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ROSÉ
"Toxic Till the End" |
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3 mins 53s
10 Dec 2024 |
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Rosé, one-fourth of South Korean girl group BLACKPINK, channels Avril Lavinge with new song 'Toxic Till the End'. As she and 'Gossip Girl' actor Evan Mock embark on a bad romance on a country estate, Rosé admits it's a once bitten, forever smitten kind of deal ("I said, "I never wanna see your face/I meant I couldn't wait to see it again").
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Jim E Brown
"I Find Sex Abhorrent" |
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2 mins 15s
10 Dec 2024 |
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After a pint of Fat Dog in the Marquis of Granby, DAVID's London pub crawl continues with a trip to the Marquis of Lorne in Brixton. Here we find Jim E Brown, a singer and songwriter who cannot be arsed with sex, to be honest, but human biology has other ideas. His rant starts and ends in the bathroom in a low-key feat of camerawork.
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Luna
"Personal Torture" |
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3 mins 01s
9 Dec 2024 |
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As the internet tries to come to terms with whatever in God’s name the live-action 'Snow White' trailer was all about, this promo for Polish singer-songwriter Luna is a neat take on the mirror mirror on the wall meme. A portal lets her confront elements of herself that linger in the darkness (and get special treatment from the costume department).
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Fat Dog
"Peace Song" |
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3 mins 13s
9 Dec 2024 |
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The Marquis of Granby in New Cross is an equal opportunity employer. It may have gone down like a lead balloon with locals, but the pub hired an honest-to-God alien (Peter Liddell) with black holes for eyes and no ears. It also wears a Charles Barkley top over a shirt and tie, just to stand out even more somehow.
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X-Coast
"Deejay Academy" |
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10 mins 37s
9 Dec 2024 |
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Serbian-born DJ Bojan Cizmic has put a lot of effort into the lore of his stage name, X-Coast (check out his website for a logo inspired by isometric RPGs). Now he's teamed up with director Tom Clover to release a ten-and-a-half minute mockumentary about his Deejay Academy ("This is your way to the top"). The graduation party should be a riot.
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Coldplay
"All My Love feat. Dick Van Dyke" |
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7 mins 18s
8 Dec 2024 |
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All being well, Dick Van Dyck will enjoy his 99th birthday later this week. Best known in America for the eponymous Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66), and best known in the UK for Mary Poppins (1964) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), the avuncular star is one of the entertainment business's most cherished performers.
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Primal Scream
"The Centre Cannot Hold" |
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3 mins 42s
6 Dec 2024 |
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Fans of Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' and Michael Reeves's 'Witchfinder General' will appreciate this Primal Scream promo shot in Thamesmead, London. Frontman Bobby Gillespie struts like Alexander DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) next to Southmere Lake, but dresses like Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price). What a double bill.
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Jme
"On Top" |
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1 min 52s
6 Dec 2024 |
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Grime MC JME says "on top" a lot in a track called… 'On Top'. Now that we know where Jamie Adenuga is at all times, we can focus on the beautiful dark twisted fantasy of a promo directed by Will Morgan. Pentagrams, graveyards, and soulless record label executives make this a short but sinister nightmare before Christmas.
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BXKS
"Wagashi" |
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2 mins 30s
4 Dec 2024 |
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In-form director Lauzza swaps 'Dance Dance Revolution' for Neo-Tokyo with the music video for 'Wagashi'. Inspired by the look of 'Akira' and broader Japanese culture, the film turns London into a tech-noir metropolis for Luton MC BXKS. The Shard looks so much better in shades of neon red and green, don't you think?
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KSI
"Thick of It (ft. Trippie Redd)" |
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2 mins 56s
4 Dec 2024 |
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DAVID was disappointed to learn that 'Thick of It' by KSI was not inspired by 'The Thick of It', Armando Iannucci's classic political satire. Instead, we have a song that's more meme than music at this point. This is in large part down to the Lunchly mould scandal and whatever KSI vs Tommy Fury was.
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YT
"Prada or Celine" |
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2 mins 57s
29 Nov 2024 |
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In October, DAVID featured a Fimiguerrero/YT promo that honoured the 'NBA Street' series. Now we have a music video inspired by 'Dance Dance Revolution', an arcade staple that makes 'Strictly' look like a walk in the park. YT's friend, played by choreographer Elita Atwere, makes a beeline for the machine, but the rapper's not so sure.
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Hasna
"Dettes et Doutes" |
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3 mins 26s
29 Nov 2024 |
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Luis Rojo of BRBR directs an Anglo-French music video/fashion film for Hasna, who says 'dettes & doutes' was "born from true friendship in a small coffee shop in north London". DAVID hopes they serve coffee stronger than the place he went to earlier—he wants a twitch in his eye and a spring in his step, damn it!
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Reverend and the Makers
"Late Night Phone Call" |
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3 mins 08s
27 Nov 2024 |
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As the fortieth-anniversary version of Band Aid's 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' rubs folk up the wrong way, Reverend and the Makers are on safer ground with 'Late Night Phone Call', a tie-up with suicide prevention charity Samaritans. Frontman Jon McClure's walk home from the pub is like a sozzled take on ‘A Christmas Carol'.
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Saweetie
"Is It the Way" |
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2 mins 44s
26 Nov 2024 |
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In this cheeky promo for her track 'Is it the Way', Saweetie attempts to solve the deep seated mystery of her attractiveness. She puts forward all kinds of theories about the different aspects of her that might be to blame for the attention she receives and, all along the way, Tajana Tokyo captures her popping and slaying in various London locations.
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Everything Is Recorded
"Losing You" |
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3 mins 10s
26 Nov 2024 |
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Richard Russell is music through and through. Not only does Russell own XL Recordings, home of Radiohead, Fontaines DC, Peggy Gou, et al., but he also performs under the name Everything is Recorded. His new song, 'Losing You', features… well, more artists than this paragraph can handle.
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Audrey Nuna
"Mine" |
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3 mins 01s
25 Nov 2024 |
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Audrey Nuna, the US rapper and singer with the longest pigtails in the business, returns with 'Mine', a track that asks: "Guess how many times I can make you cry/Guess how many times I can leave you dry." It's not a Christmas song, then, but director Zac Dov Wiesel's analogue-meets-digital promo does have an ice-cold colour palette throughout.
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Yvnnis
"Pauleta" |
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2 mins 19s
22 Nov 2024 |
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'Pauleta' by Yvnnis is not the first song to be named after a Paris Saint-Germain player (AJ Tracey and Dave released 'Thiago Silva' in 2016). Still, we hope the Portuguese appreciates legend the effort, as well as how promo director and Blinkink newcomer Léa Esmaili incorporates his shirt into a mixed-media melee.
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Nimino
"I Only Smoke When I Drink" |
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4 mins 18s
22 Nov 2024 |
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'I Only Smoke When I Drink' sums up DAVID's university years. When the music got too loud in a club (how are you meant to talk to people in those places), he'd nip outside for some 'fresh' air. But enough about his brief love affair with Marlboro Bright Leaf—'I Only Smoke When I Drink' is also the new song from London- based producer and musician Nimino.
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Saint Jhn
"Body on Me" |
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3 mins 55s
21 Nov 2024 |
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There are shades of 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence' and 'Humans' to the promo for 'Body on Me', a song by Brooklyn rapper-singer Saint Jhn. A woman (Lourette Osei) orders a robot (Saint Jhn) from Body-OM, a company that promises “almost human” results. Right away, DAVID likes how much detail has gone into the instruction manual.
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Franz Ferdinand
"Night or Day" |
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3 mins 44s
19 Nov 2024 |
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Shot on 16mm in black-and-white, Rianne White's promo for 'Night or Day' is a close encounter with Franz Ferdinand. The monochrome film is shot at the same studio where they recorded sixth album 'The Human Fear', which might explain why Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy, Julian Corrie, Dino Bardot, and Audrey Tait are so in the zone.
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Sub Focus, Katy B
"Push the Tempo" |
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2 mins 38s
19 Nov 2024 |
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Nifty camerawork abounds in this promo for Sub Focus and Katy B's 'Push the Tempo'. Directors Three Shade and Duncan Lewis, DP Stephen Dunn, and bullet time buff Hank Zoid combine to deliver a film about reverie on the dancefloor. The camera rotates around a couple of dancers in particular who are lost in a sweaty night that still has plenty to offer.
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Hak Baker
"No Control!" |
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2 mins 46s
14 Nov 2024 |
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Priya Ahluwalia directs the promo for Hak Baker’s latest single from his recent EP. There’s a party going on at the Baker residence, and all the kids have been shut upstairs and told to entertain themselves. Unsurprisingly that doesn’t last long, and soon everyone’s dancing and living it up downstairs, where the camera’s in constant motion to capture the energy of the room.
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Disclosure
"Arachnids" |
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4 mins 11s
12 Nov 2024 |
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'Arachnids' by Disclosure is not the theme song to a horror movie called 'Arachnids'. Nor is it a nod to that episode of Doctor Who where giant spiders invade Sheffield. Instead, it's a bassy, no-nonsense dance track that suggests Howard and Guy Lawrence are back on the night shift.
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Gabriel Gifford
"Barking Dogs Seldom Bite" |
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2 mins 39s
8 Nov 2024 |
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It's hard to befriend a song like Gabriel Gifford's 'Barking Dogs Seldom Bite'. We doubt it gives a toss, but still—not a pleasant listen. The promo is a better watch, at least, with the experimental musician forced to endure a lock-in at a pub with contemporary dance on tap. A whole new spin on the term 'blind drunk'.
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Lady Gaga
"Disease" |
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4 mins 21s
6 Nov 2024 |
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Perhaps Halloween’s been extended this year and the US election results are one giant trick. Wishful thinking or not, Lady Gaga’s new promo, directed by Tanu Muiño, is a certified twisted treat. It’s classic Gaga in that she throws her all into it (including her demons), and it’s classic Muiño in being a high concept music video with a fashion editorial feel.
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