Dizzee Rascal – “I Don’t Need A Reason” (Official Video)

Um. OK. So. This video fucking rules. So much going on here: Britain’s black population navigating a society that has a long and grand history of colonialism and pampered nobility, brain-melting video-looping effects, cartoon eyeball contortions, Dizzee’s own ferocious charisma. I could go on. It just rules. Watch it. Emile Sornin directed it, and the song comes from Dizzee’s forthcoming album The Fifth. But you don’t really need to know all that. You just need to know that you should watch it because it fucking rules.

Gesaffelstein – “Pursuit” (NSFW) (Dir. Fleur & Manu)

Gesaffelstein – “Pursuit” (NSFW) (Dir. Fleur & Manu)

Staggering, fascinating, harrowing. Cold Mailman’s “My Recurring Dream” video if it took place in a militaristic dystopian future-world. Please, someone, tell me where I can find one of those gold metallic gloves.

Robin Thicke – “Give It 2 U (Remix)” (Feat. 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)

This doesn’t quite achieve the majestic smut-levels of “Blurred Lines,” but it’s not for lack of trying. Belongs on the list if only for the audacious nudge-levels of the Leisure Suit Larry referee uniform, and for the confetti cannons that fire off whenever Kendrick yells “doo!”. Dir. Diane Martel

Dinowalrus – “Grounded”

Directed by Emmy Pickett.

www.DINOWALRUS.com

Dinowalrus is Pete Feigenbaum, Liam Andrew and Max Tucker

Camerawork by Sam Finzi, Jennifer MacDonald, Megan Corley, Kate Pedatella

Delorean – “Destitute Time” Video

“Destitute Time” is the airy, fluttering new single from the breezy Barcelona dance-rock band Delorean, with Glasser on the backing vocals. The song’s new CANADA-directed video flips back and forth between band-performance footage and cartoonish images of a couple going through what looks like a very complicated relationship.

Jay Z – “Holy Grail” (Feat. Justin Timberlake) Official Visual

Jay Z has delivered a music video for his Justin Timberlake collaboration, the Nirvana-referencing “Holy Grail.” It’s the first song from Magna Carta Holy Grail to get a standard visual treatment, unlike “Picasso Baby,” which was filmed during a six-hour performance at an NYC art gallery this summer and clocked in at 10 minutes long.

Gold Panda – “Community” (Official video)

The video for “Community,” the tingly new single from the British producer Gold Panda, could’ve gone a few different ways, and it went at least a couple of them. The British menswear line Lux & Noah produced the video, but it doesn’t appear to be especially fashion-damaged. Instead, half of the video is crisp, pretty black-and-white imagery of London street life, including great close-up video portraits of passersby, and half of it is color footage of a Gold Panda show. They bleed together. It’s weirdly comforting.

Zola Jesus – “Fall Back” (Official Music Video)

On her new album Versions, Zola Jesus worked with the industrial-music provocateur J.G. Thirlwell and the modern-classical string section Mivos Quartet to rework her own older songs. The album’s sole new song is the surging, devastating “Fall Back,” and now that’s the first song from the album to get a video. Allie Avital directed the stark, gorgeous clip, a series of austere but increasingly intense black-and-white images of Nika Roza Danilova, who appears in desolate stone structures and abandoned woods, with water and fire flowing all around her. It’s a truly beautiful piece of work, and you can watch.

Baroness – “March To The Sea” (Official Live Video)

As great as a showy music video can be, sometimes it’s far more satisfying to see live footage. You’ll realize that that goes double — fuck it, triple — in the case of this new live video by the recently recovered Baroness. It opens with the massive crowd chanting “Welcome Back” as frontman John Baizley looks out happily over the crowd before they start tearing through “March To The Sea.” It’s a little over a year after Baroness had their severe bus accident,  but they’ve gradually begun playing shows again. It’s devastating when tragedy affect artists we love and I always think back about Brainiac falling apart right before their big break when their lead singer was killed in a car accident. We’re really lucky to have Baroness back. This video reinforces that.

Still Corners – “Fireflies”

Earlier this year, the London synthpop duo Still Corners gave us their utterly gorgeous and winning young-love-in-the-roller-rink video for “Berlin Lovers,” one of the songs from their new album Strange Pleasures. And now they’ve made another video for a song from Strange Pleasures, returning to the landscape (Oregon) and the director (Christian Sorensen Hansen) who helped make that “Berlin Lovers” video so special. This time around, it’s “Fireflies,” which isn’t an Owl City cover, don’t worry. In the video, the two members of the group, playing young lovers themselves, amble through what looks like a series of mid-’80s TV commercials, with desert dunes and glimmering swimming pools and sun-dazed motorcycle rides captured as glamorously as possible.

Belle And Sebastian – “Your Cover’s Blown (Miaoux Miaoux Mix)”

Belle And Sebastian have a new release The Third Eye Center, a collection of B-sides, rarities and remixes — and now they have a new music video to go with it. Hannah Murray (who plays Gilly on Game Of Thrones, and is also on Skins) essentially plays the Catherine Deneuve role in a twee version of Roman Polanski’s Repulsion. Put another way, things are about to get very strange for Murray’s character. Her wallpaper is getting all flowery, when she tries to order a shot of vodka it turns into a adorable tea cup, and she’s constantly haunted by the image of some handsome Scottish gent. It all wraps up in a nice Shining-esque ending that’s about as cute as it is unsettling.

Danny Brown – “ODB” (Official Video)

The time has finally come. The yammering and excitable Detroit rapper Danny Brown, a dirty old man with a pill in his mouth and his dick in his hand, is just one month away from releasing his new album Old, the feverishly-awaited follow-up to his triumphant 2011 full-length XXX. The album is set to include contributions from a fascinating array of guests: A$AP Rocky, Freddie Gibbs, Schoolboy Q, Purity Ring, Charli XCX, and producers like Rustie, A-Trak, SKYWLKR, and Paul White. The last of those, a British beatmaker who previously worked with Danny on “Street Lights,” is responsible for the woozy, scattered beat for first single “ODB,” on which Brown absolutley spazzes. In that song’s brand-new video, director Ruffmercy throws in all sorts of crazy filters to further distort Brown’s already-fucked-up face.

Saint Rich – “Officer”

The music of Saint Rich can sometimes bring to mind the sunny, laid-back drift of Real Estate; in fact, both bands call New Jersey home, with only a single county separating them. However, while the music may display a summery vibe, Christian Peslak is anything but easygoing on “Officer,” especially in the opening line when he bluntly asks the titular police officers, “Why do you look so mad? You always look so fuckin’ angry/ but you should feel happy, and you should feel good to be king of the neighborhood.” Bitter, frustrated, and maybe just a little mocking, all those feelings are amplified in their new music video which features plenty of stoic, pissed off looking cops often with their faces blurred out.

The National – “Graceless” (Official Video)

Every once in a while, the members of the National like to remind us that they do not just sit around morosely brooding all day, and it’s always fun when that happens. Case in point: The video for “Graceless,” an elegant wallow of a song from their new album Trouble Will Find Me. The video looks like it’ll be a classy affair, shot in glossy black-and-white and opening as the band members show up in dark suits at a palatial suburban house. (It actually belongs to the parents of frontman Matt Berninger.) But then they all start getting shitfaced, jumping into the pool fully clothed, careening down a Slip-N-Slide, and engaging in a few other forms of awesome collegiate-alcoholic hijinks.

TV On The Radio – “Million Miles” Video

We just heard TV On The Radio’s truly excellent new song, “Million Miles,” and just like that, a video emerges, too. Directed by Natalia Leite (who, as far as I can tell, is also the video’s central figure: Blanche; the woman in the white dress above), the clip works as both an ecological warning as well as a surreal-ish narrative about man communing with nature. Or something.

As TVOTR’s Kyp Malone told NPR:

“It’s fun to take the idea of a song outside of the world of sound, give it fuller expression, expand its dimensions. I’ve wanted to collaborate with Natalia since I first saw her work and I thought this would be a good opportunity. We got a lot of help from a lot of creative people. Very excited to get to tell a story in this form.”

Meyhem Lauren – “Drug Lords” (Feat. Action Bronson & AG Da Coroner) Video

During last year’s SXSW, the Queens rapper Meyhem Lauren rounded up an absolutely murderous collective of internet-underground rap overlords and made an entire mixtape, the very good Respect The Fly Shit. The track “Drug Lords” has a Harry Fraud beat and guest verses from Lauren buddies Action Bronson and AG Da Coroner, and now it’s got a ridiculous new video. With the marionette likenesses of the song’s three rappers, the video shows us an over-the-top drug-den shootout, with bodies and white powder flying everywhere. As absurdist marionette action movies go, it’s not quite Team America: World Police, but it’s a lot of fun regardless. William Child and Declan Creffield direct.

!!! – “Californiyeah”

The Brooklyn-based twitchy-funk ensemble !!! shot the for “Californiyeah,” a song from their newish album THR!!!ER, guerrilla-style in Japan. Band soundman Jamie Harley shot the members of the band onstage, on the street, and in a glass elevator, with them lip-syncing to the song the whole time. (He also captured the exact moment where security kicked them out of said elevator.) The resulting video is low-tech fun, and it’s nice to see how much the people in this band still enjoy being in this band.

Daft Punk – “Lose Yourself To Dance” (Official)

As Stephen Colbert promised earlier this month, Daft Punk made a rare public appearance at tonight’s MTV Video Music Awards. The robots posed for photos on the red carpet outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, and took the stage with Pharrell and Nile Rodgers to present the award for Best Female Video to Taylor Swift. Also, a minute of the rumored “Lose Yourself To Dance” video premiered during a commercial break. A full-length video for “Get Lucky” never materialized, so it’s unclear if this is a preview or this clip is all we’ll get. Watch it, and the video of Taylor getting her award, below.