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David Knight - 30th May 2025Alice Fassi brings a delightful comedic sensibility - both absurd and touching - to Joy Crooke’s latest, a song that dares to tackle a thorny subject: the effect of feminine beauty on other women. The subject of the song and video is the beautiful, apparently vacuous Carmen - spied upon by an awestruck Joy, disguised as a bush. Carmen (played by Amelia Swaby) is literally heading for a fall.
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David Knight - 21st May 2025Loyle Carner embarks on a dreamlike journey in the self-directed video for the lead-off track from his forthcoming hew album. Loyle (real name, Ben Carner-Loyle) is tucked up in a child-sized bed as the video for Lyin' starts. As water begins to drip onto his head, the bedsheet becomes a device to set him on his travels.
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David Knight - 19th May 2025David M Helman and Daniel Henry co-direct a wonderful video for rock band Clap Your Hand Say Yeah, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album - featuring a day in the life of the manager of an LA computer repair shop, played by Eric Rakill.
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David Knight - 12th May 2025Alex Leggatt has delivered a hugely accomplished, stirring video for the return of singer-songwriter Tom Odell. With creative direction by Phil Lee at Untold Studios, Leggatt's video for Don't Let Me Go resonates with the song's themes of vulnerability and longing as it combines stylish, abstract art direction with realism and Odell's heartfelt, deeply emotive performance.
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David Knight - 28th Apr 2025British-Ukrainian director Liakh imagines the suffocating life of an immigrant in London for Ukrainian-Canadian artist Question4Later. The video for Eastern European 2 delves into the Eastern European experience in London and its struggles in this mixed-media piece.
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David Knight - 24th Apr 2025Doechii's hit that samples Goyte's even more massive Somebody That I Used To Know, gets a brilliantly mind-bending video by James Mackel. In her comfortable suburban home, things get weird in wonderful ways, as Mackel and Doechii pay home to previous music videos and also the memorable 'bodypaint' Goyte video (by Aussie director Natasha Pinkus). And it also features Doechii's own twin sisters as Shining-like twins, overseeing all sorts of disaster in the house.
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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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2 months ago | 
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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.
