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Welcome to FACT’s newest feature: the weekly video round-up.

As we note at the end of every year, music videos have never been better. But too often, music videos — along with documentaries, live sets and interview clips — get lost in the shuffle of news and new music.

With that in mind, FACT is doing what it does for mixes, mixtapes, vinyl and more: rounding up the internet’s best videos on a weekly basis. And to remove our bias, we won’t be including our own content — you’ll have to stay tuned to FACT TV for all your Against The Clock, FACT Freestyle and Big Narstie needs.

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Young Fathers
‘Shame’
Dir: Jeremy Cole

Scottish rap iconoclasts Young Fathers caused their share of thinkpieces when they named their album White Men Are Black Men Too. Hopefully listeners will spend as much time with the ‘Shame’ video, with its visceral, obscured violence and ecstatic dance climax where the dancer (Joshua Hubbard) might already be dead.

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The Soft Moon
‘Wasting’
Dir: Y2K

The press materials for The Soft Moon’s Deeper (“inward-looking representation of a new man as he processes the relentless undercurrent of his internal battles with suicide, vulnerability, and healing”) might as well be used for the ‘Wasting’ video. Luis Vasquez’s goth nightmare has hints of suicidal violence and body swapping, hypodermic needles and asylums, sensory deprivation and overload — and it stars a weathered Robert Forster.

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Tinashe
‘All Hands On Deck’
Dir: Ben Mor

The video for Aquarius standout ‘All Hands On Deck’ almost takes the song’s title literally, bringing Tinashe and company to a shipyard. Pretty standard fare as the R&B princess writhes and dances in increasingly revealing costumes, but the shipping containers dance studios – especially when backlit – are visually striking.

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Lightning Bolt
‘The Metal East’
Dir: Lale Westvind

Noise duo Lightning Bolt explore their Fantasy Empire, and the result is something like Dr. Seuss on acid. With the primary color palette and side-scrolling, repeated background of a Saturday morning cartoon, the video follows a Mad Max race to nowhere and climaxes with a psychedelic freakout.

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Tyler, the Creator
‘Fucking Young’
Dir: Wolf Haley

Tyler’s self-directed video is pure Odd Future: musically, he’s in full-on N.E.R.D-mode, and visually, it’s all Loiter Squad stunts and skits. He watches his version of
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids as an ode to (too) young love takes a disturbing turn into stalking. The outro is all Mad Max (like Lightning Bolt’s offering) as Tyler tosses one of his titular Cherry Bombs.

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Jhené Aiko
‘Eternal Sunshine’
Dir: Jay Ahn

Aiko’s ‘Eternal Sunshine’ juxtaposes her gentle stylings with lyrics about accepting death; the video is similarly divergent, as her serene out-of-body experience is contrasted with the mundane violence of a car crash. As with much of her art, the video is dedicated to her brother Miyagi Hasani Ayo Chilombo, who died in 2012.

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Madonna
‘Ghosttown’
Dir: Jonas Åkerlund

Madonna and video legend Jonas Åkerlund outdo the Tinashe video in literal adaptations. ‘Ghosttown’ finds the queen of pop playing the role of a steampunk apocalypse survivor, battling a sniper rifle-wielding Terrence Howard (when all she has is a nine-iron) before ballroom dancing and walking into the sunset with her new nuclear family.

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Micah Freeman feat. Father
‘The Red’
Dir: Mike Ellwood

Awful’s resident soulman keeps things as grim as the rest of his crew in the video for ‘The Red’ as the dapper singer-songwriter gets set up by Father, Ethereal and a handful of girls. As always, Mike Ellwood brings a sense of narrative to the proceedings.

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Panda Bear
‘Tropic Of Cancer’
Dir: Dave Portner

Panda Bear’s ‘Tropic Of Cancer’ is an elegy for Noah Lennox’s father, turning cancer and loss into a pastoral hymn. The video, directed by Animal Collective bandmate Dave Portner/Avery Tare, uses some surreal costume play to toy with ideas of family and the violence of nature.

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Denzel Curry
‘Ice Age’
Dir: Unkleluc & Julian Yuri

The one-time Raider Klan member provides a twisted take on the ’90s pool party video with ‘Ice Age’, an AutoTuned slice of creep rap. Denzel lives large in the PJ and at the mansion, with plastic cups, hula hoops and — obviously — a pool full of bikini-clad women. The technicolor video effects and Super Soaker first-person shooter are the real eye-catchers here.

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