The rigors of travel get perilous for our protagonist [hope he gets hazard pay] in the latest from Tame Impala, which may make you think twice about your next plane ride...
Sam Pilling, director: " wanted the visuals to juxtapose the song so decided to set the video at night and to film it in quite a raw, off the cuff way, rather than a more obvious, smooth approach. Dornik wanted the video to be about having fun, good vibes and a sense of release so we constructed a story that had those upbeat elements but also had a slightly darker undertone too.
The music video fantasy falls apart on purpose in this revealing clip where Josef Salvat and director Ollie Wolf point out and send-up all the stock elements you'd usually see in somethingmlike this.
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...
Welcome to the future, where everything is tracked and recorded and totally controlled. And your daily dose gets higher and higher, leading to the key question: Is the man in this video OD'ing on those control pills, or is there no amount of medication to keep a rational person from noticing that the world is breaking down.
Off goes the hair, on goes the bra and so Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield's gender-swap journey begins...
A honky tonk crowd greets him with uneasy stares that, of course, leads to outight brutality. But, there's an escape hatch of music, even if it's just in his mind... Soaring choreography transports him from the on-the-floor pummeling to a place where his tormentors are nothing more that a dance troupe ushering him to heaven, which in this case is a catharctic climax on-stage with Arcade Fire.
Hopefully he's also up there rocking with Hedwig...
Former Olympic Swimmer Peter Prijdekker dedicates his appearance in this video to his Mom , first coach Andre, to all loved & lost and all swimmers who never give up.
It climaxes in violence, yet ends with a tender moment in this video for How To Destroy Angels. As Trent Reznor and Mariqueen Maandig ponder when the world will return to its primal ways, directing team Shynola show exactly what it might like through the glowing eyes of aboriginal tribespeople who know that life feeds on life.
