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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Open Mike Eagle
‘Celebrity Reduction Prayer’
Dir: Ryan Calavano
Open Mike Eagle brings social media to life as texts, tweets and various digital artifacts appear on DayGlo animations.
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Ava Luna
‘Steve Polyester’
Dir: Angela Stempel
Ava Luna’s spoken word-soul jam receives a (mostly) monochromatic, narrative animation that’s somewhere between Dr. Seuss and The New Yorker.
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Killer Mike
‘Ric Flair’
Dir: Travis Nelson
Killer Mike raps at skyscraping heights, projecting himself and classic Ric Flair promos on the Los Angeles skyline. Disappointingly, in the four years since its inital release, Mike didn’t couldn’t secure a Nature Boy cameo.
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HEALTH
‘New Coke’
Dir: John Famiglietti
Resurgent noise rockers preview their new album with this strobing night out at the goth club. The shirtless behemoth is a MacGuffin: the seemingly-endless streams of vomit in slo-mo are the real danger.
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Freddie Gibbs
‘Pronto’
Dir: Nick Walker
“A simple concept, executed well” describes not only Freddie Gibbs but his video for ‘Pronto’, a stark, black-and-white clip that finds him rapping and smoking, covered in snakes and surrounded by nearly-nude video vixens.
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Ben Frost
‘Rare Decay’
Dir: Marcel Weber and Theresa Baumgartner
A live performance by Ben Frost and drummer Greg Fox is presented in blinding layers of interstellar lights.
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The Guys
‘Kush Cloud’
Dir: Julian SK and Troy G
In the video for the latest single off their forthcoming Trap Temptations, the Chicago duo get high (and lost) in the lush nature documentary they’re watching on TV.
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Angelo Badalementi feat. Kid Moxie
‘Mysteries of Love’
Dir: Amine Kouider and Sam Lieb
Badalementi remixed his Blue Velvet theme with Kid Moxie playing the role of Julee Cruise, and members of the David Lynch MA in Film program at Maharishi University turn in a Lynchian short film heavy on spooky straw marionettes, forest encounters and movie theatre meetings.
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Lord Narf feat. BootychAAAin
‘Can’t Breathe’
Dir: Mike Ellwood
Dropped as part of Awful’s 4/20 “holiday,” Lord Narf’s grim and grainy clip (directed by Awful’s go-to director Mike Ellwood) sees her and BootychAAAin fuck up Atlanta’s MARTA system.
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Speedy Ortiz
‘The Graduates’
Dir: Matthew Caron
Speedy Ortiz and friends get high on googly eyes in the video for this ’90s-facing rocker. Karaoke, the Easter Bunny, and mass hysteria ensue.
