PINS - “Everyone Says” (Official Video)

We just named PINS’ sophomore album Wild Nights our album of the week, and they’ve responded by sharing a video for “Everyone Says,” a mellowed out track from their new record. It was shot by guitarist Lois Macdonald in shaky black-and-white with a Super 8 and, as lead singer Faith Vern explained to The New York Times, the video is about “someone really upset and contemplating whether they wanted to live. By the end of it we wanted it to look like they were reborn and survived.” It features a lot of smoking and staring off into the distances, bubblebaths and a big glass of wine.

Dances - “Holy Fool” (Official Video)

Everything seems to be going wrong in Brooklyn transplants Dances’ new video for their track “Holy Fool,” a song that bears the definite influence of Britpop in general and Blur in specific, particularly singer Trevor Vaz’s rough, apathetic voice. Minuscule accidents create an uncontrollable chaos: Milk is poured over a bell jar containing a dead duckling, coffee is dumped on cars and people, cigarettes are flicked away at the start of a make-out session, a cereal-filled piñata is slashed with a samurai sword. All the while everyone remains passive, as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening. The video is shot entirely in slow-motion, making for absolutely stunning visuals. It’s strangely satisfying, watching destruction ensue. Alec Macdonald and Bernardo Garcia direct.

Davido x Meek Mill - “Fans Mi” (Official Video)

Fans Mi is a Davido Afrobeats-HipHop fusion single feat U.S Rapper and Maybach Music Group artist Meek Mill. Fans Mi was produced by Shizzi.

Muse - "Mercy" (Official Video)

Watch the music video for "Mercy" now!

Directed by Sing J Lee

Björk - “Black Lake” (Official Video)

Björk’s “Black Lake” video has been on view at New York’s MoMA for awhile now, but unless you made it to the controversial retrospective of the Icelandic artist’s work, then chances are that this will be the first time you’ve seen the piece in full. Björk advertised the Andrew Thomas Huang-directed video in a trailer that surfaced way back in February around the time that Vulnicura dropped, promising that it would be an impressive, epic visualization of one of the most gut-wrenching songs on the record. Björk’s work is as much an auditory experience as it is a visual spectacle, which is why it’s so exciting every time she drops a new video. Usually she’s costumed and made to look mystical — her limbs elongated in the accompanying video for “Lionsong,” her chest sprouting roots in the one for “Family” — but in this new piece, Björk looks kind of ordinary. Her outfits are elaborate, but her face is totally unmasked, adding an extra layer of exposure to the already raw song. Björk told Dazed the following about the piece:

    dear folks

    here comes the black lake video

    a video me and andrew thomas huang did

    i would like to thank him and james merry so strongly for going through with me the longest video process yet, especially to andrew for his talented elegant patience and for taking my first visual impulses and weaving into them his own magnificent vision :

    i’m so honoured !!

    it was a complex yet adventurous process to synchronise with so many departments

    i would like to thank klaus biesenbach for commissioning it

    and the haxan cloak, the speaker collaborators, the architect david benjamin and marco perry, who all helped me make the most ideal sound room possible for that song

    and then thank derek and emma birkett and tamsin, and iris and erna

    and arca for producing the music with me

    can i also thank new york for a feisty five months, eight lush gigs ?

    i guess its time for ‘stonemilker’ and ‘black lake’ to get out there into the world after a three month stint in a museum (after all the effort, ‘stonemilker’ was like black lake’s spontaneous baby sibling, ha ha ha)… we tried to make it in a way it was both at home there and also as a no-nonsense music video (still my fave format) and i hope you don’t mind the wait

    most curious though about them next things

    perhaps we don’t even have the best tools yet

    and technology might be where all the senses can merge even better?

    !!! here’s to some more VR vulnicura releases soon !!!

    enthusiasm

    björk

Public Access T.V. - “All We Want” (Official Video)

Public Access T.V.’s new video for “All We Want” captures the dewy-eyed nostalgia that the song evokes. It’s shot with a slippery camera that refuses to really focus on anything, but it still paints an evocative portrait of the band — that seems to have been the goal. In the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to do a music video like ‘Complete Control’ by The Clash or something where it’s just a video compiled of all this great unreleased footage sliced together to be a cohesive thing,” frontman John Eatherly explained in a press release. “Since starting the band a little over a year ago we have been filming random things just for fun nearly the entire time. I edited it in the back of the van during our recent tour. This video shows a glimpse into the world of Public Access T.V.”

Heems - “Damn Girl” (Official Video)

Former Das Racist rapper Heems released his masterfully-titled solo album Eat Pray Thug back in March, which we named Album Of The Week for its ability to tangle the deeply personal with greater societal issues. In-line with this interpretation, the video for “Sometimes” was a spot-on, winking critique of aspirational whiteness that featured Hannibal Buress and Eric Andre. But “Damn Girl” doesn’t necessarily open itself up to a broader appraisal. This is an ambitious song about heartbreak wrought by a relationship that just won’t quit regardless of how many times Heems has tried to end it, and the accompanying video features him moving in spit-fire formations completely alone in a gallery show he hosted in his home city of New York. He raps, “You’re a trigger, you’re a killer and I ain’t finna bone/ You’re a trigger, you’re a killer and you take me out my zone.”

Bully - “Trying” (Official Video)

Bully invade an empty amusement park in the video for “Trying,” the great single from the Nashville band’s upcoming debut, Feels Like. Alicia Bognanno and co. eventually get caught by some bumbling security guards by the end, but in the meantime they manage to play skeeball and set up their band in front of a roller coaster. The use of a janky Gravitron is especially inspired, as the band spinning round and round changing their force of gravity is just as disorienting as that awesome chorus.

Leon Bridges - “Smooth Sailin'” (Official Video)

Sometimes it’s just a joy to see great musicians play, and Leon Bridges seems like he surrounds himself with the best. There’s enough of them in his video for new single “Smooth Sailin’” that it’s a pleasure to watch. And, of course, Bridges himself is a preternaturally talented young performer and takes his rightful place at the center of it all, dressed in a dapper suit while he dances along to the beat. Bridges’ brand of traditional soul music could have beeen made in a past era, but crisp and charming videos like this one make me glad that his time is now.

Ghost - “Cirice” (Official Video)

Sweden’s Ghost announced their forthcoming album, Meliora, via a cryptic late-night VH1 Classic commercial back in May, and two days later they dropped the record’s first single. “Cirice” is a clamorous, performative track, and the new video is an adept accompaniment. A misfit little girl attends a talent show that quickly evolves into an apocalyptic reckoning of sorts when Ghost bewitches her with their performance. Roboshobo, the man most recently responsible for Mastodon’s excellent “High Road” video and the Killers’ “Shot At Night,” as well as dozens of of other impressive works, directs.

Hudson Mohawke - “Warriors” (Feat. Ruckazoid & Devaeux) Video

UK producer Hudson Mohawke is this close to releasing Lantern, his first solo LP in six years (so basically forever). We’ve already heard a bunch of tracks from the star-studded new album, and tonight, HudMo is giving us one more taste. “Warriors” is a huge, celebratory fuck-the-haters anthem featuring Ruckazoid and Devaeux, and the video (directed by Stef & Ivo) is a cool twist on the lyric video format, in which phrases from the song are projected and painted onto the bodies of dancers. Watch it below.

Young Thug - “Halftime” (Official Video)

Young Thug snagged Album Of The Week honors a couple of months ago on the strength of his deeply engaging album (or mixtape, or whatever) Barter 6. Now, he’s just shared a new video for highlight “Halftime.” Thug co-directs alongside frequent collaborator Be El Be, and there’s not really a whole lot to the clip, but Thug’s weirdo charisma keeps it eminently watchable. Also, this is the song where he boasts “Every time I dress myself, it go motherfuckin’ viral,” and his sartorial choices here do not disappoint.

No Joy - “Everything New” (Official Video)

Tomorrow, Montreal shoegazers No Joy will drop their new album More Faithful upon the world. First single “Everything New” is a glimmering rush of guitars, and now the multidisciplinary artist Jason Harvey has directed a deeply strange video for it. The clip tells the story of a pile of magical garbage that comes to life after a No Joy show. There’s also a whole lot of stuff about how we look at our phones too much.

Empress Of - “Water Water” (Official Video)

Lorely Rodriguez is the force behind Empress Of, a Brooklyn electro-pop act that’s been steadily gaining force for several years now. Her debut EP Systems came out back in 2013, and she’s currently gearing up to finally put out an album. “Water Water” is one of her newer tracks, and she penned the song while in Valle de Bravo, Mexico on a writing retreat. It was originally titled “Agua, Agua” and has been translated to English — that translation now has a video that fittingly premiered today at Noisey Mexico. Rodriguez co-directed the video with Zaiba Jabbar, and stars in it as a fluid version of herself, multiplying and blurring via cool editing effects. In the song she addresses everything from getting too high to the fact that water is a privilege akin to going to college, a powerful commentary on a simple thing that Americans often take for granted. Watch it below, where you can also hear the Spanish version of the song.

KAEB - "When We Fall" (Official Music Video)

Next month, Geoff Barrow’s side project Beak> will release a new split EP — one side will feature new Beak> songs, while the other will have tracks from Kaeb, the band’s “alter-ego.” They’ve just shared “When We Fall,” the quiet and meditative first track from the release, and it’s accompanied by a video co-directed by Ex Machina/28 Days Later director Alex Garland and Ex Machina director of photography Rob Hardy. (Barrow did the score for that film along with Ben Salisbury.) It also stars Sonoya Mizuno, who also starred in Ex Machina. A lot of connections to that film!

Cayucas - “Moony Eyed Walrus” (Official Video)

Cayucas blend the pastoral and the beach with a deft hand, so it seems entirely appropriate that the video for their new track “Moony Eyed Walrus” would see the three band members lugging a surfboard through the woods. Some quick cuts highlight their pointedly dramatic looks at the camera, while everything slows down as their staring up at an immense waterfall.

Of Monsters and Men - "Crystals" (Official Video)

Taken from the forthcoming new album Beneath The Skin

Directed by Arni and Kinski

Compositions © 2015 Of Monsters and Men / Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI)
Recordings © 2015 SKRIMSL ehf, under exclusive license to Republic Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

FFS - “Piss Off” (Official Video)

FFS — the new supergroup made up of members of Franz Ferdinand and Sparks — have shared a video for “Piss Off,” a song from their self-titled debut that comes out tomorrow. It features the band members as animated creepy little ninja men with their real-life heads placed on top of small bodies. They dance on top of buildings, shoot lasers out of their hands, make a cheerleading-style triangle formation. It’s weird!