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Jade
"Midnight Cowboy" |
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3 mins 52s
3 Oct 2024 |
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Former Little Mixer Jade Thirlwell, now known simply as JADE ups the ante with this banger, and this visualiser from Fa and Fon makes a good fist of matching its energy. Catwalking her way through fountains, the singer appears to be being papped with every stride to judge by the continuous camera flashes.
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Nigo
"Dope Boy (w/ Young Thug)" |
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1 min 54s
3 Oct 2024 |
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a piece of advertising content dressed up to look like a promo? Did they release it before they'd completed it? Is it a mess? The answers to these questions are 'no', 'no', 'possibly', 'it looks like it' and 'yes'. The best thing that can be said about this is that it's less than two minutes.
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Sasha Keable
"Take Your Time (ft. 6lack)" |
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3 mins 55s
3 Oct 2024 |
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The setting is great so kudos to production designer Yusuf Ahmed but the slice of life approach doesn't really sustain nearly four minutes of promo. Sasha Keable has a lot of presence, but the same cannot be said of guest vocalist 6lack and his low-key contribution to the track is matched by a similar energy in the video.
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Franz Ferdinand
"Audacious" |
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3 mins 27s
3 Oct 2024 |
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Franz Ferdinand know the Barrowland Ballroom inside out. Alex Kapranos and company have played it many times over the years, and DAVID's got a ticket for 7 March 2025. The promo for 'Audacious' cements the idea that the Glasgow venue is home.
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ScHoolboy Q
"THank god 4 me" |
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4 mins 08s
2 Oct 2024 |
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There are shades (pun intended) of 'Without Me' by Eminem to Schoolboy Q's 'Thank God 4 Me'. The latter once rapped: “It feels so empty without me"—now, with tongue-in-cheek brio, the former wants to be the centre of attention after five years away.
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A$AP Rocky
"HIGHJACK (ft. Jessica Pratt)" |
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3 mins 13s
1 Oct 2024 |
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ASAP Rocky's fourth album was meant to come out on August 30, 2024. Leaks and sample clearances put paid to that, so fans must content themselves with a drip-feed of tracks from 'Don’t Be Dumb'. The latest, 'HIGHJACK', is complemented by a black-and-white music video with shades of German expressionism and hood futurism.
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Kill Screen Music
"Stay Forever (Trailer)" |
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1 Oct 2024 |
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The music video for 'Stay Forever' by Kill Screen Music gets its own teaser courtesy of frontman Johan Stahl. The obvious touchstone is 'Prometheus': two astronauts use a drone to map a cave before a cephalopod alien attacks. So long as no-one runs in a straight line like Charlize Theron, the main event should be worth a gander.
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Billie Eilish
"Birds of a Feather" |
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3 mins 35s
30 Sep 2024 |
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Even Billie Eilish has to go back to the office some time. At least she has the place to herself in the promo for 'Birds of a Feather’', a summer breeze of a track that makes you feel fine. It's a love song to the core, but shot through with Eilish's wounded melancholy ("And if I'm turning blue, please don't save me/Nothing left to lose without my baby").
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Justice & Tame Impala
"Neverender" |
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3 mins 20s
26 Sep 2024 |
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The music video for Justice and Tame Impala’s collaboration is an anime-style intergalactic adventure. The fluid and ever-morphing visuals keep to the pace of the track, with the exception of some chic slower moments, and reflect its distorted synths. But it does feel rather reminiscent of Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ album film, the iconic ‘Interstella 5555’.
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Glass Animals
"Show Pony" |
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4 mins 30s
26 Sep 2024 |
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The space theme of Glass Animals’ latest album material continues, as does the band’s penchant for quirky promos. Shot with Stink’s Mexico arm as the service company, the promo for ‘Show Pony’, a song about revenge, features a space alien couple, a standard earth cow, jealousy, plot twists, murder, and an accidental and unfortunate barbeque.
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Arca & Tokischa
"Chama" |
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4 mins 10s
25 Sep 2024 |
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Dominican rapper Tokischa and Barcelona-based Venezuelan music artist Arca's collaboration 'Chama' has been enhanced no end by this compelling promo by CANADA's STILLZ. Thanks to some clever prosthetics work from Cristina Iglesias, the duo are depicted as heavily pregnant in a film that looks like it was made using a 1980s camcorder.
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Rüfüs Du Sol
"Break My Love" |
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4 mins 20s
23 Sep 2024 |
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This is exactly the kind of espionage film you’d expect from Rüfüs Du Sol, more chiller than thriller. In style true to the Aussie electronic band they keep things cool and subdued, even while striding around Mexico City on an apparent spy mission, and somehow manage to make 70s suits, mo’s and contenders for the world’s worst wigs look kind of rad.
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Snow Patrol
"All" |
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4 mins 46s
19 Sep 2024 |
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In a multi-camera shoot, with a kit list ranging from 16mm film cameras to GoPros, director Edie Amos and a small crew captured Snow Patrol’s new single ‘All’, performed live in Limerick. With only one chance to get the shots, the result is an accomplished piece of filmmaking in the budget-challenged tier of the music video world.
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The Weeknd
"Dancing in the Flames" |
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4 mins 16s
19 Sep 2024 |
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This promo was shot entirely on the iPhone16 Pro, but it’s not altogether what you’d expect from The Weeknd. This is first and foremost an Apple ad, and as a branded content film it’s polished. But as a music video, while it has elements of The Weeknd and director Anton Tammi’s previous collaboration for 'Blinding Lights', it’s lacking the fire that promo achieved.
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Lynda Dawn
"11th Hour" |
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4 mins 11s
19 Sep 2024 |
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DAVID cannot move for black-and-white music videos at the moment. The latest arrives courtesy of director Ricky Rxse, who delivers a classy, monochrome number for Lynda Dawn's soulful '11th Hour'. Dawn is extroverted and introverted in equal measure, which determines her body language, hairstyle, and clothes.
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Decius
"Walking in the Heat" |
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3 mins 40s
19 Sep 2024 |
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In 'Pulp Fiction', Zed tells Maynard to "bring out the gimp". This promo for Decius is that scene crossed with Rose Royce's 'Car Wash', and that is fine by us. Frontman Lias Saoudi, who rocks a pair of leather trunks, is led to the boot of a yellow Lotus Elan, then driven to the local car wash. It's here where the kinky son of a gun puts staff to shame.
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Louis Culture
"Babe (feat. Richie and Tora-i)" |
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3 mins 08s
18 Sep 2024 |
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This monochromatic promo by Eleanor's Ella Ezeike offers a refreshingly romantic perspective of the gritty streets of London. Skipping joyously past the usual stereotypes, it captures the feel of a languid urban summer with fun and games both in the street and in the bedroom.
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Leona Rue
"Bad Song" |
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3 mins 07s
18 Sep 2024 |
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Singer-songwriter Leona Rue's alarm goes off at 11:05 on Wednesday 24. She goes on a terrible date with a bloke who drives a Porsche and mansplains a goddamn magic trick. Oh, well, tomorrow is another day, right? Not if you're trapped in a music video directed by Ruby Ballantyne, who delivers her affable own spin on 'Groundhog Day'.
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Dead Chic
"Paris" |
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4 mins 10s
18 Sep 2024 |
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A Dead Chic promo with shades of 'Dead Man'? Anastasja Black sure knows how to spoil us. Like Jim Jarmusch's acid Western, 'Paris' is shot in black and white, but filmed in Spain's Tabernas Desert like a Spaghetti Western. If Black and DP Rowan Biddiscombe wanted to celebrate the genre, they've done a bang-up job.
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Jungle
"Let's Go Back" |
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3 mins 29s
18 Sep 2024 |
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Jungle and Charlie Di Placido go back a long way. He's co-directed a bunch of promos with Josh Lloyd-Watson, one of the three band members, and 'Let's Go Back' keeps the tradition alive. It's another one-take effort from the pair, and a box- clever one at that.
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Michael Kiwanuka
"Lowdown (Parts I and II)" |
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5 mins 58s
17 Sep 2024 |
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Michael Kiwanuka fans get two songs for the price of one courtesy of 'Lowdown'. Part one is a melancholy acoustic number, while part two is an instrumental jam that says it's OK to nip to the bar. Director Blackwall bridges the gap between the two sounds with a promo about the purity of a solo bike ride at sundown.
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Friedberg
"Hardcore Workout Queen" |
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3 mins 27s
17 Sep 2024 |
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'Hardcore Workout Queen' by Friedberg is a "you do you" song through and through. Want to "kill it on the row machine”? Go for it. Prefer to slip into a food coma ("I've got cake, you can have quinoa")? Knock yourself out! No judgement here, the band promise—just the witty title track from Anna F, Emily Linden, Cheryl Pinero, and Fifi Dewey's debut album.
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FKA twigs
"Eusexua" |
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7 mins 57s
16 Sep 2024 |
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Jordan Hemingway has directed the promo for FKA Twigs’s latest single. It’s one part commercial music video, one part experimental art film, and a wholly captivating visual expression of the artist’s music. Twigs describes ‘Eusexua’ as “a practice, a state of being, the pinnacle of human experience”, and Hemingway brings that into sharp focus.
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Joe Hisaishi
"Movement 2 (Part I)" |
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5 mins 23s
16 Sep 2024 |
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Studio Ghibli fans will appreciate the new release from Joe Hisaishi, composer of eleven Hayao Miyazaki films. This is only part one of 'Movement 2', so expect to be, erm, moved again in the near future. Rich Hall's Vienna-set promo is all about how we move through time and space, as Jessie Mei Li (Alina Starkov in ‘Shadow and Bone’) explores the Austrian capital.
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Fred Again
"Just Stand There" |
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4 mins 37s
16 Sep 2024 |
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It's a question that's plagued mankind since 1993: "What is love?" Over thirty years after Haddaway’s debut single, Fred Again and Soak have some thoughts on the matter. Spoken rather than sung, Soak's lyrics are sweet ("It felt like all four seasons happened in one day") and savoury ("The first crunch of Tayto cheese and onion crisps"). You never know—that might net them a free shipment.
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