This Weeks 5 Best Music Videos: Shabazz Palaces, Ought, Thurston Moore, and more

Published: October 24, 2014
This week's 5 best music videos feature a lot of disorienting, head-scratching stuff, but they all look good while they puzzle you.

Panda Bear, "Mr Noah"

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"I think a loop crafter like Noah Lennox will appreciate the repeating views of skewed domestic scenes, like we're half woken up from the extended REM sleep of"Let Forever Be"'s elaborate theatre."

Now watch this:Directing team AB/CD/CD's impressive catalogue.

Scott Walker + Sunn O))), "Brando"

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"With its frost-bitten colour palette and charged take on domestic strife and violence (Walker's lyric "A beating would do me a world of good" and the surrounding whip cracks are especially troubling here), it has the vibe of a movie you watch from Eastern Europe and don't completely understand."

Now watch this:Director Gisle Vienne's spooky theatre pieces.

Shabazz Palaces, "Motion Sickness"

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"The recent surge in theUSA's paramilitary SWAT raids on drug offendersgives "Motion Sickness" a colour oftension rarely seen in most full-length films. ButTEAN's clip for the Seattle avant-rap duo flavours its politics with the strain of vibrant Afrofuturismlong held by the band(andhip-hop in general)."

Now watch this:Get acquainted with the classic music videos of sci-fi hip-hop.

Thurston Moore, "Speak To The Wild"

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"A mother and son's forest expedition starts off slightly symbolic and ominous and gets fullWicker Manafter the boy wanders off on his own, and runs across some strange and beautiful figures and one stalker in blackface. It's an uncomfortable choice considering the mother is white and her son is biracial, but it's shot with enough flair and beauty to sway you into unpacking it further."

Now watch this: Santiago Mostyn, director "reflect[s] on race and belonging in Sweden."

Ought, "New Calm, Pt. 2"

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"The song's video takes a couple ofskeletal set pieces - a laundromat, a children's birthday party around a piata - and pulls a surprising amount of emotion from them. Perhaps it's the band's ballet practice room performance and that small, effective touch of fourth-wall breaking that helps it last well past the video'sseven minutes."

Now watch this: Our favouritePiata of the year.

This Week’s 5 Best Music Videos: Shabazz Palaces, Ought, Thurston Moore, and more… by Chart Attack | Chart Attack.

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