2:54 - “Crest” (Official Video)

British sister duo and one-time 2:54 put out their sophomore record The Other I last year, and they’ve just shared a video for album track “Crest.” The black-and-white video sees them performing with a full band against a rapidly flashing strobe light, and was directed by Charlie Robins, Chris Hugall, and Daniel Castro.

California X - “Hadley, MA” (Official Video)

Today marks the release of Nights In The Dark, the second album of fuzzed-out anthems from the misleadingly named Massachusetts punk band California X. In celebration, they’ve shared a new video for third single “Hadley, MA,” a bittersweet ode to their Western Mass. home complete with a fist-pumping J Mascis-style guitar solo. The video cuts between footage of the guys jamming out in their jewel-encrusted rock’n'roll cave and scenes of a mysterious cloaked figure lurking in the woods.

Mount Eerie - “This” (Official Video)

Leave it to Phil Elverum to describe his new Mount Eerie video better than I ever could: “The song and the video are seemingly surreal and ambiguous, but actually it is an attempt at a straight-up accurate depiction of this every-moment mental experience,” he told NPR. “An orange traffic cone in a weird place, a pumpkin smashed on the rocks, a sword in the sky; all mental images piercing through layers of dream, all aiming for some kind of lucidity.” There we go. “This” is a beautiful new track from the forthcoming Mount Eerie double album, Sauna, which is due out next month, and watching the accompanying visuals is the best way to hear the song for the first time.

Split Single - “Fragmented World” (Official Video)

Back in April, indie rock veteran Jason Narducy — he of the sexiest elbows in rock — teamed up with Spoon’s Britt Daniel and Superchunk’s Jon Wurster to release Fragmented World, an infectious album of sunny power-pop tinged with lyrical sadness. The new video for the title track, directed by Joe Losurdo, finds Narducy on the run from some nefarious gentlemen in suits. Somehow, even when we’re watching a torturer performing some very impromptu oral surgery, the video manages to maintain its sense of goofy fun. (And Narducy’s glorious elbows are on full display, if you’re into that sort of thing.)

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - “Ballad Of The Mighty I” (Feat. Johnny Marr) Official Video

“Ballad Of The Mighty I” is a surprisingly dancey Johnny Marr collaboration from Noel Gallagher’s upcoming album Chasing Yesterday, one that matches a hi-hat-heavy drum track and infectiously snaky guitar parts with a soaring symphonic background. It’s an unprecedented sound for Gallagher, and its video is just as unexpected. Gallagher has been outspoken about how much he hates making music videos, and this one plays on that reputation, tracing his interactions with a pompous director who hilariously addresses him as “Liam” and seems way more into the filmmaking process than Gallagher himself. All in all it’s the most fascinating thing Gallagher’s done since the dissolution of Oasis, so press play.

Title Fight - "Rose of Sharon" (Official Video)

Title Fight have shared a video for “Rose Of Sharon,” a new track from their forthcoming album Hyperview. It starts off with some warbled, old-timey radio music and a little boy holding a toy gun while watching a black-and-white movie on TV before switching over to Title Fight’s freshly rebranded form of punk that they’ve adopted since signing to ANTI- last year. The band plays in a room that makes it look like they’re underwater, watched over by three blinking eyes.

Pond - “Zond” (Official Video)

Pond’s new album Man It Feels Like Space Again is coming soon, and today the Perth psych-rockers released an immensely goofy video from it. The title “Zond” itself suggests a slightly tweaked version of Pond, and indeed it’s one of the group’s zaniest-sounding tracks to date, with a video to match from director Johnny Mackay. A frantic new-wave funk tune spiked with guitar lacerations is paired with wildly colorful oddball visions that make grand use of basic video effects, costumes, and inflatable objects. It’s a blast, so watch.

Shabazz Palaces - “Forerunner Foray” (Official Video)

Seattle art-rappers Shabazz Palaces only ever make great videos, and their new clip for the Lese Majesty track “Forerunner Foray” is a fine entry into a growing body of work. The singer-songwriter and animator Chad VanGaalen put together the video, which uses the racial and astral themes of Shabazz Palaces’ music and turns them into a supremely bugged-out psychedelic collage. The video has no narrative connective thread, but it should keep you riveted regardless. The 2001 floating space-fetus might be the most normal thing we see during this clip. Suffice to say: This is a video where Magic Johnson rides a giant pizza slice through the galaxy

THEESatisfaction - “Recognition” (Official Video)

Seattle avant-rap duo THEESatisfaction’s video for “Recognition,” the half-chanted first single from their forthcoming EarthEE album, places the group within a historical black-bohemian continuum. The song was already a community affair, with contributions from contemporaries Shabazz Palaces and Erik Blood. But the video takes things further. In the clip, the members of the group visit Langston Hughes’ ashes in Harlem, as well as the former residences of late icons like John Coltrane, Sun Ra, and Marian Anderson. The artist Xenobia Bailey also makes an appearance. Tiona McClodden directed the video.

Childish Gambino - “Sober” Video (Dir. Hiro Murai)

As I figured out when I put together my list of last year’s 40 best music videos, Hiro Murai has arguably succeeded Nabil as the greatest director currently working in the music-video field. He made Flying Lotus’ “Never Catch Me,” my favorite video of the last year, and he was on that list more than any other director. One of his better videos from last year was the creature-feature clip for Childish Gambino’s “Telegraph Ave,” and now he’s reunited with Gambino to helm the clip for “Sober,” a non-rapped synth-funk track from Gambino’s recent Kauai EP. In the video, we see a supremely intense and zonked-out Donald Glover doing whatever he can to impress a disinterested young lady in a diner. It’s a bit like Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” video, with the creepy undercurrents brought to the forefront. Great video, and Glover deserves a lot of credit for his physically intimidating performance and his alien facial expressions.

Sia - “Elastic Heart” Video (Feat. Shia LaBeouf & Maddie Ziegler)

The day after Sia was announced as the musical guest for the 1/17 episode of SNL, she has revealed a new music video starring fellow grocery bag enthusiast Shia LaBeouf and “Chandelier” star Maddie Ziegler. “Elastic Heart” is a not-particularly-memorable track from last year’s 1000 Forms Of Fear, but Sia and co-director Daniel Askill have turned it into one of the most memorable music videos I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a dance-battle cage match between LaBeouf and Ziegler, and it’s entertaining enough (and Shia enough) to go insanely viral. The Sia/Shia connection!

Elvis Perkins - “Hogus Pogus” (Official Video)

The no-longer-in-Dearland Elvis Perkins has a new solo album called I Aubade coming out next month, and he’s just shared the video for “Hogus Pogus,” its quirk-driven solo-acoustic lead single. The clip consists almost entirely of ancient-looking black-and-white footage of a rugged French outdoorsman named Arnaud Cornillon. It also has subtitles, for some reason. Perkins co-directed the video with Ashley Connor, Zia Anger, and Cornelia Livingston.

The Afghan Whigs - “The Lottery” (Official Video)

The Afghan Whigs’ new video for “The Lottery” serves as a tribute to their monitor engineer Ryan O’Hara, and is completely made up of footage of him dancing and singing along to the song in front of the soundboard while the band performs the track live over a few different nights. “He wakes up everyday with a smile on his face and something positive to share with you. Every night during the gig he performs a parallel show behind the board and it’s phenomenal to watch,” frontman Greg Dulli wrote. “Occasionally, I’ll forget to sing because I’m watching him turn into Bez from Happy Mondays. But that’s rock and roll for you. It keeps you young.”

Mirror Kisses - “Keep A Secret” (Official Video)

Mirror Kisses released his spiraling track “Keep A Secret” back in December, a song that shows off George Clanton’s unique, capacious voice and makes his as-yet-untitled debut LP something to look forward to in the new year. Today he’s presented us with a self-made video for the track made up of a collection of fragmented scenes from the 1995 Angelina Jolie film, Hackers. The scenes are inter-spliced with hand-drawn animations and heavily edited footage of Clanton himself, who could easily be mistaken for a character in the film.

Future - “Mad Luv” (Official Video)

Future has shared a video for “Mad Luv,” a track taken from his Monster mixtape that was released last fall. The video was directed by Rick Nyce and shot around Future’s hometown of Atlanta: “I wanted to go back to my roots before I started this journey of creating album music. So I came back to Atlanta, Lil Mexico—Kirkwood—to be specific, to shoot ’Mad Luv,” Future explained to FADER. Rae Sremmurd and Mike WiLL Made It have cameo appearances in the video.

Kate Pierson - “Bring Your Arms” Lyric Video

Kate Pierson’s first solo single, “Mister Sister,” voiced her support for the trans community (although some in that community deemed it problematic). “Bring Your Arms,” the second single from Pierson’s Guitars And Microphones, takes on a different issue: animal rights. Executive producer Sia and Chris Braide wrote the song after Sia and Pierson witnessed the rescue of a sea turtle, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. I wonder if every song on this album is topical? Watch the song’s severely corny lyric video below.

LVL UP - “DBTS” (Official Video)

LVL UP made one of the best albums of the year, and one of the many instant-classics populating the tracklist is “DBTS,” an anthem for Brooklyn DIY venue David Blaine’s The Steakhouse, where two of their members live. So it makes sense that the video is a living tribute to the space, shot inside and on the roof by Adam and Rob Kolodny, who run the production company House Of Nod. The video features footage of the band playing the song intercut with cameos from the Double Double Whammy extended fam, and ends with all of the band members getting hit in the face with food. It’s a fun time!

Atmosphere - “January On Lake Street” (Official Video)

Minneapolis rap duo Atmosphere have put out a ton of videos for their last album, Southsiders, and they’ve just released another one for “January On Lake Street,” which came out (appropriately) on the first day of the month. The video is made up of a series of shots of people staring out into space that don’t make much sense until the reveal at the end of the video that all of the shots were taken right before an asteroid crashed into Earth. With that context, the video gets a whole lot more interesting.