait to watch this in your closet later today, because we did the full total darkness thing, and we have both a headache and sense of happiness. Animal Collective's Applesauce was directed by Gaspar Noé and features model Lindsey Wixson with elements from Paul Sharits' 1968 short film N:O:T:H:I:N:G thrown in there. Enjoy after the jump...
Grizzly Bear's newest LP, Shields, has generated a few tasty treats in the artistic music video department, but our favorite track on said album, "gun-shy", just received both animated gif and music video work by director Kris Moyes. Watch as members of Grizzly Bear look at you with creepy eyes, do their own doctor's examinations on themselves, and go a bit Dali on you.
Adam 'Lilfuchs' Fuchs is the brains behind this epic 'Flying Lotus - Zodiac Sh*t' animation that was created for Adult Swim. He performs feats that delight and astound, and as animation director at Turner Studios, he has chased wild scribbles through the badlands of television, inked epic doodles over mountains of print and apparel, and has driven herds of untamed mental concoctions into the Lands of Milk and Approval. He is based in Atlanta, GA.
We found ourselves enjoying simpler, well-executed music videos this year, and although we might have wanted an excuse to get Michelle Williams onto the website this year, but we enjoyed her role in the video for Paradise by Wild Nothing. Directed by Matt Amato, the video features airports, waterfalls, planes, and a good haircut.
June 2013: Beastie Boys IssueA Visual History and Tribute to MCA, with ADROCK, World B Omes, Glen E Friedman, Haze, Bruce Davidson, Mike Mills, Cey Adams, Alex Grey, Bill McMullen
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June 2013: Beastie Boys IssueA Visual History and Tribute to MCA, with ADROCK, World B Omes, Glen E Friedman, Haze, Bruce Davidson, Mike Mills, Cey Adams, Alex Grey, Bill McMullen