Bok Bok - “Melba’s Call” (Feat. Kelela) Video

Last year, the London producer Bok Bok worked on “Guns & Synths,” the opening track from the L.A. future-soul singer Kelela’s wonderful Cut 4 Me mixtape. Last week, Kelela returned the favor, singing on Bok Bok’s new glitch&B single “Melba’s Call.” Kelela is also in the song’s brand-new video, beaming her image into a futuristic recording studio that’s otherwise cold and deserted.

CREDITS:

art-direction by Sushon.org
production by Nic Hamilton www.nichamilton.info

LA team:
producer: Lane Stewart www.lane-stewart.com
DP: Ryan Kunkleman
camera assistant: Will Dintenfass
styling: Teena Sahebi
makeup: Jacqueline Lea Duffy
thanks: James Flemons

Arctic Monkeys - “Arabella” (NSFW) (Official Video)

Arctic Monkeys just dropped a sweaty, glamorous video for “Arabella,” a song from their badass 2013 album AM; it follows “Do I Wanna Know?,” “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High” and “One For The Road” as the album’s fourth video. In the black-and-white clip, the band plays for a house full of leather-jacketed gearheads. There are a few flashes of boob, so be advised. I’m a little sad that it doesn’t end with everyone in the house going to fight a gang of mods, but it’s still a tough, effective video.

CYMBALS - “Erosion” (Official Video)

Last fall we premiered “Erosion,” a pulsating synth dream by the superb British new wave band CYMBALS. Months later, that song swooshes back into our consciousness with a hallucinatory performance video by Matthew Reed meant to satirize internet culture. Explains Stephen Pietrzykowski of Tough Love Records, which released the band’s The Age Of Fracture this year: “the Buzzfeed/clickbait/endless-rivers-of-meaningless-shit aesthetic that’s come to dominate how a majority of people engage with the internet, and the way this was subsequently seeping into the production of art.” In this case the meaningless shit is quite striking, though.

Run The Jewels - “Run The Jewels” (Official Video)

El-P and Killer Mike's chain-snatching, poodle-shooting, antihero anthem "Run The Jewels" gets an appropriately bugged out animated video courtesy of Bristol's RUFFMERCY. Watch this at high volume, preferably in a residential area.

Directed by RUFFMERCY
DOP - Tim Crawley
Animated by Patch Keyes & RUFFMERCY
Produced by RUFFMERCY STUDIOS
With thanks to Jonatan Jonson, Linus & Studio Moross

Dude York - “Cannibal” Video

Seattle indie-rock trio Dude York dropped their debut album, Dehumanize, in January and now, they release the video for “Cannibal.” Filmed in a tiny apartment, the band plays in front of a mattress sitting up against plastic window shades, while an out-of-place scenery painting hangs on the wall and a piece of pizza sits on top of a bong. The untidiness of the space matches the edgy vocals and the anxious guitar in “Cannibal,” and the whole scene eventually turns into a cramped house party.

OFF! - “Hypnotized” Official Video (Feat. David Yow & Jack Grisham)

 

OFF! is a band of grizzled, aging punk veterans who now pay the rent by bashing out early-’80s-style trashcan hardcore. And their new video for the single “Hypnotized” features two fellow members of their old-punk tribe: The Jesus Lizard’s David Yow and T.S.O.L.’s Jack Grisham, both of whom play rival off-brand superheroes who get into a Hollywood punch-up. It’s just as violent and squalid as you would hope from anything involving this bunch of middle-aged miscreants. Chris Grismer directs.

Linda Perhacs - “Prisms Of Glass” Official Video (Feat. Julia Holter And Nite Jewel)

Today, after 44 years of waiting, Linda Perhacs finally releases her second album. That’s probably the longest wait for a follow-up album in all of pop music; at Stereogum HQ we can only think of Dot Wiggins’ solo album from last year (44 years after the Shaggs’ Philosophy Of The World) as another possibility. Now she has a video for her collaboration with Nite Jewel (aka Ramona Gonzalez) and Julia Holter, “Prisms Of Glass.” The Jessica Hundley-directed video is similar in style to Kyle Safieh’s one for “Freely” in the way it piles multiple visuals to match Perhacs’ masterful weaving of vocal tracks. But while Safieh’s was more concerned with nature, “Prisms Of Glass” is all about light and movement. Cutting between three dancers and then the trio of Perhacs, Holter, and Gonzalez, the video overflows with prismatic effects and layers of visuals. It’s the same sensation as holding a crystal up against a window and watching the light come through.

ASAP Rocky - “Riot Rave” (Feat Baauer) (Official Video) & “Unicorns”

One of the highlights of A$AP Rocky’s Long.Live.A$AP was the Skrillex feature “Wild For The Night,” and Rocky’s new Gessafelstein collab “In Distress” ain’t half bad either. So I was hoping “Riot Rave,” Rocky’s new video with Baauer, would be another example of prime party-time PMF EDM. Alas, it seems to be an “art video” about Rocky and A$AP Mob rioting throughout NYC’s five boroughs set to minimal bass rumble. The video is directed by Rocky, Kostas Seremetis, and Danilo Parra, and the track is from Rocky’s long-promised instrumental collection Beauty N The Beast: Slowed Down Sessions Chapter 1. Shortly after the first video surfaced, Rocky released visuals another instrumental from the project called “Unicorn,” a slowed-down, purple version of Tame Impala’s “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards.”

Pontiak - “We’ve Got It Wrong” Video

The Virginia power trio Pontiak released INNOCENCE, an absolutely thunderous slab of majestic psych-rock, earlier this year, and we posted the video for “Wildfires.” Drummer Lain Carney, the youngest of the three brothers in the band, directed the new video for “We’ve Got It Wrong.” In the video, frontman Van plays a baller-ass ’70s-style playboy, while his two bandmates loom as shadowy presences. I’m not sure if I can even explain why this thing is so badass, but it absolutely is. The band is on tour right now, and you should definitely go see them. (I’m friends with them, but I’d still say this if I weren’t.)

The Presets - “Goodbye Future” (Official Video)

A little over a month ago we heard “Goodbye Future,” the first in a series of 2014 singles by Aussie electronica duo the Presets. Now that hooky club track has a video in which figures from throughout history congregate on a very violent dance floor. The clip comes from Aussie filmmaker Prad Senanayake, who says his metaphor for world history is inspired by “a lot of dark things happening in Australia and around the world recently.”

Lykke Li - “Love Me Like I’m Not Made Of Stone” (Official Video)

Lykke Li — Swedish indie-pop royalty and inspiration to rappers as disparate as Drake and Tyler, The Creator — released a trailer for her new album I Never Learn last week. Now comes the first video from the record, “Love Me Like I’m Not Made Of Stone,” as well as a statement from Lykke:

Every song on the album is a power ballad. Like one of those old radio stations. This is a slow dance; a slow burner.
I wrote ["No Rest for the Wicked"] in Sweden when I was packing up my shit, and I’d just gotten out of a relationship and it was a horrible time. I just had the hurt, shame, sadness, guilt, longing. In the verse, I’m referring to myself pleading guilty but I’m referring to all of us.

You don’t need much time with “Love Me Like I’m Not Made Of Stone” to find out Lykke’s description of her new album is on-point. It’s a stark, intimate, brokenhearted ballad with a video to match by director Tarik Saleh. It’s a thing of beauty.

Eagulls - “Possessed” (Official Video)

Tomorrow marks the release of Eagulls’ stellar self-titled debut, and to herald the occasion the Leeds post-punk ragers have released a video for Loveless-laced album highlight “Possessed.” Plastic Zoo’s video revolves around a kid lighting some lumber on fire in a shopping cart. Not sure what’s going on there, but the song continues to rule. Have a look.

JUNGLE. - “Busy Earnin’” (Official Video)

“Busy Earnin’,” the new single from the London synth-funk group JUNGLE. As far as I can tell, none of the members of the band show up in the song’s brand-new video. Instead, the video focuses on the dancers featured on the single’s cover art. The whole video is just one big, choreographed dance routine, all taking place in a big, white room. It’s a fun, unpretentious video, and if we’re entering a new age of people dancing in music videos, I’m not mad. Watch it below.

Damon Albarn - “Lonely Press Play” (Official Video)

We’ve heard two stripped-down acoustic versions of Damon Albarn’s achingly gorgeous “Lonely Press Play, and today he’s dropped not only the studio version of the track, but its video. Instrumentally, it’s nothing like the version he did only with an acoustic guitar on BBC Radio, or the performance he delivered at Sundance with a small string section; instead, it’s a whirring, bleep-bloopy pillow fort of electronic sounds. Of course, the melody, vocal, and lyrics are more or less identical, and its from that base that the song derives its graceful, melancholy beauty. The video is compiled from scenes captured by Damon on his tablet, and were filmed in Tokyo, London, Dallas, Utah, Colchester (UK), North Korea, Iceland and Devon (UK).

Rick Ross – “Nobody” (Feat. French Montana & Diddy) Video

Last week Rick Ross released the Mastermind track “Nobody” as a single, and Tom noted that French Montana’s hook repurposes the Notorious B.I.G.’s “You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You),” sending Rozay’s already high “Biggie Smalls corpse-humpery levels” through the roof. The Biggie homage is intentional — hence the presence of Mastermind executive producer Sean Combs under his Puff Daddy guise — and now the song has a video that connects it to the shooting that caused Ross to crash his Rolls Royce in Miami a year ago, further driving home the Christopher Wallace parallels. Unlike the late, great Biggie Smalls, Ross survived to star in many more big-budget rap videos like this one.

Kings Of Leon - “Temple” (Official Video)

Kings of Leon put out their new album, Mechanical Bull, last year, but have just dropped a new video for the song “Temple.” The clip is made up of shots of the band playing, intercut with grainy home videos of cars, bars, trains, and family. 

Katy Perry - Dark Horse (Official Video) ft. Juicy J

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Owen Pallett - The Riverbed (Official Video) & “On A Path” (Lyric Video)

Owen Pallett - The Riverbed (Official Video)
"The Riverbed"
Director • Eva Michon
Executive Producer • Jonathan Craven for the Uprising Creative
Producer • Alley Curran for the Uprising Creative
Cinematographer • Drew Bienemann
Editor • Aditya Nair

Owen Pallett’s original score for Her, performed by his former bandmates Arcade Fire, is up for an Oscar this weekend, but the masterful songwriter and composer has shifted his attention to new projects. His next album, In Conflict, is coming out in May, and today he’s revealed the video for lead single “The Riverbed.” Musically, it’s a torrential swirl of strings and percussion that, on first pass, stands among Pallett’s finest compositions. Director Eva Michon’s video is nearly as striking as the music; it follows a middle aged man through events including a date, an untimely encounter, and what appears to be a Rocky-like training regimen with revenge in mind. Make sense of it below, where you’ll also find a lyric video for the more understated In Conflict offering “On A Path.”