Vee Hua 華婷婷Hey, way to go Sebastien Tellier and team, for creating a video that is centered around a cartoon ass (or ambiguously flowy, butt-shaped shorts, to begin with) that somehow mesmerizes viewers. I’m watching this in a coffee shop right now and...
With one of their new videos, Chico Fellini have taken their music a more synth-rock route. This video is a blur of a Christmas Eve nightmare, with a crazy guy going rage-a-hol one a Christmas tree.
Unicycle Loves You might craft songs with straight-forward pop hooks and beats, but there’s always something more complicated under the surface. In the case of “Justine”, the dissonant guitarwork is certainly hypnotic. This video...
Shannon WiedeyNice, Nice, Very Nice is more than just nice. Mangan expertly blends folk rock and country with expressive lyrics that build vivid stories. Mangan’s voice has the gravelly tones and vulnerability of Damien Rice or Conor Oberst, but with...
Sebastian Blanck’s Alibi Coast is a folk album with an intimate feel. Blanck’s vocals are heavily doubled in an attempt to sound harmonized and choral (think: Fleet Foxes). As the album plays, the songs begin to melt together, making...
This video, from Brad Laner’s album, Natural Selections, takes images of cityscapes and reduces them to obscured, colorful geometric squares and rectangles. The shots are then edited so that the transitions between shots match up with the...
Comadre came through Seattle with Glasses from Germany and local metal heroes Black Breath. In this video, the band plays their smash-and-grab take on skramz and hardcore. The songs in this part of the set are “Count Basie Box Set,”...
I’m truly curious how this video concept ever came to fruition, for who would think about doing a stop-motion animation of a painted gourd being sliced and diced? Consistent with Neon Indian nature, though, the video turns into an exploration...