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David Knight - 15th Apr 2025OK Go are back doing what OK Go do... this time with the help of robots. The video for Love - the second from the band's first album in more than ten years - is a real OK Go special: an incredibly complex, brilliantly choreographed performance delivering a momentous visual experience - this time with a kaleidoscope theme being central to proceedings. And of course, it's achieved in a single take.
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David Knight - 7th Apr 2025Sophie Jones turns up the heat as Obongjayar performs toxic love song Sweet Danger, and takes turns on a mechanical bull with a range of characters who represent the sexy chaos and unpredictability of life. The scenario sees the charismatic singer sharing an abandoned hotel with a bevy of partygoers from different scenes, including greased-up female bodybuilders (very in, see the recent video for Bbyafrika).
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David Knight - 2nd Apr 2025Jeff Baynes, a significant figure in the early days of British music videos as cameraman, DoP and director, has died at the age of 75 following a long illness. Jeff was the cameraman on the early music videos for Madness at the end of the 1970s and early 80s, from their 1979 hit Baggy Trousers onwards, and their feature film Take It Or Leave It (1981), all directed by Stiff Records label boss Dave Robinson.
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David Knight - 31st Mar 2025HAIM return with a sumptuous video by Camille Summers Valli for the first single from the sisters' first album since 2020. It's Summers Valli's first promos since her acclaimed work for METTE in 2023 (including Mama's Eyes, winner of Video of the Year at the UKMVAs). As with those for METTE, the director employs her considerable powers here to draw the viewer into a powerful and intimate experience with the band's lead singer Alana Haim.
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David Knight - 27th Mar 2025Viagra Boys' Sebastian Murphy has a new girlfriend, in Eoin Glaister's video for Bog Body. Glaister tells the story of the song basically, and as he happily admits, that song plays to his particularly strenghts as a director. David Knight - 27th Mar 2025
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1 month ago | 
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David Knight - 25th Mar 2025According to the famous African proverb, it takes a village to raise a child - and the remarkable and emotional video for Kae Tempest's Statue In The Square could be seen as an embodiment of that idea. Kae's own village is all there with him in front of the camera lens. And also behind it.
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David Knight - 12th Mar 2025Broken Antenna return to East London, with a vivid celebration of community and culture for drum & bass mainstay Turno, featuring grime scene heavyweights D Double E and Morrisson and up-and-coming singer Catching Cairo. Following their UKMVA-nominated video for Joe Armon-Jones and Hak Baker's Wrong Side Of Town, the directing duo - Myles McAullife and Gustav Newby - create a whirlwind portrait of urban life for Brick Lane, Turno's high-energy ode to East London.
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David Knight - 3rd Mar 2025Cody Critcheloe reunites with Perfume Genius for a video just as extraordinary as the recent one for It's A Mirror. And this time, there's a sensational contribution by the song's featured artist Aldous Harding. As before, Critcheloe's video for No Front Teeth operates under its own dreamlike logic, unfolding in in scenes unhinged from conventional narrative structure, embracing intense experiences of fear and desire as if drawn from the subconscious.
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David Knight - 26th Feb 2025Dominican/Brazilian artist Jarina De Marco and her pal Mediopicky embrace the power of the humble potato in the highly entertaining video directed by US directing duo MAMA. In the video for Pelame La Papa, we're thrust into a crowded factory floor, where the purpose of the potato-based activity on the production line looks rather shady. And that's confirmed when one of the hamzad-suited factory workers takes a lick of a partly peeled spud.
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2 months ago | 
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David Knight - 20th Feb 2025italian directing team LateMilk make a great debut British music video for AJ Tracey and Jorja Smith's collaboration on the song Crush. The track is 'rhythm and grime' - where the duo play heartsick lovers over a sample of Wretch 32’s 2006 tune Used To Be, itself featuring a Brandy sample from Love Wouldn’t Count Me Out - dripping with '00s nostalgia.
