video – and so she thinks

Father John Misty – Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution

admin — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:20:02 +0000

In his signature enigmatic style, Father John Misty has delivered the video for Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before the Revolution, one of the stand out tunes from latest album Pure Comedy. Directed by Chris Hopewell and recorded in only three weeks, the video lends a tongue in cheek vibe to the heavy stark reality that the song describes. Grandiose, as expected, there’s also a vulnerability in tone and content. Puppets from the video will be auctioned off from August 3^rd – 13^th and the proceeds will be donated to the Environmental Defense Fund. “Father John Misty’s new video is a powerful statement — a postcard from a world we never want to visit,” said Eric Pooley, Senior Vice President at Environmental Defense Fund.

Braids – Taste

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:44:16 +0000

To celebrate the announcement of their European tour, including a data at London’s Scala on November 24th, Braids have released the video to Taste. Taken from their third album Deep In The Iris, Taste is a delicate and emotive track, messy and confusing like a therapy session played out to music. The accompanying video beautifully shot by Kevan Funk, is powerful, raw and honest, exploring the fragility of being and relationships, both with ourselves and others.

Kormac ft. Irvine Welsh – Another Screen

admin — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:33:42 +0000

Watch this video. On a screen granted. Speech Debelle, Irvine Welsh and Micah P Hinson join Kormac on new album Doorsteps. It’s almost like folk got funky or Jeff Buckley got into beats. Fantastic.

Cloud Nothings – Now Hear In

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:55:00 +0000

“I was feeling pretty good about everything so I just made stuff that made me happy.” That’s what songwriter Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings has to say about their new album Hear And Nowhere Else (out now on Wichita), and more music should come from such a happy place. Not that it’s all grins and rainbows – with the start of their world tour the band have released the grainy video of granite fuelled fuzz bomb Now Hear In, splices of grainy, manipulated, archive and shot footage that follows “a loose cyclical theme of identity and ego-birth/death” (director Jordan Blackmon of Toro Y Moi and Fork & Spoon Records fame). Deep shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgFvNKwxYQo

Coves – Beating

admin — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:23:24 +0000

Beautiful strings and sketchy beats, glitchy synths and soaring wails, soft cooing vocals and powerful assertions, vulnerable verses and acidic cutting choruses, on new song Beating Coves have taken every genre, every sound, every tactic, every noise, thrown them together without depleting the power of the individual but making every single one greater than the some of its parts. At three minutes in we are treated to what sounds like swooning woodwind, which has no right to be there, but works gloriously. Robust and rousing, it grows into a mystifying blooming crescendo, the disintegrating relationship Beck Wood sings off dissipating into an ethereal and energetic spacey tune. Bubbling with hiss, crackling synths, its full of disintegrating snarls and giddy intensity, all delivered with cinematic sleekness. Some shoegaze, C86, dreampop, disco, goth, psychedelia, everything we have come to expect from Coves since their formation in 2011, and their debut EP Cast A Shadow which was released last year is here to full effect. Just fantastic
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2mG7yoW3Ak&w=420&h=315]

Tall Tales – Tough Outside

admin — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 18:13:19 +0000

Describe as ‘neo folk’ Tall Tales certainly have elements of Mumfords et al going on, but it is more the Tall Ships and Bombay Bicycle club quiver that makes Tough Outside into the sun dappled and sweet song that it is. Gently giddy and full of poetic spice, nicely enhanced by the video, that was produced and directed by Callum Goodger, for Plymouth University Arts Degree Show 2013.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVQhCxhWudY&w=560&h=315]

Salt Cathedral – Fields

admin — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:31:51 +0000

Salt Cathedral have launched their newest video Fields, a delightful and sparkling set following a ageing and ailing man discovering glimmers of joy. Flickering with steady patterns of sonically colourful ephemera, interspersed with lush harmonic vocals, all over a cantering beat, the song is built of many layers, Dripping with mesmerising and cinematic ambience, it’s a tale of unfinished self-reinvention, and is one of many brilliant track’s from the Brooklyn based (although multi national originating) band’s debut EP.

Secret Rivals – These Are Only Obstacles

admin — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:14:24 +0000

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCZgJq4JUFs]
The new video, from album Just Fall.

New video from Beneath The Wave

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:34:47 +0000

Despite having only lived here for four years, and spent 14 months of that looking for houses elsewhere in London, and 22 months on trains and buses back from other places in the city, a certain level of pride swells up in me when I hear a band from West London. So it is with Beneath The Wave. Angular math rock softened by glistening pop melodies, this is danceable intellectual indie, that cites references as wide spanning as Igor Stravinsky to Steven Stapleton, and includes samples EP from Professor Brian Cox, Phillip Glass, Charles Manson, Duke Ellington and the film American Psycho. Second Circle is the lead track from their debut EP Ubiquitous Meter, which is available at any price you want to pay from their bandcamp.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqLCNEz5BuQ]

What our gigs might look like…

admin — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:18:37 +0000

See the montage of images from the night when The Beautiful Word, Indigo Earth and Drew Worthley played It’s All Happening’s weekly Friday night event at the King’s Head, Acton. Three acts, original music, lovely venue – see for yourself.
Photography by Vojko Jeric. Full copyright remains with the photographer.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SKK8hlZQ-A]