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I must admit to being a big fan of Lykke Li and this latest video strengthened my resolve. You can download a free copy of the track here.

written by Christopher | tags: Indie, Lykke Li, Music, Music Video, Pop

Director Martin de Thurah is rock solid and here’s some proof set to ‘Limit to Your Love’ by James Blake.

Director Martin de Thurah
Dop Kasper Tuxen
Edit Peter Brandt
Producer Maria Schou Andersen
Art dep Kristine Køster
Styling Jane Whittaker

written by Christopher | tags: James Blake, Martin de Thurah, Music Video

“Start from the Beginning” is the single from Egyptrixx off of their Bible Eyes LP (Night Slugs 2011) and serves as the track for this animated short by Berlin artist A. N. Fischer / Datdatdat. The video examines the relationship between the simulated 3D image of the art model and the actual physical art model itself. The undulating landscape in the video is based on one of Fischer´s relief sculptures.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Art, Egyptrixx, Music Video, Short Film

Field produced the stunning official music video for Stateless’ new single ‘Ariel’. The piece uses a digital dance animated in Houdini that explores the eternal struggle of good and evil. My first question after watching the piece was how they incorporated live action and you can find out by watching the making of the here.

Dance Improvisation by Dominic North.
Commissioned by Oscar & Ewan.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Animation, Ariel, Music Video, Stateless

Chris Sweeney directed this video for the Foals single ‘Blue Blood’. It’s a good song equaled by great casting and a confidently energetic performance by a young actor. Is it just me or are ‘all’ the good music videos now online (and they look better on Vimeo)?

written by Christopher | tags: Blue Blood, Chris Sweeney, Foals, Music, Music Video

Edouard Salier directed this dark 3D video for Massive Attack’s single ‘Atlas Air’. It’s a wild visual ride and Salier and his crew at Digital District have secured their place this year as premier motion/animation/3D provocateurs and who better to do so with than Massive Attack.

Lots of people involved on this one:
Artist: Massive Attack ‘Atlas Air’
Directed by Edouard Salier
Produced by: Edouard Salier, Svana Gisla and David Danesi
Production Company: Black Dog Films and Digital District Paris
CGI: Jean Lamoureux, Emilie Caudroit, Rémi Gamiette, Kevin Monthureux, Jimmy Cavé, Romuald Caudroit and Thomas Marquet.
2D: David Sapyyapy, Lou Menais, Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka.
Art & Compositing: Julien Michel, Xavier Reye and Damien Martin.
Record Company: Virgin Records
Commissioner: Svana Gisla
Special thanks to Henrique Vale, Aymeric Vin-Ramarony,
Filipe Jardim, Amandine Moulinet and Olivier Gajan.

written by Christopher | tags: 3d, Atlas Air, Massive Attack, Music Video

Yeah I know, it’s Linkin Park but hey the compositing in this video is awesome. I am not sure who directed or animated the video but it’s a great effect and even more kudos go to giving Linkin Park a makeover.

written by Christopher | tags: COMPOSITING, Linkin Park, Motion Graphics, Music Video

A talented group of artisans assembled this video for the Midnight Juggernauts single ‘Lara Vs The Savage Pack’ shooting it frame by frame using over 2000 printed pieces of paper to generate the desired effect.

Directors: Lucinda Schreiber & Beatrice Pegard
Editor – Jaan Ranniko
Producers – Jaan Ranniko, Sonia Tsai
Compositor – Simon von Wolkenstein
DOP – Tania Lambert
Art Directors – Virginia Mesiti, Kate Dougherty
Stylist – Angelika Nilsson
Masks: Stephanie Anderson & Dave Ladd

written by Christopher | tags: Midnight Juggernauts, Music, Music Video, Stop Motion

If you haven’t had the chance yet to listen to Yeasayer’s last album this might be a nice little icebreaker for you. This is the video for the single ‘Madder Red’ off of the album Odd Blood irected by Andreas Nilsson, starring the absolutely delectable Kristen Bell. I could think of worse things than being her pet even if it meant you had to be a bleeding sack of meat.

written by Christopher | tags: Kristen Bell, Madder Red, Music Video, Yeasayer

Uh. Yeah. Whoah. These guys are for real and I think they might be totally fearless.

Credits:

Directed by NINJA & Rob Malpage
Edited Saki Bergh

written by Christopher | tags: Crazy, Die Antwoord, hip hop, Music Video

Director Evan Boehm gets all ‘sciencey’ in this video for Darkstar’s new single ‘Gold’ from their upcoming release on Hyperdub records on October 18. It’s a simple concept but delicately and beautifully executed.

Darkstar: Gold – Taken from the album North, released on Hyperdub on 18th October 2010.
P and C Hyperdub 2010 Published By Virgin Music (Publishing)
Director/Animation: Evan Boehm / Director Of Photography: Mark Adcock
Programming: Max Worgan / Photographer: Matt Wilson

written by Christopher | tags: Darkstar, Even Boehm, Gold, Music Video

I received an email from ‘Kijek/Adamski’ about this weird music video for the single “W pięciu smakach” for the group Brodka that is based on a late night shopping trip to a now disappeared Warsaw shopping district called  ‘Fair Europe’ which offered up cheap clothing from Vietnamese immigrants. Yeah, I think it’s perfectly fair to call this ‘weird’, but it’s also backed by an extremely catchy song that makes me pretty curious about the rest of the album.

written by Christopher | tags: Adamski, Brodka, Kijek, Music, Music Video

Uffie is getting ‘Difficult’ spinning out an undeniably catchy little ditty backed up by an increasingly trippy yet deceptively simple video that might harken a memory or two of past directorial work from Michel Gondry.

Not entirely sure who directed it as of yet.

written by Christopher | tags: Difficult, Music Video, Psychedelic, Uffie

Squarepusher has a new release out 18th/19th October 2010 on Warp Records and are telling the world through a neon rockout jam session.

written by Christopher | tags: Album, Music, Music Video, Squarepusher

The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive video by Chris Milk that taps into Google Earth to give you a unique personal experience and interpretation of the song ‘We Used to Wait’ off of Arcade Fire’s latest album ‘The Suburbs’.

I recently heard Arcade Fire described at an advertising workshop as one of those bands that just ‘gets it’. What I think that referred to is their ability to understand that music is experiential and should be engaging. The digital environment should be embraced and used accordingly by musicians instead of being seen as a threat. Bravo for my favorite band.

Via The Denver Egotist.

written by Christopher | tags: Arcade Fire, Experimental, Interactive, Music Video

This is the video for Loyale’s single ‘Supernova’ directed by Marty Martin. There is quite a story behind the making of the video and you can watch some of that here. Director Marty Martin also breaks down a lot of the production process for the video at the Vimeo page as well.

Artist: Loyale :: loyalemusic.com :: youtube.com/LoyaleMusic
Album: The Heater :: loyale.bandcamp.com/ PREORDER
Music Producer: Teal
Director/DP/Editor/VFX: Marty Martin :: themartymartin.com
Video Producer: John Eagan

Camera: Canon 5D Mark II
Color Grading: After Effects
VFX/Compositing: After Effects + Optical Flares
Special Thanks: Andrew Kramer from VideoCopilot.net

written by Christopher | tags: Loyale, Marty Martin, Music Video, Supernova

Alright, this will be pulled within the next 36-72 hours since it’s not an official release from MGMT’s record label but the psychedelic rockers have put out this super trippy new video. It’s the best song on their new album by far in my opinion so I was pleased to see they produced a video for it. Enjoy it while you can, I will pull the post after the video goes down but repost after their is a more official release.

written by Christopher | tags: Art, Congratulations, MGMT, Music Video

I picked up on this today from the Vimeo Staff Picks (which are always awesome by the way) and really enjoyed this video for Baths new single ‘Lovely Bloodflow’ off of the recently released album ‘Cerulean’.

Credits:
Directed by Alex Takacs and Joe Nankin
— youngreplicant.com
DP: Adam Kauper
AC: Andrew Taylor
Wardobe: Lina Lund Mortensen
— cargocollective.com/linalund
Make-up: Maria Lee
— marialeemakeup.com/
VFX, Edit, Post: Alex Takacs
Featuring: Takumi Akin, Jane Kilcullen,
Molly Garber, Genevieve Ward
PAs: Ben Krueger, Katherine Carlsburg,
Andrew Scott Levy, Marcus Inglizian,
Will Wiesenfeld, Mario Luna

Very special thanks: Mike Prior, Jason Wolchuk,
Gina Dell’Amico, Jasmin Avila, Mackenzie McNabb, Robert Giardina, Nimrod Zalmanowitz

written by Christopher | tags: Baths, Lovely Bloodflow, Music, Music Video