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Madonna
"Dark Ballet" |
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6 mins 26s
13 Jun 2019 |
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Music fans and concerned onlookers have pondered how Madonna would bounce back after her iffy performance at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Answer: a six-and-a-half-minute promo inspired by the life and death of Joan of Arc and festooned with charged religious imagery. Yep, that'll do the trick.
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slenderbodies
"Belong" |
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3 mins 13s
6 Jun 2019 |
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This sweeping promo for California psych-pop duo slenderbodies takes a trip along the Russian-Chinese border, offering a quietly engrossing look at how two world powers sit side-by-side for over four-thousand kilometres. Along the way, director Savannah Setten meets falconers, street racers, mushers, and ice water swimmers.
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Hot Chip
"Melody of Love" |
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4 mins 19s
5 Jun 2019 |
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Given that Hot Chip's upcoming seventh album is entitled ‘A Bath Full of Ecstasy' (complete with New Age cover art), it's safe to assume the band are in a good - perhaps hallucinatory - mood. Fortunately, promo director Nima Nourizadeh is on the same wavelength as he delivers this spacey effort for single ‘Melody of Love'.
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Rosalía
"Aute Cuture" |
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2 mins 54s
4 Jun 2019 |
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Rosalia flaunts some seriously wicked nails in her latest video, which feels like a Brazilian take on Bollywood (Brollywood?) with its vibrant, busy choreography. The narrative is that Autre Cuture is a mysterious beauty cult whose nail art skills are so perfect that magical properties are bestowed on the hands of their recipients.
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Tom Wilson Kellett
"17" |
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4 mins 58s
29 May 2019 |
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Henry Crisp's unsettling promo for '17' features singer Tom Wilson Kellett stuck in a house whose miniature dimensions suggest he has sipped the same potion that Alice did inside the White Rabbit's house. The beautifully designed doll-sized set is gradually submerged beneath a foul black liquid exuding from the bath... does it swallow its giant inhabitant too?
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Bree Runway
"2ON" |
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3 mins 23s
29 May 2019 |
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Bree Runway takes a sensual romp into alternate realities with this gripping promo from Fred Rowson. Her second collaboration with the director (following 2017's 'What Do I Tell My Friends?') goes high-concept, exploring the idea of skin colour and gender as fashion accessories which can be purchased and applied at will. A fascinating, satirical watch.
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Diplo
"New Shapes (ft. Octavian)" |
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3 mins
28 May 2019 |
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This woozy promo finds Diplo and guest vocalist Octavian in pensive mood, as the latter tries to make sense of the night before in a hazy flat. As he slowly but surely shakes off the cobwebs, we're eventually transported to the site of the previous night's festivities - a sweatbox of a club bathed in red, blue, and fire extinguisher fumes.
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Marika Hackman
"I’m Not Where You Are" |
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3 mins 49s
24 May 2019 |
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Folk-rock fave Marika Hackman's lyrics are often preoccupied with dysfunctional relationships, and latest outing 'I'm Not Where You Are' is no exception. The film opens with a dead-eyed Hackman losing a succession of lovers in the same way - not a single one sparking the barest hint of emotion. Director Will Hooper creates an admirably grungy vibe here, as Hackman's haunting vocals couple with her striking non-reaction.
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Shey Baba
"Requiem" |
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13 mins 37s
24 May 2019 |
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Fans of LA singer-songwriter Shey Baba get four songs for the price of one as director David M Helman releases his full ‘Requiem' promo-cum-short film. New tracks ‘Requiem' and ‘I Want It All' join ‘Born Sick' and ‘Vertigo', which both featured in Helman's intriguing opening gambit back in April. Definitely one to settle in for.
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Shakespears Sister
"All the Queen's Horses" |
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3 mins 30s
23 May 2019 |
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After the unpleasant public dumping of Marcella Detroit by Siobhan Fahey, it would have been fair to think the froth-goth music of Shakespears Sister was well and truly over. Not so: having put aside their feud, the pair have reunited for this western-themed comeback in which they walk off into the monochrome sunset hand in hand.
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FKA twigs
"Cellophane" |
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4 mins 22s
23 May 2019 |
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FKA twigs spent the last year learning to pole dance purely to realise the video she felt simply had to go with latest song 'Cellophane'. Having started at a time when she was recovering from surgery to remove fibroids, she posted clips of herself practising and becoming ever stronger - and twelve or so months later this promo, courtesy of Andrew Thomas Huang, is the breathtaking result.
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Trish Clowes
"Abbott & Costello" |
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6 mins 58s
22 May 2019 |
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Those of a certain vintage will instantly associate jazz with The Fast Show's Louis Balfour and his smoke-filled lair. Unlike the chain-smoker's array of musically challenged guests, Shrewsbury-born saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes knows how to do her craft justice. Clowes's latest track ‘Abbott & Costello' receives a tricksy promo courtesy of director Rose Hendry.
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Lil Nas X
"Old Town Road (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus)" |
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5 mins 06s
21 May 2019 |
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Why did no-one think of it before? Of course hip-hop and country are a match made in heaven. It's so obvious listening to this, dammit. Thank you, Lil Naz (real name Montero Hill) for exploding onto the music scene with this magical number, and for asking the universe (okay, Twitter) for Billy Ray Cyrus to contribute a verse.
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Dense & Pika
"Slowhand" |
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4 mins 34s
20 May 2019 |
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This hypnotic promo for Dense & Pika's ‘Slowhand' is a phonographic trip. Set deep within the horn of a gramophone, director Ben Parkin's blend of live-action and animation shows precisely what happens when needle meets vinyl… and it involves, to borrow a phrase from Elton John, a tiny dancer. Surreal yet infectiously so.
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Heavy Baile
"Ciranda (ft. Goes)" |
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3 mins 30s
17 May 2019 |
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There's clocking off, and there's clocking off the Jonathan Neguebites way. Those unfamiliar with the passing dancer are in for a treat thanks to this celebratory promo for Heavy Baile, an electronic music collective from Rio de Janeiro. The city's back alleys and railway lines provide an engaging backdrop to Neguebites' joyful, infectious performance.
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Mark Ronson
"Late Night Feelings (ft. Lykke Li)" |
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3 mins 41s
16 May 2019 |
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Mark Ronson fuses steel drums and Scandi-pop in his mellow comeback single ‘Late Night Feelings', as guest vocalist Lykke Li lets inhibitions melt away in the accompanying promo. Director JP Chartrand mainlines 1970s glamour as the Swede cavorts around her swanky pad and melts into her shag carpet - with an uber-quiffed Ronson in her sights.
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Sludge
"Blacksmith" |
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3 mins 36s
13 May 2019 |
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Hardcore electronic band Sludge get a frenetic promo for their debut track, courtesy of Kenneth Karlstad. With its 90s VHS-style aesthetic and psychoholic skinheads it paints a bleak picture of an Eastern Bloc world where violence rules and victims are initiated into a warped, disorientating reality. Unsettling, original work that doesn't shy away from the track's viscerality.
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Gorgon City
"Delicious" |
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4 mins 01s
9 May 2019 |
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Electronic duo Gorgon City - comprised of North London producers Kye 'Foamo' Gibbon and Matt 'RackNRuin' Robson-Scott - take sensuality seriously in this visceral promo for latest single 'Delicious'. Combining mouth-watering food photography and the surreal flares of a bad trip, the imagery is just as bold as the track's beat-driven tones.
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The Voidz
"Permanent High School" |
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4 mins 13s
9 May 2019 |
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On the evidence of new track ‘Permenant High School', The Voidz (formerly known as Julian Casablancas + The Voidz) have tempered the batshit excess of their first album for something verging on listenable. Persevere with frontman Casablancas's apathetic drawl and enjoy director Hala Matar's boisterous lo-fi promo.
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Lee Ann Womack
"Hollywood" |
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4 mins 50s
8 May 2019 |
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Country and western singer Lee Ann Womack's ‘Hollywood' tackles a stalling relationship through heartworn lyrics and an unexpectedly moving promo, courtesy of director Chris Ullens and, well, a couple of plastic dolls. Thus, broken hearts and articulated joints are the order of the day in Ullens's Californian toy story.
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Joseph Shabason
" I Don't Want To Be Your Love (ft. Dan Bejar)" |
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4 mins 43s
7 May 2019 |
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A mysterious dance in the dead of night propels this compelling promo for Joseph Shabason's ‘I Don't Want to Be Your Love', with Jared Harris (Mad Men, The Terror) confined to the passenger seat yet intimately involved in the ensuing spectacle. Lit by car headlights, a dancer becomes a surrogate for Harris's stricken observer.
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APRE
"Come Down" |
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4 mins 07s
1 May 2019 |
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This atmospheric promo from APRE accompanies latest single 'Come Down', an initially doomy track which quickly lightens up into anthemic territory. The music offers a jangling backdrop for singer Charlie Brown's echoing vocals, which give the whole affair a hint of 80s flare. The film has a similarly dreamlike, cryptic vibe.
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BTS
"Boy With Luv (feat. Halsey)" |
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4 mins 12s
2 May 2019 |
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The K-Pop invasion continues as boyband BTS hurtle ever further into the realm of global superstardom - making history as the first Korean act to win Best Group at the Billboard Music Awards. The group's latest promo capitalises on the 'flower boy' trend, with each pastel-soaked frame of film resembling the most skilfully filtered Instagram posts. Pop seems set to stay sugary-sweet this summer.
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Stormzy
"Vossi Bop" |
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3 mins 24s
1 May 2019 |
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Crown Prince of Grime Stormzy returns with a low-fi, skulking single which confirms he's staying true to his roots... no matter if people object to him playing Glastonbury. The accompanying promo takes place in an abandoned London - streets empty save for Stormzy and his compatriots.
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Hilton Dresden
"Cousin John" |
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4 mins 11s
1 May 2019 |
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Languorous and lovely, this promo for Hilton Dresden's 'Cousin John' is a paean to a slower world of romance, longing, and sumptuous fashion. The track itself is a play on 'Cousin Jane' by 60s band The Troggs, and luxuriates in the unhurried unfolding of a love requited. Everyone is beautiful and non-binary; the sensuality of the fabrics and the opulent settings almost tangible.
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