"Leave A Trace" feels like a smoky/sultry/steamy photo shoot turned into a music video, which makes sense since it's directred by London photo/film duo Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, who are masters at exactly that.
Raleigh Ritchie is reeling — if not going downright mad — from the bloodsport of love in this quirky video that looks the setup for an even more extreme reaction to a failed relationship.
PS: Yes, Game Of Thrones fans; Raleigh Ritchie is indeed your unsullied hero, Grey Worm.
Here we are, two weeks later from the action seen in "Holding On" with director Ryan Hope continuing the sci-fi storyline that looks to bridge all the videos from new Disclosure album Caracal. An equally important milepost is that we're nearly three years on from "Latch," the Sam Smith and Disclosure collaboration that played a monumental role in both artists rocketing to fame. This reunion is sexy and slinky, as is the video, which doesn't get overly concerned with advancing the plot and choosing to focus on Smith in the midst of a dancefloor that approaches the vibe and scale of the Matrix Zion Dance Party.
The first chapter of Disclosure's Caracal saga (and sophomore album) begins proper after the recent teaser with our introduction to a woman who appears to have Sixth Sense powers - combine this with some Mexican voodoo in a land where it appears, as Zach de la Rocha once rapped, "who controls the past now controls the future" (oh, and some Orwell guy, too).
The Lawrence brothers say that every song on the album may get a video that connects all of them. In fact, "Holding On" is part one of four videos making up a short film from director Ryan Hope. Needless to say, I think all of us here at VS are intrigued with what lies ahead.
Disclosure will go wide-screen on new album Caracal, teaming with director Ryan Hope for an album trailer looks like a futuristic action-adventure-art film and is hopefully just a tease of what's to come...
Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor is having a hard time dealing with his recent relationship break-up. Or, he's slipped into a time-space vortex. Or, he's losing his mind. Or maybe all of those things...
RSA Films are pleased to announce the signing of Swedish director Åsa Riton.
Åsa has stayed true to her ethic of merging art and film, having shot for Danish fashion icon Henrik Vibskov, electro pioneers The Knife, electronic giant Phillips, and visionary creative David Lynch. Her strong visual concepts, combined with playful musicality set Åsa aside as a visually engaging and exciting director.
The charge is that — wait for it it — some of the weddings in the video were set-ups, and not the surprise drop-ins as presented and that one of the brides in question might be America's Next Top Model contestant Raina Hein.
So, if music videos were the last place where you had a vestige of hope — I assume you gave up on the sanctity of marriage long ago — then you might be in for a letdown, even though it'd only be fair to note that Adam Levine has stated in interviews that the Grooms were in on the surprise, with each doing what they needed to do to facilitate the guest performances.
UPDATE: The floodgates are now open with lots of actors being recognized and/or admitting that they participated in staged marriages. Of course, anyone who's ever seen a typical wedding video can tell you the different between shooting video and shooting a music video. And "Sugar" is surely lit and blocked like a music video. (That said, is anyone really worked up about this? Will it crush you when I tell you that most artists don't live in the mansions you see in their videos, or that they're not surrounded by booty 24/7?)
Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine has clearly studied the rules of wedding crashers — and the credits, getting Wedding Crashers director David Dobkin on-board to lead the band through a series of gonzo wedding drop-ins across LA. It's a fun gambit, even if the goal is just to deliver a wedding band surprise and not to pick up drunk bridesmaids.
This Theophilus London video is deceptively simple, especially if if you tune out before the backdrop goes dark and some wild formations start taking place. But, tuning out would be very unwise, since this first blast off new album Vibes is a monster, bearing the impression of executive producer Kanye West and a whole lot of natural style.
