Welcome to FACT’s 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 Freestyles and Confessions needs.
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Mykki Blanco
C-ORE
Dir: Jude MC
Mykki Blanco and friends offer their version of Nine Inch Nails’ infamous Broken movie, splicing raucous live footage and new music with a dystopian rampage that seems them kidnap and torture a “techno-junkie” before going on a collective bad trip in the desert. Director Jude MC embedded footage from films like Under the Skin and Blade (a technique he used on Nguzungzu’s ‘Mecha’) in this nightmarish vision of Dogfood Music Group’s fucked-up world.
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Peaches feat. Kim Gordon
‘Close Up’
Dir: Vice Cooler
Peaches trains for her wrestling debut with a vaping, blasé Kim Gordon, taking on all comers. It’s a Peaches video, so expect scat, breastmilk, crossdressing and make-outs sessions before Gordon throws in the towel.
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Iron Maiden
‘Speed of Light’
Dir: Llexi Leon
While Iron Maiden on FACT might be a first, we couldn’t skip this heavy metal nostalgia-fest: a digital Eddie the Head propels himself through the matrix and through four generations of video games, from 8-bit platformers to side scrollers to arcade fighters (Finish Him!) to an Amazonian FPS.
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Rabit
‘Straps’
Dir: Lane Stewart
Rabit’s brutal, bass-blasted ‘Straps’ gets an equally violent and visceral video treatment. Tape is applied, straps are tightened, muscles flex, butterflies flutter and fists are thrown during this hypnotic ritual — make sure to stick around for the conclusion.
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Junglepussy
‘Now or Later’
Dir: Suspects NYC
The New York rapper-to-watch promises that you’ll fuck with her, either now or later, and we choose now. The natural food obsessive preps a meal and meditates while dissing GMOs and fuckboys. Kale and beets have never been this sensual.
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DJDS
‘You Don’t Have To Be Alone’
Dir: Daniel Pappas and Nick Walker
DJ Dodger Stadium deliver their latest slice of uplifting vocal house with some help from some huskies. The gorgeous, California-loving video follows our dogtagonist from the suburbs to the countryside to the beach as it searches for its tribe, echoing the song’s hypnotic lyric.
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Little Simz
‘Dead Body’
Dir: Jeremy Cole
In this black-and-white clip, London MC Little Simz spits the ominous ‘Dead Body’ behind a mask and in negative as the camera lingers on bullet holes, burning evidence and titular dead bodies as the video approaches its violent climax.
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New Order
‘Restless’
Dir: NYSU
New Order go big — if not always coherent – in ‘Restless’, a sometimes-campy, future-facing Sword In The Stone adventure intercut with VHS-styled blood rituals, leather club mosh-puts, ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ T-shirts and more.
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Jay Rock
‘90059’
Dir: PANAMÆRA & The Little Homies
SZA hops in the Monte Carlo and drives a Hannibal-masked Jay Rock through Los Angeles. A clandestine meeting with a doctor gets Jay Rock his meds, but he’s soon on the run from the cops, rapping by flare-light in a way that recalls 90s hardcore rap.
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Brooke Candy
‘Rubber Band Stacks’
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Brooke Candy returns with her latest bit of sexploitation, using the electro-pop-rap of ‘Rubber Band Stacks’ to soundtrack various set pieces, as she bounds from 70s-porn laundromat dweller to glam goddess to animal whisper and beyond.
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DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad feat. Danny Brown
‘Dubby’
Dir: Ashes57
The Teklife crew (and frequent director Ashes57) bring Spinn and Rashad’s junglist banger to life. While Danny Brown doesn’t appear, the video includes footage of the late Rashad dancing — a reminder of one of the footwork great’s many skills.
