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Bastardgeist "Coast" (Robert Ruiz de Castilla, dir.)

Coast is the second single taken from Infinite Lives, the new album by Chicago's Bastardgeist, aka Joel Midden.  The track is based around a looped orchestral stab, building into a lurching, symphonic piece with electronic rumbles, and layered washes of Midden's wavering falsetto.  The video recently premiered at the Court Métrage Short Film Corner during the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

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Low "Just Make It Stop" (Philip Harder, dir.)

Low - Just Make It Stop [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Director Philip Harder has a long history with Low — something also explored in his feature film about the band, Low Movie (How to Quit Smoking) — and that intimacy is readily apparent here with the macro shots of them in the recording studio. There's an analog naturalness at play here, even giving way to the stop-motion animated vines that gradually overtakes the occasional digital noise and the band.