Porcelain Raft – “The Way Out” (Official Music Video)

Twitchy synthpopper Porcelain Raft will release the new album Permanent Signal in a few weeks, and the new video for the single “The Way Out” is a cinematic, conceptual affair. In one long, unbroken slo-mo tracking shot, director Michael Lawrence tells a story about a mostly-abandoned strip club and the two people who find each other there one day. You have to respect the level of work that went into something like this.

MGMT – “Your Life Is A Lie” (Official Video)

Skeletons, a talking dolphin, a poker game, a crying rock, books by “Daryl Oates” and “John Hall,” an elderly man in tighty whities, an egg pyramid, Andrew VanWyngarden as Pinocchio, and Henry Winkler (I think) consoling a teenage soccer player are some of the non-sequitor scenes you’ll see in MGMT’s video for “Your Life Is A Lie,” the first single from MGMT. And I’m barely giving anything away because director Tom Kuntz crams a ton of ideas into the two minute clip, which is also the year’s weirdest lyric video. It’s begging for the “10 Weirdest Gifs From MGMT’s New Video” treatment. Maybe you can give Buzzfeed a hand and share some in the comments.

Mumford & Sons – “Hopeless Wanderer” (Offivial Video)

British banjo-folk pastiche-kings Mumford & Sons are more famous than a motherfucker, so they don’t have to care whether you like them or not. And yet, they’ve pulled at least a couple of moves that seem directed toward making you like them at least a little bit, including the repeated casting of people you already like in their music videos. First, there was Idris Elba in “Lover Of The Light.” And now comes the “Hopeless Wanderer” video, which features an all-star cast of famous comedy bros — Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Will Forte, noted bluegrass aficionado Ed Helms — all doing their best Mumford impressions and making what might be the most Mumford video of all-time. The video stays pretty straight-faced most of the way, which only serves to further skewer the band’s deathlessly sincere old-timey pose. And honestly, isn’t it a little bit brave for a band to hire famous people to make their whole thing look stupid in their own music video? I think it is. Either way, whether you enjoy liking or detesting this band, it’s a fun video. Forte’s fake scraggle-beard is obviously amazing, but don’t sleep on Sudeikis’s fake earrings. Sam Jones directs.

Jay Z – "Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film"

Last month, Jay Z stopped by the Pace Gallery in NYC to perform “Picasso Baby” for six straight hours, rapping directly into the face of attendees one at a time. The “performance art piece” was documented for a music video of sorts, in the form of a short film titled Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film. The short film aired last night on HBO. It starts end ends with interviews with Jay Z, and features appearances by various attendees of the event including Marina Abramovic (who inspired the piece), Judd Apatow, Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter Diana Widmaier Picasso, and others.

Nelly – “Get Like Me” Video (Feat. Pharrell & Nicki Minaj)

2002 was a fun year.

Nelly – “Get Like Me” (Feat. Pharrell & Nicki Minaj) (Dir. Colin Tilley)

FKA twigs – “Water Me”

FKA twigs is a British artist — “singer” somehow doesn’t quite seem like the right word — who makes heady, obsessive, deeply personal music that musically fits with all the expansive bass-heavy music that’s come out in the wake of the xx. “Water Me” is her breakout single, and it feels important, its laid-bare relationship-talk floating through the glitched-out track from IDM producer and Kanye West collaborator Arca. Director Jessa Kanda has given the song a spellbinding visual treatment, using relatively subtle digital effects to turn FKA twigs’ face into something alien.

Telepathe – “Slow Learner”

“Slow Learner” is a new, Federal Prism-released single from Brooklyn synth-pop outfit Telepathe. For the video, the duo linked with director Dawn Garcia who took the awkwardness of an office crush and turned into a Tumblr-art-imbued weird world of anxiety and imagination. Pro-tip: If you like someone you work with, even if you’re working in design, probably best not to send him or her a .GIF of yourself. Or, try it and report back! Check out the video over at Myspace.

Sebadoh - "All Kinds" (Official Music Video)

Quick, low-rez portraits of Sebadoh.

Annie – “Back Together” (Official Music Video)

“Back Together” is the new single that brings Swede-pop queen Annie back together with Richard X, the British producer who gave her, among others, the blog-pop classic “Chewing Gum.” The track consciously evokes the breezy Euro-house of the early ’90s, and its new video does the same thing even more forcefully. The clip is a full-on period-piece, pitched as an entry on an old video-countdown show, complete with amazing clips of all the other songs in the top five. (Shout out to Utrecht Amiga Squad.)

Psychic Ills – “See You There” (Official Music Video)

The perplexed-alien-wanders-Earth-streets video is practically a music-video genre in itself, and the clip for “See You There,” a bleary churn from New York space-rockers Psychic Ills, is merely the latest example. In this one, a gigantically rubber-headed extraterrestrial gets to know Brooklyn, looming creepily in classical black-and-white. Band frontman Tres Warren directs.

Oneohtrix Point Never – “Problem Areas”

The illustrated visuals were provided by avant-garde video artist Takeshi Murata, who delivers a number of high-gloss still-lifes which include horns that look like guts, a ship inside a Gatorade bottle, ditched Coors Light cans, horror film VHS cassettes, a cat jungle gym, and more.

Wise Blood – “Alarm”

If you heard Wise Blood’s shimmering electronic bedroom-pop song “Alarm” in isolation, you might not expect that song’s video to be a dark, unresolved crime story. But then, Wise Blood has a bit of a history with dark, unresolved crime stories. So enjoy this crisply-filmed, meditative, tense story about an armed robbery’s strange aftermath.

Cody ChesnuTT – “I’ve Been Life”

In the video for “I’ve Been Life,” a searching squelch-funker from his long-in-the-works 2012 sophomore album Landing On A Hundred, the idiosyncratic soul auteur Cody ChesnuTT co-stars with a parade of elaborately masked dancing, fire-spitting guys on stilts. These guys stop traffic when the strut into the Brooklyn street, and that just makes sense; I’d hit the brakes if I saw one, too. Watch the vivid video at Rolling Stone.

Goodie Mob – “I’m Set” (Official Music Video)

Here's the new video for "I'm Set" from Goodie Mob off the album 'Age Against The Machine.' Goodie Mob is: CeeLo Green, Big Gipp, Khujo, T-Mo.

Ariel Pink & Jorge Elbrecht – “Hang On To Life”

A few weeks ago, Ariel Pink teamed up with Jorge Elbrecht, the luxe indie-pop auteur behind projects like Lansing-Dreiden and Violens, to release the weirdly smooth single “Hang On To Life” . Today, the song gets a video, which Elbrecht directed with Alejandro Cardenas, and it’s mostly made up of soft-focus shots of Pink and Elbrecht looking elegantly disheveled. There’s also some slow-motion footage of a yellow lab shaking water off, just to make the “you screwed the pooch” lyric uncomfortably literal.

Celestial Shore – “Valerie”

Brooklyn’s Celestial Shore will release their LP 10x in September. We’ve already heard their lead-off “Valerie,” which as Tom referred to as a, “dazed lurch of an album track.” Now the discordant, hazy cut gets an equally jarring collage of a video.

The Great American Canyon Band – “Lost At Sea” Video

 Matthew Riggieri-directed video, which features a girl’s race to find home and the birds that guide her there

Crocodiles – “Cockroach”

The fuzzed-out San Diego-born garage rockers Crocodiles have a new album called Crimes Of Passion coming out last month, and we posted their first single “Cockroach” a little while back. The song’s brand-new music video starts as an excessively glitchy live-footage clip, but then you notice that frontman Brandon Welchez is using a can of bug spray for a microphone. And then the guy with black undies and a cryptic message scrawled on his chest wanders into the frame, and things get really weird.