Alt-J's own Joe Newman collaborates with choreographer Darcy Wallace for this video about the deterrmimation of a long pole vaulter faced with potential impending doom.
A dystopian and disturbing epic inspired by Richard Llewellyn's novel How Green Was My Valley and Andrei Tarkovsky's film The Sacrifice. In other words, something that's just a bit more heady and challenging than most trending music videos.
Joe Newman, alt-j: "When we set out to make a video for 'Pleader', [I] sent the following one-line brief to director, Isaiah Seret: 'A Welsh mining love story; A tidal wave of earth.' What Isaiah came back with was an epic short-film inspired both by the song's source material and Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice. A family must pit their desire to have a child against the knowledge that this would destroy their community. The hypnotic, hymnal quality of the song binds the video throughout, hinting at redemption while destruction takes place." [via NPR Music]
A video designed to make you wish that Iggy Pop actually did narrate a nature series, and that every episode involved the poor creature stumbling upon something awfully human.
If "Left Hand Free" is the closest Alt-J will get to beer commercial guitar, then this video is the closest they'll get to a bro's and ho's pool party. Of course, there's a twist, with sly hints at incoming danger eventually descending into assault rifle madness.
Alt-J's "Every Other Freckle" has all sides covered: Prefer to see this imagistic clip unfurl with a woman as the main character — and see her exposed derriere? Go with this "Girl" version. More inclined to check out some man candy? Go with the "Boy" version. The videos are otherwise almost exactly the same and lightly NSFW.
Welcome to the good and dangerous times to be had in and around New Braunfels, TX. Tubing, ATVing, drinking, fireworking and running free like a pack of Bulls.
In The Pines is not a safe place to be, but there's not much safety beyond them either. In this case we have a runner on a suicide mission of sorts, unable to outrun most of the arrows hurtling his way as he makes his way to a surprising last stand.