Fan-made for her college project, Raquel Gomes chose Sensible Soccer as her subject alongside a very fitting track.
Battles perform Wall Street for La Blogotheque’s wonderful A Take Away series. Directed by Nat Le Scouarnec.
Peculiar but pretty amazing video for Major Lazer’s new single, Original Don. Directed by Chicago’s Kyle Frere.
Blowing up over the course of the year, Abel Tesfaye’s The Weeknd is going to be huge in 2012 but firstly closes 2011 with quite the bang. His third single, The Morning sums up everything that’s so exciting about the solo project, a blend of electro and R’n'B. Directed by High5Collective. Get ready for an LP after the turn of the year.
The Town’s Rebecca Hall takes centre stage in James Blake’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s A Case of You, a track from Blake’s 2011 EP Enough Thunder. Directed by Seb Edwards. As ever it’s a very haunting and memorable effort.
Releasing their fourth free mixtape, Ray-Ban’s new Never Hide Noise features Generationals, Nick Waterhouse, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Family Portrait and The Bees. Grab it here while it lasts, with more mixtapes to come.
Released for this year’s Record Store Day, LCD Soundsystem covered Franz Ferdinand’s Live Alone, although it’s only now that they’re put together a video for it too. Directed by Lustix, the trippy visuals and city shots work well.
While DJ Shadow’s latest album The Less You Know, The Better stutters a little from top to bottom, the video for single Scale It Back is something else altogether. Directed by Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond takes the wonderfully geeky concept and runs with it. Inspired by a memory sequence created by the amazing Ben Pridmore.
A self-initiated personal project, Andreas Wannerstedt’s video revolves around a machine that has the power of creating new, miniature universes. “What would mankind do if they possessed the power of creating new worlds? Probably use it for creating some kind of decorative snow globe.” Hugely insightful stuff, I’m sure you’d all agree.
Making their long-anticipated comeback with album Soft Universe, PNAU return in 2012 and find single Unite Us out early February on Ministry Of Sound. They’ve taken to a more serious sound, but hopefully it’ll suit them well.
