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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Grimes
‘Flesh without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream’
Dir: Grimes
Grimes returns her first glimpse of the world of Art Angels, and it looks a lot like Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette with heavy doses of anime and androgyny, and a neon spell broken by a bloody climax.
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Kendrick Lamar
‘These Walls’
Dir: Colin Tilley and The Little Homies
An inmate flashes back on the night that landed him behind bars in the ‘These Walls’ video, following a house party full of depravity — in all its seedy neon grandeur — in a long one-shot, before things break down and get weird — “Terry Crews at a talent show hitting the quan” weird.
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Joanna Newsom
‘Divers’
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
Joanna Newsom sings the title track of her excellent new album like a phantom in the clouds, in an artsier offering than her last collaboration with PT Anderson.
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Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn Sahm Buhl
‘Fuck The Ghetto / Think About Outer Space’
Dir: Georgia
Hieroglyphic Being and company visualize the terrestrial-extraterrestrial divide explored in ‘Fuck The Ghetto / Think About Outer Space’ in dizzying, disorientating fashion, violently editing between queasy aerial shots of the urban landscape and our protagonist’s solitary journey.
Lawrence Rothman
‘Oz Vs. Eden’
Dir: Floria Sigismondi
Lost in the controversy over Charli XCX’s (supposed to be uncredited) vocals on ‘Oz Vs. Eden’ is the Halloween-ready video that looks like peak Marilyn Manson, or at least Christmas in the American Horror Story house.
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Pictureplane
‘Technomancer’
Dir: Travis Egedy
Pictureplane makes his way through a New York City “controlled and ravaged by blood sucking freaks” and ends his night at a recreation of the Blood Rave from Blade.
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Ariana Grande
‘Focus’
Dir: Hannah Lux Davis
The pop starlet plays a grey-haired, trumpet-toting ice princess in the icy hot video for her latest Max Martin-produced smash, hitting notes of nostalgia for the TRL generation.
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Future
‘Stick Talk’
Dir: Eif Rivera
Future continues his streak of pitch-perfect Dirty Sprite 2 visuals, ditching the opulence of ‘Where Ya At’ for the trap-level menace of ‘Stick Talk’, draping himself in the Haitian flag and hanging with the Freeband Gang.
