Woman’s Hour - “Devotion” (Official Video)

Woman’s Hour have shared a video for “Devotion,” a track off of their debut LP Conversations. The video uses a few different pairs of identical twins to examine at the relationship that these pairings have. It shows them comforting each other, supporting each other, and, at times, looking as though their staring at a mirror image of themselves. “We used minimal props and staging to make the focus on the subjects, almost as still life portraits. As well as looking identical, they have a constant lifetime loyalty to each other that’s unlike any other relationship,” vocalist Fiona Burgess told Dazed. “Their movements are subtle so that the viewer’s focus is on the tinniest movements. That seemed to compliment the song. It’s often the smallest gestures that speak volumes.”

Ibeyi - “Ghosts” (Official Video)

Ibeyi is the duo of two twin sisters, the French-Cuban daughters of Buena Vista Social Club percussionist Anga Díaz. Their video for “River,” which we posted last year, was the sort of simple, haunting piece of work that sticks with you. The band’s self-titled debut arrives next month, and with their new video for the meditative-but-joyous “Ghosts,” they once again link up with “River” director Ed Morris. Morris uses inky black-and-white and double-exposure to make it hard to tell where one sister ends and the other begins, as if they were both each other’s ghosts.

Parkay Quarts - “Pretty Machines” (Official Video)

A few months ago, sardonic New York postpunkers Parquet Courts capped off a really, really great 2014 by releasing the quickie album Content Nausea under the name Parkay Quarts. The album, a bit punchier and more casual than the great Sunbathing Animal, is still full of the sort of sidelong hooks and endlessly quotable lyrics that make this band so great. Their new video for the album track “Pretty Machines” shows band member Austin Brown, who co-directed the video along with Johann Rashid, going about the mundane details of his day while wearing a terrible fake mustache. The video sometimes uses double exposure to make him look like a ghost. More than anything, it’s a good excuse to take another listen to a very good song that might’ve flown under your radar.

Mammut - "Resiste" (Official Video)

RESISTE (Dirigido por: Martín Boulocq)

The Prodigy - "Nasty" (Official Video)

VIDEO CREDITS

Director: Oliver Jones
Producer : Oliver Jones & Brandon Kahn
Production Company : Better Feeling Films

Bass Drum of Death - "Better Days" (Official Video)

Bass Drum Of Death are launching a tour of the Western US next week in support of last year’s Rip This. Much of that album is the raucous garage rock that has become the band’s trademark, but “Better Days” trims down Bass Drum’s approach to passionate vocal howls, fervently strummed acoustic guitars, gnarly electric lead parts, and (belying the band name) barely any drums at all. It’s kind of the Bass Drum version of a campfire singalong, the closest this band comes to gentle. That said, director Rachel Remz manages to work quite a few punches to the face into the boxing-themed video.

Celestial Shore - “Weekenders” (Official Video)

Celestial Shore’s video for Enter Ghost track “Weekenders” is inspired by Stanley Kubrick and office drudgery. Against a backdrop of Celestial Shore’s floaty, ephemeral psych-pop, Ava Nicolai stars as a bedridden patient who is transported to a surreal church sanctuary inhabited by mimes who subject her to such vices as drink, smoke, and glitter. I’ll let band member Sam Owens and directors Patrick Gilfether and Max Kopelowicz take it from here. First here’s Owens’ take on the clip:

I met Max and Patrick at a bar in Oberlin. They were talking about Lynch and Kubrick. We talked about the moon landing, and the NASA lens that Kubrick used to film the candlelight scenes in Barry Lyndon. Patrick had recently acquired a film camera, so I asked them to make a video for one of our songs. I wrote weekenders shortly after seeing Barry Lyndon, a fool-as-hero tragedy filled with empty accomplishments. At the time, my day job was grinding me into a Midtown curmudgeon. It all sort of came together in that song.

Now for the directors’ statement:

Our process was pretty kaleidoscopic, we kept proposing images to one another that were conjured while we listened, and slowly the video began to take form and developed a narrative as we went through the variations. We both saw these two lovers, one on their deathbed and the other promising them everything. The empty promise before one’s own demise has this tragic and uplifting duality to it where it shows that the person cares and wants to help so badly even though they are ultimately rendered useless by the inevitableness of the situation.

Weyes Blood - “Bad Magic” (Official Video)

Weyes Blood’s video for The Innocents track “Bad Magic” was shot almost entirely with a drone, and it’s absolutely stunning. See, drones aren’t all bad! (#NotAllDrones?) Hooking a camera up to one of them allowed director Joey Frank to capture some breath-taking, epic shots that almost look like someone filmed it from inside of a cloud. It’s a fitting tribute to the music, which is just as sweeping and beautiful as the video. Singer Natalie Mering traveled to the Far Rockaways and the Hamptons to capture the footage, and you can see her skipping rocks into the ocean and walking along the beach. “The song is so slow, and the drone footage is very hypnotic and slow. The rhythm of the ocean looks like how the song sounds,” Mering told FADER.

Watch The Full Video Of Ben Gibbard Covering Alvvays’ “Archie, Marry Me,” His Favorite Song Of The Year

During a benefit show last year, Ben Gibbard covered Alvvays’ breakout track “Archie, Marry Me,” but we only saw a very short clip of the performance. Turns out that the whole concert was being recorded in high-quality as a joint venture between KEXP, Starbucks, and STG, and they’ve recently shared the whole thing. Before he starts playing, Gibbard calls it his “favorite song of the year.”

FKA Twigs - “Pendulum” (Official Video)

FKA twigs is maybe the most reliably great music-video artist currently working; her clips for the LP1 tracks “Two Weeks” and “Video Girl” were among last year’s best. But she’s never directed one of her own music videos below, though she did helm her Google Glass commercial. Twigs’ new clip for her woozy, beautiful “Pendulum” is the first she’s ever made for herself, and she knows what the fuck she’s doing. As with so many of her videos, this one draws heavily on her training as a dancer. It shows her tied up and suspended from ceilings in ways that look deeply uncomfortable, projecting sexual vulnerability and power in equal measures. She also communes with a digital blob and wears a contraption that turns her long braids into, like, antlers. It’s a tough video to describe, but as with everything she does, it’s an absolute must-watch.

Moon Duo - “Animal” Feat. Richie Jackson (Official Video)

Space-rockers Moon Duo are back in March with a new album called Shadows Of The Sun, and their new video for first single “Animal” is a very strange and ridiculously entertaining piece of work. The clip stars a waxy-mustached and wild-eyed hesher — the pro skateboarder Richie Jackson, who also directs — strutting around, fashioning makeshift skateboards out of pieces of garbage, and then executing some impressive tricks on those skateboards. Watching it, I really want to attempt some of these absurd maneuvers on my own, though this is most certainly a terrible idea.

Watch Future Islands Play “Seasons (Waiting On You)” On Austin City Limits

Future Islands "Seasons (Waiting on You)"
Future Islands perform on Austin City Limits.

Flying Lotus - “Coronus, The Terminator” (Official Video)

Flying Lotus has had an incredible run of videos for You’re Dead tracks “Never Catch Me” and “Ready Err Not,” and that streak continues with his visuals for “Coronus, The Terminator.” Continuing his fixation on death that was so prevalent in those two videos and on his album, we open with a man on his deathbed surrounded by his family, and follow him into the afterlife, which is filled with ghostly men — one of whom is FlyLo himself — that hang out in parlor rooms and dance under highway overpasses. “For me, Coronus is one of the most important moments on You’re Dead! and holds ideas I’m planning to explore in my future work,” FlyLo said. “I’m happy that the visual encapsulates the meaning of the record and this ambition.”

Shura - “Indecision” (Official Video)

Shura’s been coasting on the strength of “Indecision” for a few months now, and with good reason: The spry, 80s-influenced track is probably the strongest thing she’s released so far, and it serves as a great example of why we named her an Artist To Watch. She’s just shared a video for the track, an understated and tasteful look at going out for the night. “This was the first treatment that really gently alluded to (the song’s themes) but was in and of itself a moving story about a journey and change,” Shura told Dazed. “Obviously you can ask all sorts of questions about the video – is he gay? Does he just like dressing up? – but it’s open to interpretation. It’s done in a really subtle way I think.” Shura’s involvement in the video is kept to a cameo appearance, and everyone that appears in the party scene are her real-life friends and also were in the video for “Touch.”

A-Trak - “Push” (Feat. Andrew Wyatt) Video (NSFW)

A-Trak’s new video for “Push,” a house track with a vocal from Miike Snow singer Andrew Wyatt, is a beautifully absurd piece of work. It depicts a party in which various different rich and stylish people, in varying states of undress, enjoy each other’s company at the sort of fancy dinner party that features guns and live tigers. It looks like a pretty good time! Ramon Ayala directed the video, and it’s got a ton of nudity. That nudity may be blurcled out, but I would not consider this thing to be especially save for work. Below read some words of explanation from A-Trak.

A-Trak writes:

My approach to dance music has always been a bit left, so the last thing I wanted was one of those sparkler bottle “Lets make this night live forever!” videos. Instead, I wanted to make something with the opulence of a rap video, but shot like a renaissance painting. I got my boy TM88 (from 808 Mafia) to play the lead role, we shot it in a castle in France. It’s kind of like Eyes Wide Shut meets Burning Man. I also really wanted a tiger and a squid, I was very specific about that.

(via FADER)

Nedelle Torrisi - “Don’t Play Dumb” (Official Video)

In the grand Kevin Bacon game that is indie-rock, Cryptacize co-founder Nedelle Torrisi is the connective thread between Sufjan Stevens and Ariel Pink. (She appears on Sufjan’s new Carrie & Lowell and used to live with Haunted Graffiti member Kenny Gilmore.) “Don’t Play Dumb” — from Torrisi’s self-titled 2013 LP, soon to be reissued on vinyl under the title Advice From Paradise — illustrates that connection, landing somewhere between the digital distress of The Age Of Adz and the soft-rock bloodletting of Pink’s “Picture Me Gone.” In retrospect, the track’s processed, MIDI-esque take on synthpop feels like a precursor for the whole PC Music thing. (Btw, one of those background vocalists is Julia Holter.) For the video, Torrisi posed as a Target employee — and she director Travis Peterson were kicked out of Target twice while filming — who also watches Family Guy on her laptop and dances at the club all by her lonesome.

Jeremih - “Don’t Tell ‘Em (Remix)” (Feat. Ty Dolla $ign & French Montana) Video

It is rare you see an R&B crooner wear more chains than a rapper in a video, but Jeremih one-ups both Ty Dolla $ign and French Montana in the video for the remix of Jeremih’s summer hit “Don’t Tell ’Em.” The video is a peek into the lavish life, set in a decadent mansion and filled with images of a lingerie-clad woman, top-shelf alcohol, scattered rose petals, and of course chains galore. Ty Dolla $ign begins the tour of the mansion in a small, extravagantly decorated room, rapping a verse in the same melody as the original hit. Jeremih sings his verse to the aforementioned woman in the bathtub and bedroom, and French Montana wraps up, spitting his verse clad in a classic red-and-black Biggie lumberjack flannel and Cuban-link chain, sitting between two women swaying to the beat.

Fear Of Men - “America” (Official Video)

Fear Of Men put out a great but kind of slept-on release with Loom last year and, if you never got around to checking them out for whatever reason, now is as good a time as any. In fact, their shambling and spry pop may be a better seasonal fit in winter than it was when it was released in the spring. “America” is a simple video made up of footage from the band’s U.S. tour supporting the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, but it fits particularly well here given the song’s title and sentiment. The video goes all over, including stops in our nation’s capital and in front of the Twin Peaks sign (damn good coffee!), and is a charming look inside the Brighton band’s daily tour life.