March 28, 2011
Metronomy “The Look” (via youarelosttothesea)
Not super into the stop motion seagulls, but I can definitely get behind that gigantic organ thing. Metronomy is a band I’m always only kind of on the verge of actually, intentionally liking, but often enjoy in a passive, distracted way. Maybe this new album will be the kicker? I’m liking this song, but the jury remains out (and distracted).
(Source: vimeo.com, via youarelosttothesea)
October 6, 2010
“General Motors, Detroit, America” by Acid Washed
Anthony Burrill in collaboration with Paul Plowman and Zac Ella
Yep, still a sucker for music + moving shapes and colors. Nicely done.
March 29, 2010
Steve Jobs vs. Ying Yang Twins, round one. Best Mac rap since this.
March 24, 2010
March 12, 2010
children & olafur eliasson by Ryan Jeffery
Beautiful little video by Ryan Jeffery, whom you may recognize as the guy who made that awesome Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose video I posted a couple days ago. Epic.
March 11, 2010
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose “Younger”
Really lovely video by my very talented friend Ryan Jeffery. The album, Bridge Carols, is out now on my label, Holocene Music. More info and digital/physical purchase options here.
February 22, 2010
Kumisolo “Cheap Pop Song”
Directed by Rhett Dashwood
Playful, cute video featuring a whole bunch of fingers.
February 6, 2010
Nice Nice “Everything Falling Apart” (buy me)
Video by Yoshi Sodeoka. I wrote a bunch of stuff about how much I love Nice Nice here.
(via yacht)
February 5, 2010
Really nice.
December 22, 2009
August 28, 2009
Beck “Pay No Mind”
“Like a giant dildo crushing the sun.” So good. Also, Beck is posting hi-res versions of his old videos here.
April 20, 2009
Alela Diane - “Every Path” (DUMBO West Session)
Nice to see Rough Trade continuing with these beautifully shot, intimate performance videos for Alela. She’s a talented lady, and a total sweetheart. You can purchase the new album in a bunch of formats (including double vinyl and FLAC) here, and I posted the other video here.
March 25, 2009
Pretty next-level video for Department of Eagles’ “Nobody Does It Like You,” directed by Marcel Dzama and Patrick Daughters. Daughters’ did that famous-ish Feist “1-2-3-4” video, which makes sense given all the choreography going on here. Interesting to see Dzama doing videos now. This one definitely looks like a live-action incarnation of his creepy/pretty drawings. I do wonder where videos like this end up these days. This one seems too violent for MTV, and getting posted on Pitchfork and Stereogum (and TRMW!!!) only goes so far. The directors can use this in their reels and get paid buttloads for commercial work, but how much does this do for record sales? I’d say that’s the elephant in the room regarding the current music-videos-on-the-web renaissance. Regardless, this still stands as quite lovely art-in-and-of-itself, which makes sense given that it premiered at MOMA.
