BEA1991 - loser wins
We shared, then debut - now epic, voice of BEA few years ago and it’s time to revise and listen her latest album “Brand New Adult”. Watch the music video directed by Dim Balsem for “loser wins” leading song.
Georgia - 24 Hours
A new voice of Britain is bursting in the 2020 - meet Georgia, shortlisted for the BBC’s Sound of 2020. Her new album, Seeking Thrills, is made with a particular image in mind: “a collective group of people dancing to a pulsating, electronic beat”.
M X - Ihminen
MX ‘Ihminen’ pictures two angles in civil war setting. The first perspective follows father and son - who are assassinated and seek shelter. The second storyline goes a little back in time and follows their enemy in the very same battle, who has lost an important person and now seeks revenge.
The film explores the themes of compassion and violence as a form of expression, how different people react to it, confront it and how the acts of violence can separate us from one another. Ultimately the two narratives merge together and the two enemies re-discover the humane connection and find the redemption in form of compassion. Meanwhile the lyrics question what defines a good person.
The music video uses unusual blend of cinematic and musical storytelling. The 8 minute epic includes title sequences, audio landscapes and the track is re-arranged to evoke vivid emotions blending between the worlds of film score and pop sound.
MX ensemble is formed by an award winning Finnish musicians and ‘Ihminen’ is their first music video and single release. The song ‘Ihminen’ is mastered by Chris Gehringer (Lana Del Rey, Rihanna, Jay Z) and the video is directed by Sakari Lerkkanen.
Niia - Whatever You Got
Watch Whatever You Got performed and directed by Niia with Elias Talbot
Tourist Company - 'Til We Disappear
“’Til We Disappear is the most personal song that the band has released. It’s based on a real-life event in the life of Taylor, but we wanted the video to reflect the emotion of that rather than a specific event. When brainstorming with our Director - Sterling - we wanted the video to feel like it wasn’t taking place in reality, and could have the viewer's own personal experience and emotion put into it. Its a relationship based video that, to me, can convey the emotions of loss, grief, anger, all of which I feel like can resonate with anyone who’s been tied up with a significant other.“
Mujuice - Circle of Salt
Russian electronic talent Mujuice (Roman Litvinov) was happy to work with another local gem Zhenya Borzykh (SPBCH) reached director Kirill Novikov to create music video for “Circle of Salt” taken from Regress LP. The plot shows what drives people to choose violence as a life path.
Production – Spot
POPPY - Fill The Crown
Digitally immersive artist POPPY shares her new music video “Fill The Crown”
Stelartronic - Last Man Standing
New Parov Stelar’s affair called Stelartronic just dropped their fresh release of “Last Man Standing”
MGMT - In the Afternoon
MGMT are back with a new song. It’s called “In the Afternoon” and you can check it out below, along with a retro, self-directed video.
Billie Eilish - xanny
Billie Eilish self-directed music video for “xanny” song taken from her award-winning album “"WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?"
Mujuice - Motherland
Rare music video comes from Mujuice. A robotic onslaught of acid and electro, ‘Motherland’ sees Mujuice deliver a cold, industrial-sounding track that’s simultaneously highly danceable.
Mujuice - Wormwood Star
Russian leading electronic artist Mujuice released a new composition “Wormwood Star” from the upcoming album “Regress”
Coldplay - Daddy
Daddy is taken from the new album, Everyday Life, out now
Directed by Åsa Lucander
Produced by Aardman
Animations Puppetry by Brunskill & Grimes
Parov Stelar - Voodoo Sonic
„Vooodoo Sonic“, the EP’s title track, with its compelling samples is pure Parov Stelar, driving and danceable.
FUCKING DOWN - Fatal Tiger
Fucking Down is latest music video directed by Spanish filmmaker Amanda Lago for musician Fatal Tiger. The video explores the struggle we face in accepting ourselves by portraying and engaging with the most extreme aspects of our personality. Produced by Lapiscina.
Set in a futuristic dystopian era with a strong retro aesthetic, Fucking Down presents us with
several women of different ages surrounding the singer in a somber hotel room. Though similar in
appearance, each reflects a unique trait spanning across the whole spectrum of human emotions.
From playful and kind to brutal and fierce, the singer finds herself at their complete mercy with
almost no control over their actions.
A carefully constructed and purposefully repetitive choreography illustrates this scenario, with each
cycle featuring slightly different movements - some more exaggerated and violent and some more
restrained and controlled. This reiteration gives the protagonist the chance to react differently each
time and learn more about herself, leading her to predict patterns in her own behaviour and
gradually accept herself.
“I wanted to recreate a chaotic
environment, in which emotions and feelings are presented through an almost delirious dance. We
live in an era in which we obsess over how others perceive us. This has led us to meticulously
curate the way we present ourselves to the world, setting highly unrealistic expectations while still
trying to come across as authentic Fucking Down is an interpretation of how this dynamic affects
us, expressed through a visual orgy of senses in what becomes an ongoing and vicious journey in
understanding and accepting ourselves”
Fucking Down is the second production directed by Lago in collaboration with Fatal Tiger. Lago’s
previous works have won awards internationally, including Best Song Soundie 2017, and have
been been selected across several international film festivals, including Berlin Fashion Film
Festival, Fashion Film Festival Milano, LA Fashion Film Festival and Video Art and Experimental
Film Festival in New York.
Maslo Chernogo Tmina - The Untitled
The musician's experimental video Maslo Chernogo Tmina does not have a clear narrative, it is rather a surrealistic and gloomy metaphor of compassion, in which a cafe with post-Soviet aesthetics, detached from a particular time, is assigned the meaning of Purgatory, and his occasional guests - the images of lost souls, for which their last song becomes a background for a mystical ritual-transition.
All the roles in the video were performed by unprofessional actors without any on camera experience. According to the director's plan, in order to uncover the personality types as much as possible, they were given complete freedom of action, which was fixed by the camera.
Written and directed by Lado Kvataniya
Director of Photography | Kirill Groshev
Producer | Arseniy Zyabbarov
Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted
Billie Eilish shared the official artwork from her highly-anticipated single, ‘Everything I Wanted’
James Massiah - Natural Born Killers (Ride For Me)
James Massiah's debut single Natural Born Killers (Ride For Me) got a melting hot video directed by Ian Pons Jewell
Peggy Gou - Starry Night
Directed by Jonas Lindstroem and shot entirely in and around Seoul, Korea, DJ Peggy Gou released a video for her “Starry Night” single