Adrian Crowley ‘The Watchful Eye Of The Stars’ Album le 30 Avril 2021

video réalisée par Niall Mc Cann et Adrian Crowley

À propos de la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway :

« Quand Adrian m’a demandé si je travaillerais sur la vidéo de Northbound Stowaway, la première chose que nous avons dû comprendre était de savoir comment nous y arriverions sans pouvoir quitter la maison. Les restrictions sont souvent une bonne chose pour faire quelque chose comme ça.

Notre capacité à filmer ou à nous rencontrer était évidemment réduite, mais les contraintes peuvent être parfois votre ami. Adrian tournait diff...

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Alex Bleeker ‘Heaven on the Faultline’ out 5th March 2020

Mashed Potatoes

‘I want a cup of coffee mashed potatoes and juice I want peace and justice but really what’s the use.’ [1 min 32]

Alex Bleeker from Real Estate solo album out on Nightbloom Records

Yes, this is Alex dancing in the video.

“The album is very much about dealing with the anxiety of a sense of impending doom … When is the hammer going to fall? How do we go forward in the face of such anxiety and experience the complexity of life?”

Mashed Potatoes is one of those beautiful songs ilk of ...

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Alex Lahey ‘Let’s Go Out (Bedroom Version)’ – Official Lyric Video

“Let’s Go Out” has taken on a different meaning , with Alex taking a fan favourite sing along party tune into a chilled out moody iso piano ballad.

Performed By: Alex Lahey

Video Created by: Tom Nickeas

Illustrations by: Felicity Case-Mejia and Tom Nickeas

Amy Douglas ‘Cities In Dust’ Siouxsie And The Banshees – Cover

Directed by Dave Baron

For her first release on Lady Balls, Amy Douglas covered ‘Cities In Dust‘ – Siouxsie Sioux‘s Epic tale of Pompeii.

“Hot and burning in your nostrils
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Your molten bodies, blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes
And ohh, oh, your city lies in dust, my friend“

Animal Collective ‘Sand That Moves’ (Original Score)

Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler
Crestone est le premier documentaire écrit, produit et réalisé par Marnie Ellen Hertzler en partenariat avec Memory.
Hertzler a fait appel aux pionniers de la musique expérimentale, Animal Collective, pour en composer la musique originale, une grande première pour le groupe qui en dévoile des extraits dans « Sand That Moves ».
Ecoutez Crestone (Original Score) en streaming ICI et regardez Crestone ICI.

Art School Girlfriend ‘In the Middle’

Director - Tom Dream

London-based producer, multi-instrumental musician and vocalist Art School Girlfriend shares her new single ‘In The Middle’ via Fiction Records/Wolf Tone.

Torn from the pages of a diary kept by Art School Girlfriend’s Polly Mackey in 2019, her forthcoming debut album chronicles the period following her US tour in support of The Japanese House where, after returning to the UK, Mackey would end her six year relationship, leave her home of Margate and return to London. While sleeping on a ...

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BABii ‘Shadow’

DiiRECTOR - BABii & JOHNNY GODDARD

A MYSTERiiOUS SPiiRiiT DOOMED THE RUSTiiNG SCRAPYARD WiiTH LiiFE AND A BABY WAS BORN FROM THE TWiiSTED METAL OF CRUSHED MACHiiNERY AND THE BRUiiSED COLOURS OF ENGiiNE OiiL. AND SHE SOFTLY FELT THE LOSS OF A GUARDiiAN WHO WAS NEVER THERE. SHE WAS CURSED WiiTH AN ASPHALT HEART AND DiiESEL TAiiNTED BLOOD. EVERY WOUND AND SPiiLT DROPLET OF FOSSiiL OiLED BLOOD BROUGHT LiiFE TO A DEMON, WHO HAUNTED HER AND BECAME HER SHADOW FOR ALL ETERNiiTY. MANY DEMONS LATER, SHE CAME FACE TO FACE WiiTH A MYSTERi...

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Cory Hanson ‘Angeles’

Directed by: The Coconut Brothers | Animation by: Casey Hanson

New video ‘Angeles’ from the album ‘Pale Horse Rider’.

Directed by: The Coconut Brothers Animation by: Casey Hanson

Coucou ‘A Take Away Show’

Coucou 'A Take Away Show' Directed by Celidja Pornon

C’est dans le cadre du Festival de cinéma européen des Arcs 2020, que François Marry a été invité pour un Take Away Show filmé par La Blogothèque au sommet des monts enneigés. Un moment magique et poétique sans les Atlas Mountains cette fois mais au cœur des montagnes de Savoie où François a interpreté “Coucou” extrait de son 5ème album Banane Bleue.

Ela Minus ‘Acts of Rebellion’ out 23rd October 2020

megapunk Video by Dr.Me.

Ela Minus’ debut album is a collection about the personal as political and embracing the beauty of tiny acts of revolution in our everyday lives. Throughout, a sense of urgency and a call to arms is mixed with this love and appreciation for reality—because even revolutionaries need to leave space for simple human interaction.

Colombia-born/raised and Brooklyn-based musician Ela Minus debuts her new single, “megapunk”. It follows “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong”,...

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Fontaines D.C. en live pour Echoes with Jehnny Beth

produit par Walter Films

Près d’un an après la sortie de A Hero’s Death, le second album du quatuor post-punk, Jehnny Beth invite Fontaines D.C. live pour le quatrième episode d’Echo with Jehnny Beth diffusé sur Arte TV.
Après avoir reçu des artistes tel que Primal Scream, King Krule, Kim Gordon ou encore Rone, c’est au tour de ces cinq jeunes musiciens Irlandais d’y défendre cet album plus apaisé et introspectif que leur prédécesseur.
Une prestation intense et cérébrale qui nous réconforte alo...

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Fontaines D.C. perform ‘A Hero’s Death’ for The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Dir: Samuel Taylor

Filmed in London at The Auld Shillelagh pub (a band favourite) and directed by Samuel Taylor on air 28th January 2021 and 29th January 2021 on Sky Comedy at 10:50pm GMT.

FRANCE – Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains “Holly Golightly”

 « Holly Golightly » est le second single extrait de Banane Bleue (26/02/21)

Ce single de Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains porte le nom du personnage de Truman Capote dans Breakfast At Tiffany’s et aborde les thèmes clés de l’album : l’amour et les relations humaines dans des métropoles. Le visualizer qui l’accompagne présente des illustrations d’Audrey Hepburn dans le rôle d’Holly Golightly

Frànçois détaille ses intentions : « ‘Holly Golightly’ fait réf...
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Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Holly Golightly’

Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains – ‘Holly Golightly’ taken from the album ‘Banane Bleue‘. ‘Holly Golightly’ is inspired by the main character in Truman Capote novella ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. This animation re-enacts Audrey Hepburn in the movie adaptation of the same book.

 

“’Holly Golightly’ refers to the character in the Truman Capote novella, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Taken from the point of view of a writer fascinated by an endearing neighbouring frien...

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Iglooghost ‘Big Protector’

“I recently started a research institute to study a special subgenre called Lei Music. This video documents an expedition we took to a place known as the M⚮rlands. This infinite biome of rugged granite and soil surrounds the towns that practice Lei Music & very little is known about it. It is inhabited by strange organic drones knows as Celles, yet the few people who have stepped into the M⚮rlands have struggled to form any type of contact with these beings. Our expedition’s purpo...

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Iglooghost╰ ⋵ ⋰ ☼ ⑇ Eœ (Disk•Initiate)

Directed by Iglooghost. 3D Animation by Christopher Casey Denton.

This release is the first track marking a new era of Iglooghost. EΠis a departure from earlier IG works sitting in a more ethereal and stripped back realm and is his unique vision on an orchestral piece of piano and violins.

Accompanied by this release is a short film documentary. The documentary is an insight into the world of ‘Lei Music‘ , In IG’s own words “This special genre has the ability to summon strange, squeaking entities from invisible zones. These songs are transcribed t...

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JW Francis ‘Maybe’

'Maybe' director David Kong

Filled with psychedelic grooves and laid-back vocals, ‘Maybe’ is the latest single in what will be a very busy year for the New York troubadour. Recorded in Hackney Studios, the track is about the anxiety of decision making; something JW himself has been dealing with personally after quitting his job to walk the Appalachian Trial.

Accompanying the new single is also the hilarious video directed by friend and collaborator David Kong:
“The music video for Maybe is the result of us drinkin...

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Laura Groves ‘Foolish Game’

Foolish Game

I can’t hear your voice
In a long time when I hear coming around
To the heat of all we’re burning up
Can’t hear your voice
In a long time, there’s nothing to talk about
So good to facing now
You were a hobby, yeah
It’s just a hobby yeah

From the album A Private Road (Bella Union)

Lava La Rue ‘Magpie’

“The Magpie music video is London’s subcultural history timeline personified into a person walking through a tube carriage.

Showing many elements of how British Caribbean sound system culture, UK black punk, Notting Hill carnival,

2000s Grime & more, would become the blueprint of the contemporary music scene we know today.” Lava La Rue

Melissa Mary Ahern ‘Stone by Stone’

Written and co-produced by Melissa Mary Ahern. Filmed by Albert Rudnitsky. Bass, mixing and co-production by Andy Stack. Drums by Dave Tedeschi. Hammond Organ by Jeremy Baum. Electric guitar and vocals by Melissa Mary Ahern. Released on FatCat Records, March 26, 2021.

 

(Verse 1)

Stone by stone

I will rebuild

Until I am whole again

Until I am whole again

The roses you gave hang to dry

A candle burns low

Its shadow dances on the wall

As I drift far away

(Chorus 1)

The roses you gav...

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Middle Kids ‘Questions’

Director & Producer W.A.M. Bleakley @wambleakley

‘Questions’ from Middle Kids’ album ‘Today We’re The Greatest’ out 19th March 2021.

NiNE8 ‘FVR105’

Video Directed & Edited by @Jay__Green

Written by Bone Slim, LorenzoRSV, Lava La Rue Produced by Nige Additional vocals by Biig Piig

Owen Pallett ‘Paragon Of Order’

Artwork by Eric Kostiuk Williams

Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett is sharing “Paragon Of Order,” the first in a series of videos animated by Eric Kostiuk Williams. The song is from Owen’s latest album Island (Domino / Secret City), and the second video will be released on December 14th.  Owen describes the two songs as, “an extroverted coda to an introverted album.”

Owen Pallett – Tiny Desk Home Concert

Almost entirely acoustic, Island begins with 13 darkened chords, and was recorded live at ...

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Raf Rundell ‘Monsterpiece’

'Monsterpiece' dir. Luke Ramsay

Last seen a couple of years back on his debut long-player Stop Lying, Raf Rundell emerges from his Forest Hill bunker with Monsterpiece, a joyful, larger than life, good-time party anthem.

His first release for Heavenly Recordings, the former 2 Bear, renowned DJ, and all round, man-about-town, said of this first taster from his forthcoming second album:

“Time for new JAMS. Under the light of a silver moon we work on our Monsterpieces. One Blockhead, one Stepkid, a Showboy and a Culpepper. N...

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Ragz Originale ‘brush u’

Brush U Directed by Ragz Originale & CHAMU

Produced by E-Whizz and Ragz himself, “brush u” is a vibrant track which the north Londoner uses to detail a situationship. The difference in feelings between Ragz and a lady are shown in the colourful but dimly-lit visuals where the artist remains in a state of blankness while a lady continues to dance on.

Make sure you catch the video for “brush u” above while we wait for the release of Ragz Originale’s upcoming tape, WOAH.

Real Estate ‘Half a Human’

Directed by FISK

Half a Human est tiré de l’EP du même nom, une collection de six chansons créées entre deux mondes différents. Alors que leur architecture avait été construite lors des sessions d’enregistrement de The Main Thing, album sorti en 2020, les morceaux ont pris vie lorsque le chanteur/guitariste Martin Courtney, le bassiste/chanteur Alex Bleeker, le claviériste Matt Kallman et le guitariste Julian Lynch ont commencé à échanger leurs compositions à distance tout au long de la pandé...

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Sorry ‘Cigarette Packet’ b/w ‘Separate’ out 16th March 2021

'Separate' Directed and Edited by FLASHA Prod.

‘Cigarette Packet’ and ‘Separate’ were co-produced with James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya) and find the band delving back into a more experimental, cut-and-paste electronic palette harking back to their beloved home demo/ns visual mixtapes, all the while still coursing with their signature gnarled sensitivity.

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Tirzah ‘Send Me’

artwork and video for “Send Me” by Leah Walker.

“as i hold, i am held as you heal, i heal”

“Send Me” is a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time. The track explores recovery, gratitude and new beginnings, presenting a singer having discovered the type of love that is shared between a mother and a child for the first time whilst simultaneously working as an artist.

The  single is the first new material from Tirzah under her own name since 2018’s critically acclaimed albu...

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Tirzah ‘Send Me’

Pochette et vidéo de 'Send Me' réalisées par Leah Walker

L’un des talents les plus énigmatiques du Royaume-Uni dévoile “Send Me”

Démontrant une fois de plus ses talents de songwriteuse, “Send Me” est un aperçu intime d’une année où Tirzah jouait régulièrement sur scène. Le titre explore la guérison, la gratitude et les nouveaux départs, présentant une chanteuse qui a découvert l’amour partagé entre une mère et un enfant pour la première fois tout en travaillant en tant qu’artiste.

“Send Me” est la première parut...

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TRAAMS ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves (IRW)’

Video by Stewart Armstrong

Part motorik drum beats, part discordant guitars, pop melodies and hypnotic bass lines. All are present here. With a collection of three new tracks they have expanded further. Collaborating with friends and new instrumentation, each track is different from the last.

The second single to be recorded in Brighton with Theo Verney after a brief hiatus is ‘Intercontinental Radio Waves’. The track was written in Paris, whilst touring with Car Seat Headrest at the tail end of 2017. ‘Interconti...

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Villagers ‘The First Day’

Directed by Daniel Brereton
Conor O’Brien annonce le cinquième album studio de Villagers, Fever Dreams, à parâitre le 20 août chez Domino.

L’évasion est une quête nécessaire en ce moment, et Fever Dreams la poursuit avec un effet hypnotique. Il fonctionne comme tous les meilleurs disques – il vous transporte, il vous prend là où vous êtes et vous dépose ailleurs.

‘The First Day’ premier extrait de l’album est une chanson inspirée d’un voyage au légendaire festival Another Love Story dans le ...

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Wayward ‘Back to the Old Days’

London-based duo Wayward cement their reputation as purveyors of transportive sounds with their next outing via Silver Bear Recordings.

Louis Greenwood and Lawrence Hayes have gained some serious steam in recent years. They’ve co-crafted cuts for artists across a spectrum of genres. From studio sessions with Grammy-winning creative giant Skrillex, to Ninja Tune’s Park Hye Jin, and alt-indie enigma Chelou. Firmly establishing themselves as broad respected producers. Releases have come thr...

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