by relio
►This video, for one of the best tracks on Kurt Vile’s Childish Prodigy, is all fast cuts, overlapped footage, live shots, and Kurt singing under a bridge. The imagery is unspecific but the psychedelic effect it has fits the song like a glove. Check out some more of our favorite vids after the jump..
►This video for “You Came Out” by We Have Band is a made up of 4,816 still images. Produced by London animator David Wilson, the vid features hand drawings on the band members’ faces.
►Ramona Falls is Brent Knopf of the brilliant Menomena. This video for “I Say Fever” features some of the niftiest animation and most startling imagery we’ve seen in a while. Isn’t this what the Music Video art form is for?
►And this week’s throwback vid of the week is “Window Licker” by Aphex Twin. A collaboration with esteemed director Chris Cunningham, the video is a jab at the culture of excess that seems to envelope the lives of artists in the music world. With approaches that seem to run parallel, the two present a unique perspective, setting a grotesque image of modern lifestyle; of lust and vanity, against the intricate and many times (most of the time) serene rhythms and melodies of Richard D. James’ music and of Cunningham’s dark, grainy cinematography. A match made in a twisted heaven.
