Julianna Barwick – “One Half” (Official Video)

The summer kicked off with Julianna Barwick’s “One Half” from her upcoming album Nepenthe and comes to a close (yep, sorry) with a video for the track. What starts off with looming portrait shots that build like the song turns into a celestial forest and odd picnic scene as the cut ascends into balladry.

Basement Jaxx – “What A Difference Your Love Makes”

While the video for Basement Jaxx’s “What A Difference Your Love Makes” hinges on a narrative of a mother and her sons (and a very literal interpretation of the song’s title) the primary meat of the clip is all dance. From the first dance scene, I was immediately reminded of Tofo Tofo, the Mozambican dance crew who inspired the choreography fro Beyoncé’s “Run The World” video. Their style of dance, which is called “pantsula,” is the kind of intricate footwork featured here. The video was shot in Alexandra, Johannesburg, South Africa’s oldest township, where pantsula originated.

The So So Glos – “Dizzy”

The So So Glos give visual treatment to “Dizzy,” the closing cut from their recent album Blowout, and their collaborators could not being any better. Facilitated by the L.A.-based nonprofit OMG Everywhere!, who set up week-long video workshops with children, the video for “Dizzy” features the Brooklyn band and a whole mess of kids jamming on cardboard instruments with googly eyes glued to their faces and just generally wreaking havoc in the most wholesome and adorable way.

Rhye – “3 Days” (Official Music Video)

“3 Days” is nestled right in the middle of Rhye’s excellant debut album Woman, and now the duo consisting of Mike Milosh and Robin Hannibal have released a music video for it. Made up of re-appropriating vintage footage of exotic dancers the band refers to it as “a calvacade of found footage cabaret.” It reminds me a bit of Man Man’s recent found-footage music video and both capture a melancholic tone with these edited together bits of film.

Quasimoto – “Catchin’ The Vibe” Video

Earlier this year the great Lord Quas (the alter-ego of Madlib) released a pretty great rarities compilation called Yessir Whatever. Now there’s a video for the track “Catchin’ The Vibe” that features a vinyl crafting garbage man. Now when I say garbage man I don’t mean like a state appointed refuse collector — I mean the video literally stars a man made out of garbage. Much like Quasimoto (the character) the man seems beyond that of a normal human. The song is great, but the most memorable part of the video is when the strange sketch manages to sell some of the vinyl he worked so hard to press.

Arcade Fire To Score Spike Jonze’s Her

Arcade Fire season is approaching quickly: As rumors abound about the band’s upcoming fourth record (due out in October, they told one lucky fan on Twitter) and its supposed name, news has broken that Arcade Fire has also scored the newest Spike Jonze film, Her, which hits theaters this November.

Her is a sci-fi romantic comedy that stars Joaquin Phoenix (long time no see!), Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Scarlett Johansson as the voice of a super-intelligent computer operating system. The film, Jonze’s follow-up to his take on Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, is not the director’s first collaboration with the band: Where The Wild Things Are used Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” in its trailer, and Jonze directed the short film/long-form music video for their 2010 release The Suburbs.

Given their experience as collaborators, the film should be a comfortable fit. Check the intriguing trailer, and watch out for the credit: “Music by Arcade Fire.”

Born Ruffians – “Needle” Video

Born Ruffians seem to be exorcising youth demons in their song “Needle” but its video is full of young, fun-loving YOLOing. Concert scenes are punctuated with rooftop hangs, late night taco truck stops, photobooth laughs, and more.

King Krule - Easy Easy (Official Video)

It really is one of the best songs of the summer, and this newly released video embraces that quality with shots of Marshall and his friend smoking, sitting on the train, drinking, and hanging out rooftops. It captures that feeling of being young in the summer when long strings of days doing nothing feel indescribably significant. Marshall is a hell of a personality here too, singing to the camera with the kind of cockiness of a rapper, even his friend poses behind him at times like a hypeman (albeit a silent one.) It makes sense when you think of lyrics like “Same old bobby, same old beat/ well they got nothin’ on me,” and the sparse instrumentation – just enough of a foundation for his incredible vocals.

Yo La Tengo – “Is That Enough” (Official Video)

Yo La Tengo’s charming video for “Ohm,” the opening track from their great new album Fade, splits its time between two things: A fantastical animated journey through a psychedelic imaginary universe, an an extended math problem full of music-dork wordplay. YLT’s new video for the lovely, lilting Fade track “Is That Enough” serves as a sequel to that “Ohm” video, and it focuses on the side of that video that everybody liked: The math part! If you can make it through all the whiteboard scribbling, there’s a fun cameo at the end. Donick Cary directs.

Laura Veirs - “Sun Song”

“Sun Song” is a prettily low-stakes indie-folk amble from the Pacific Northwestern singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, and it boasts a backing vocal from Neko Case, which is a pretty good thing to boast. The song’s new video superimposes an image of Veirs over crackling stock footage of clouds and fairgrounds and seagulls.

Medicine – “It’s Not Enough” (official video)

You ever get floaters? You know what I’m talking about — when something really, really small kind of floats on your eye and you get that weird ghosting image. It’s common, pretty much harmless, and actually kind of cool when it happens. Well the recently reunited shoegazers Medicine must have thought it was cool too, since the phenomenon is referenced in their new video for “It’s Not Enough.” It’s a simple effect, but it works really well with the band’s warped pop music.

Sigur Rós – “Stormur” Video

The video that I saw for Sigur Rós’ “Stormur” will not be the video that you see for the track. It won’t be the video any of my co-workers sees or any of the rest of the Stereogum community checks out. The band has set up a website that collects videos from Instagram with the tag #Stormur and uploads them to a site that plays an ever-evolving clip for the song. Check out the video here.

M83 – “Claudia Lewis” Video (Feat. Lily Collins)

Lily Collins stars in M83′s video for “Claudia Lewis” from 2011′s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. The clip, directed by The Help actress Bryce Dallas Howard, is the perfect visual representation of Anthony Gonzalez and co.’s interplanetary-meets-’80s teen flick ephemera sound, featuring an Collins as an otherworldly girl navigating a high school crush.

Kings Of Leon – “Supersoaker” Video

Along with a new single, Kings of Leon have also dropped the music video for “Supersoaker” today. In our initial post on the song, Michael mentioned how even though the band has definitely moved on from the “Southern Strokes” tag, this song actually does sound a lot like the Strokes, and the video reminds me of them too. We’ve got pretty standard rock video tropes here: the band is playing, often mugging for the camera, while surrounded by beautiful woman that they never seem to notice. Thanks to an Instagram-esque filter the video gains its modern twist, ironically, by how dated it looks.

Au Revoir Simone – “Somebody Who” Official Video

The reverb-happy, harmony-heavy New York synth trio Au Revoir Simone took four years to follow up their debut album Still Night, Still Light, but that sophomore effort Move In Spectrums is almost here, and now there’s a video for the lightly percolating first single “Somebody Who.” The vaguely disquieting clip, from the directing team HARRYS, has all three members standing glassy-eyed and motionless in an empty mansion, singing the song. They look like they’ve been hypnotized, which is weird, since they’re usually the ones doing the hypnotizing. (I haven’t seen them live, but every report I’ve seen indicates general rapture.)

Chvrches – “The Mother We Share” Video

Glaswegian synthpop trio Chvrches’ video for “The Mother We Share,” the song the group played on Fallon earlier this summer, starts out looking like a standard romantic-longing story, but that’s before its protagonist learns her mutant power. The best reason to watch the video, though, might be the artfully shot footage of the group performing. Good song, too.

DJ Fresh Vs. Diplo – “Earthquake” (Feat. Dominique Young Unique)

The fizzy dance-rap track “Earthquake” is a collaboration between Diplo and DJ Fresh — the British drum & bass one, not the producer of evocative and ’80s-reminiscent Bay Area cult-rap — and it features the Florida party-rapper Dominique Young Unique. It’s the first single from Fresh’s debut solo album, which is coming next year, but it’s getting a video now because it also appears on the soundtrack to Kick-Ass 2. And so you probably won’t be surprised to learn the the clip features Dominique — in eye-patch and earrings shaped like ninja stars — leading a crew of off-brand superheros (and one Slimer-looking kaiju) through scenes of New York mayhem. Watch the cartoonish, ridiculous, Jonas & Francois-directed clip.

Animal Collective – “Monkey Riches” (Official Video)

Animal Collective’s characteristically freaky new video for “Monkey Riches,” an extended wigout from last year’s Centipede Hz, tells the heartwarming story of a maniacal wizard who does phallic things with lengths of rope, and of his hapless assistant, who plunges down a well and into a psychedelic rope-world. Jack Kubizne directed the video, and the best thing about it is probably the nightmare-logic stop-motion animation, which reminds me of Hellraiser II. (Where I come from, that’s the highest of compliments.)