Little Green Cars - “Easier Day” (Official Video)

Filmed by band member Adam O’Regan with the help of Hugh O’Connor, the visuals to Little Green Cars’ “Easier Day” were inspired by the opening lyric “I’ve been away for a long time.” With this, O’Regan sought to utilize the varying landscape of Tokyo in order to create a “believable sense of life” while never fully disclosing a concrete storyline. The song has a dramatic, heartfelt, and worldly disposition that foreshadows the new sense of maturity cultivated by the band in their upcoming sophomore album Ephemera. Losing loved ones, ending relationships, and over two years’ worth of touring will do that for you.

Abi Reimold - “Mask” (Official Video)

“Mask” is a song about trying to transform yourself into someone else to hide your true feelings, and the video for the track sees Abi Reimold donning a chicken suit to unleash her inhibitions in an empty supermarket before using a shopping cart to escape to the outside world. It was directed by Jay Miller.

Colin Stetson - “SORROW – I (Extract)” Video

Colin Stetson, the saxophone monster and Bon Iver/Arcade Fire collaborator, is getting ready to release SORROW, his first solo album since 2013. The album is a reimagining of Henryk Górecki’s Third Symphony, from 1977, and it’s the first Stetson solo album that’ll feature outside musicians, rather than just Stetson doing incredible things to his instrument. The first extended piece we’ve heard from it is a five-minute excerpt with slow-building drones and opera singing, and it sounds pretty incredible. It comes with a video from director Dan Huiting, which shows slow aerial pans across wintry landscapes and seascapes.

Nef The Pharoah - “Mobbin” (Official Video)

Earlier this year, the young Bay Area rapper Nef The Pharaoh teamed up with the producer Cardo to make a fun, energetic mixtape called Neffy Got Wings. And last year, he released a self-titled EP that might be even better. Nef’s track “Mobbin” comes from that EP, and it’s a twitchy banger with a sound rooted in Bay rap history. Miss Info points out that Nef has made a video for the song, and it’s just as steeped in Bay culture. Directors BJ Cooper and PR Film shoot Nef dancing on a short school bus and posing with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.

Suuns - “Paralyzer” (Official Video)

Montreal-based Suuns explore the power of opposing forces on Hold/Still, which can be heard in their new song “Paralyzer.” The track evaluates the toxicity of desire as lead singer Ben Shemie sings, “I just want to touch you and hold you in my hands.” In the video directed by Charles-André Coderre, we are haunted by the emptiness of what looks like a futuristic toxic waste plant, alluding to the song’s conceptual lyrical content. As “Paralyzer” builds in intensity through intricate, experimental synth sounds, dizzying animations and a lustful scene take us on a trip that seductively explores the song’s dark, yet passionate theme.

Tacocat - “I Hate The Weekend” (Official Video)

Tacocat have released the video for “I Hate The Weekend,” the lead single from their upcoming album Lost Time. The song is an upbeat punk tune to remind those that let loose on the weekend that their partying can be somewhat of a nuisance for those who do not have the time off. The video, directed by Jessica Aceti, captures this childish ignorance. We’re invited to a wild, confetti-clad Tacocat house party that turns into a saccharin-rich candy craze. With pinatas on their heads, the band performs their working class anthem as party-goers erupt in an embrace of youthful exuberance, fighting to get their hands on anything sweet. As the video comes to an end, though, everyone crashes down from their sugar high — that is, at least until Friday comes again.

Mount Moriah - “Precita” (Official Video)

Mount Moriah released their most recent album, How To Dance, last month by way of the storied label Merge Records, and today they’re debuting a video for one of its songs. “Precita” is an Americana-indebted track, and in the accompanying clip we witness a couple dressed head-to-toe in a ’70s aesthetic escape from what appears to be an attempted robbery. Fidel Ruiz-Healy directs.

The Kills - “Doing It To Death” (Official Video)

The Kills, the grimy, larger-than-life trans-Atlantic blues-punk duo, haven’t released a new album since Blood Pressures in 2011. Singer Alison Mosshart has stayed busy with the Dead Weather and guest appearances, while guitarist Jamie Hince has had to relearn to play guitar after going through five hand surgeries. But now they’re coming back with a brand-new album, their fifth. Ash & Ice is coming in June, and they’ve just unveiled the video for “Doing It To Death,” its first single.

“Doing It To Death,” it turns out, is a slick-but-spartan throb with some chattering synths and a big, elemental riff. The band recorded it in California, and it looks like that’s where they shot the video, too. Director Wendy Morgan has put them at the center of a fashionable, heavily choreographed funeral procession. It’s a striking image from a band who knows about striking images. 

Miguel - “Waves (Tame Impala Remix)” Video (Feat. Kevin Parker)

Apparently it wasn’t enough for Tame Impala to whip the sexy, smooth batter that was Miguel’s “Waves” until it was even silkier. Frontman Kevin Parker is also featured in the video for the standout track on Miguel’s “Waves” remix EP Rogue Waves. The short clip has Miguel and Parker fittingly vibing out to the track on the beach with a couple of chairs to take in the tide crashing into the shore. Miguel is getting some good mileage out “Waves.” Hopefully this remix and video aren’t the only two things he and Tame Impala will collaborate on. The fusing of their sound and aesthetics is exquisite.

Otherwhile - “Haunt You” Video

Otherwhile is the outfit of former Ra Ra Riot cellist Alexandra Lawn and longtime collaborator Stefan Macarewich. The duo recently released their first full-length Born To Be A Stranger, and today album track “Haunt You” has been given the visual treatment. The song is wonderfully dissonant, with a bright, catchy aesthetic masking penetrating messages. The Justin Purser-directed clip picks up on darkness of the lyrics, shot in low-light with Lawn giving a passionate but somewhat detached deliverance of the vocals, evoking the emotions of the song. Lawn had this to say about the track and video:

“Haunt You” is a song about falling from grace, mostly, and owning it. We hunted for the most dingy, cold, dark, but loved cabin we could find and camped out in it for 2 days— it was like being in a time machine. Justin let the story build from there on the spot, which I think is very fitting of the song.”

Mutual Benefit - "Not For Nothing" (Official Video)

Romantic relationships are the most volatile kind; they’re scary, intense things to invest in, because once you’re committed, getting out seems like an impossibility. Mutual Benefit’s last offering, Love’s Crushing Diamond, was an album about being on the road constantly searching for something, and it navigated that sense of free-fall and displacement with knowing precision. It’s been three years since that LP was released, and it shows. Mutual Benefit’s forthcoming follow-up, Skip A Sinking Stone, questions what it requires to build a life somewhere and whether or not finding the perfect place to call home should be everyone’s end-goal.

The album’s first single, “Not For Nothing,” hinges on the moment when you leave someone behind and start to feel your love for them deepen as time and distance work together to dig a trench between you. “Winding road and setting suns/ Takes us back from where we’ve come/ And I don’t want to see this love/ Become a memory.” Missing someone is a confounding feeling, especially when you’re not the type to settle down. It’s exciting and life-affirming, but it’s also incredibly painful. “Not For Nothing” captures that particular kind of yearning perfectly. 

Banned Books - “Armor” Video

Are cows sexy animals? I never used to think so, but the Philly-based noise band Banned Books released a new video that has me feeling some type of way about our calcium-producing friends. Just kidding. This video is terrifying. “Armor” is a song off of the band’s self-titled debut album, which was released last month. Check out the Hanna Hamilton-directed clip.

Cate Le Bon - “Wonderful” (Official Video)

The music video for “Wonderful,” the first single from Cate Le Bon’s new album Crab Day, is definitely a testament to the artist’s personal and unusual style. Although director Casey Raymond places the Welsh singer within an average setting, somewhat reflective of the guitars and vocals that pervade her sound, Le Bon exhibits actions whose childishly whimsical nature fits perfectly with the song’s intermittent bursts of unpredictable and charming xylophones and horns.

Major Lazer - “Light It Up” (Feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG) Video

Major Lazer somehow became international pop stars on the strength of last year’s album Peace Is The Mission and a few of its singles, so expect them to keep pumping out singles until there are no more singles to pump out. They’ve just dropped a video for a new version of the album track “Light It Up,” which features Fuse ODG, a London singer of Ghanian descent, alongside the Jamaican singer Nyla. The group don’t appear in the video. Instead, director Sam Pilling shot it in Ghana, capturing scenes of celebration and everyday life in stately black-and-white.

Mogwai - “Ether” (Official Video)

Later this year, post-rock kings Mogwai will release Atomic, their score for Mark Cousins’ BBC documentary of the same name. We’ve posted the warm, shimmering track “Ether,” which is not a Nas cover, and now they’ve made a video for it, using images from that same documentary. In the clip, we see slow, patient, grainy footage of cells dividing, flowers opening, and, finally, humans doing human things. Watch it below, via Pitchfork.

The Range - “Five Four” Video

The Brooklyn-based producer James Hinton — bka the Range — will release his new album Potential at the end of March. We heard its first single, “Florida,” last month and today the Range debuted the video for “Five Four.” This song is a collaboration between Hinton and two up-and-coming UK-based grime artists (Ophqi and Superior Thought), and the accompanying video was directed by Daniel Kaufman. It’s a spiraling, tension-fueled track;.

The I Don’t Cares - “Whole Lotta Nothin” (Official Video)

The most famous Replacements video is hardly a video at all. The official clip for Tim anthem “Bastards Of Young” comprises footage of a stereo system playing the song for three and a half minutes. So although we would usually skip a half-assed submission like the I Don’t Cares’ new “Whole Lotta Nothin” video, which is indeed a whole lotta nothin’, it seems only right to recognize Paul Westerberg’s continued dedication to this aesthetic. Plus, considering Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield never did a pre-release stream for their album Wild Stab, this shamelessly insubstantial video is at very least a chance to remind you that the album exists and is quite good. To sweeten the deal, Westerberg does show up for a brief introduction that was apparently recorded on his phone.

Chief Keef - “Superheroes” (Feat. A$AP Rocky) Video

A$AP Rocky showed up to provide one of the few guest features on Chief Keef’s 2015 album Bang 3, and now the two rappers have joined forces again to share a new video for the collab, “Superheroes.” Directed by Phil Jackson, the clip finds them and their crews hanging out in a garage by a Lamborghini.