DJ Shadow
Scale It Back
No surprise that DJ Shadow has a great video. What starts off as some guy talking about his pneumonic devices when it comes to memory becomes literal and you see what his train of thought. Featuring Chun-Li. Then he explains it! Awesome.

Man Man
Pirahnas Club
After a minute of no music and some dumb kid doing nothing, we’re treated to seeing a scene from Cry Baby. Hot damn, this little kid and his friends are gonna be drapes! How awesome is that? Stand By Me meets rockabilly? Then all the kids steal beers? Nice touch.

Rammstein
Mein Land
Rammstein take on The Beach Boys. The only other band that could possibly do such a good job as this is Weezer. Everything is done right from the cheesy smiles to the surfin’ font, all touched off with some of the twist for good measure. Until it gets utterly metal at night.

Black Lips
Raw Meat
I don’t like that I like Black Lips. I bet they’re dicks in real life. So when a video comes out that has them acting like corrupt, bratty, reckless dickhead cops that features pretty girls, I feel like it’s a really good analogy for my feelings about them in some way.

Los Campesinos!
Hello Sadness
Another case of low-budget quirk mixed with quick shots and props that tell no story, but people might decide to be wankers and say that “you’re not reading into it”. Fortunately this doesn’t look too into itself and ends up just being shots of stupid nothingness. In a good way.

Fok Julle Naaiers
Die Antwoord
Where do you stand on these guys? They’re so hardcore. They cover themselves in tarantulas and scorpions and they carry guns and they half take the piss and they would fuck me up for hassling them. It’s so post-meme-art.

Wu Lyf
We Bros
Imagine if a Sigur Rós video (something with kids running to a harmonic, angelic rising beat) made whoopee with a Nike ad (something with heaps of people running, striving to be athletic) and then throw in some symbolism of escaping. Except the symbolism is literal. Surprisingly, it’s not bad.

The Rapture
Sail Away
There are enough nice touches in this to keep it somewhat entertaining. Giant sea shell instruments, weird mirror-wave effects, hovering trash, etc. But fixed close up shots of repetition and too many quick cuts Jack a dull boy.

The Rapture - Sail Away (short version) from DFA Records on Vimeo.