Music Video

Oli Burslem/Yak: Let It Loose.  2016.  Directed by Douglas Hart.  

Suicide: Frankie Teardrop: A Film by Douglas Hart.  2022.  Directed by original Jesus and Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart.  

I Break Horses: Death Engine.  2020.  This is not necessarily the greatest video; but the track itself is a dreampop masterpiece.  I have my eye on this band because they continue to demonstrate that they have an original vision, as well as the courage to follow it.

Yak: Bellyache.  2018. 

Animal Collective: We Go Back.  2022.  Production design and art direction by Winston Hacking.  

Party Dozen: The Worker.  2022.  

The Horrors: Sea Within a Sea: Directed by Douglas Hart.  2009.  From Primary Colours, NME's Album of the Year, 2009.

Yak: Victorious: 2016.  

I Break Horses: I'll Be the Death of You: 2020.  

Otoboke Beaver: I Am Not Maternal: 2022.  Video and animation by the band's guitarist, yoyoyoshie.  

Melody's Echo Chamber: I Follow You: 2012.  If you like that video, try "Some Time Alone Alone."

Sonic Youth: lncinerate:  2006.  This is the wild ripping hail of mainstream disconnect.  This is how you not-write a masterpiece. This is how you paint with music.  This is how you give a fuck and not give a fuck simultaneously.  Watch and learn. 

Kasabian: Reason Is Treason: 2004.  Directed by Scott Lyon.  Strangely, they made the video for the alternative mix (the "Jacknife Lee mix," as it's called). The album version of the track is actually better;  to hear that, click here.

The Verve: Live in London 1993:  Four songs: Star Sail, Slide Away, Virtual World, Blue.  This performance, for me, is iconic, possibly for the simple reason that I saw them exactly one month after this October 1993 London show; their performance, absolutely on fire, looked exactly like this, but it was at the Variety Arts Center, downtown LA.  The nineties was a horrific time for music; and in my view, the emergence of British indie like The Verve and Suede marked the beginning of an era.  

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Bellbottoms:  1994.

Softcore:  A short film/music promo by Norwegian film director Kristoffer Borgli.  Highly recommended.