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VIDEO: Zuster - Do U Want Me

Watch the Owens sisters Andie and Maggie, aka Zuster, light up the bleak surroundings with their beautiful harmonies. “Do U Want Me” is an electro pop song with a sudden soaring, meandering chorus, which gives the track a nice edge. I’m curious what the two are up to next.

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VIDEO: Lilly Wolf - Terrible Mistake

Hindsight is 20/20. In that light, New York duo Lilly Wolf map out a list of  dreadful mistakes, showing what events led to them. The track “Terrible Mistake” is from their 2015 album “Deleted Scenes” (Apple Music | Spotify), for which the video is also a good metaphor: some of

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VIDEO: Oyinda - Never Enough

“Watch me move like I’m up on a big screen” Oyinda sings in her new single “Never Enough”. Take the advice and blow up this video on the biggest screen you can play YouTube videos on – you won’t regret it.

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VIDEO: Shadow Monster - Out Of My Mind

Shadow Monster is the stage name of Gillian Visco, a singer/songwriter from New York, who is also an actor in theater and film, an experience she used in the new video for “Out of my Mind”. There is a theater company behaving strangely, a cemetery (Green-Wood?) and tears are

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VIDEO: Francine Thirteen - Lady Mary, The Lord and Spark

Since FKA twigs’ brand of audiovisual experimentation has moved closer to the mainstream, there is room for something new: Francine Thirteen tackles the topic of female archetypes in a new EP due later this year. The video “Lady Mary, The Lord and Spark” is full of symbolism and feels more

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VIDEO: The Dose - Cold Hands

Compelling visuals, interesting narrative with a touch of suspense even, directed with a decisive artistic vision, band mates who don’t need to hide (and luckily they don’t!) and on top of it all a crazy catchy indie-rock song: “Cold Hands”, the first video by the Los Angeles rock

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VIDEO: FMLYBND - Space & Time

They have a picture of the Empire State in the apartment, but other than that “Space & Time” by California band FMLYBND has a strong West-Coast-y feeling to it. They obviously have a lot of fun with what they doing and that shines through in their music. Us on the

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VIDEO: Eliot Sumner - Half Way To Hell

Eliot Sumner lost a game of dice with the devil in this video, which brings her at least “Halfway to Hell”, where she already finds a lot of fire around. The power rock/pop mix of her music may be a little out of fashion, but she pretty much owns

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VIDEO: Rina Sawayama - Where You Are?

Her T-Shirt says “Disco Sucks” but that is obviously irony in Rina Sawayama’s video for “Where Are U”, inspired by the Michael Jackson hit “I Wanna Be Where You Are”. She also plays guitar and handles her social media on two laptops and an iPhone from her bedroom. Or

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VIDEO: Monogem - Gone

This is a simply beautiful video: Monogem’s “Gone” shows two gorgeous women dancing through a sun-filled loft apartment. “I’m gone ‘cause I can do better” sings Jen Hirsh and it is up to you to make up the story here.

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VIDEO: Brave Shores - Surfs Up

When Stephanie and Jay McCarrol aka Brave Shores literally couch surf to an island they are invited to a beach party. Weird things are happening that don’t really fit to the upbeat mood of the song. Pay attention to the details!

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VIDEO: Emika - Flashback

Berlin producer Emika just finished the recording of a full symphony in Prague and is already back to release new music on her main line: dark, melodic, beat-driven synth pop. Watch the video to “Flashbacks”:

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VIDEO: Postaal - Burnin'

Postaal are a duo from Paris and that’s all we know at this point. The video is set somewhere in Southeast Asia and juxtaposes serene landscapes with city life and Thai boxing. Somehow, this summarizes nicely the chorus: “Keep the fires burnin’, baby”.

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VIDEO: Tsar B - Escalate

The video for “Escalate” by Belgian singer Tsar B was inspired by an Aladdin musical. For me it has rather a spy movie vibe where cloaked characters going after some guy for some reason. Who’s on the right or wrong side here? Who knows?

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VIDEO: Eliza Shaddad - Wars

“Wars” is the first single of UK artist Eliza Shaddad and there could not be a bleaker place for the video taking place than an empty parking garage. Eliza seems to walk around aimlessly, but she is looking for something and what she finds is not pretty.

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VIDEO: Naadia - Omut

This is a new song Omut (Омут) by the electronic Russian band Naadia (Наадя). It is a slow, atmospheric track, which fits perfectly to the visuals that fall somewhere between Games of Throne and a Fever Ray video. Check out also this live video of an older song on s

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VIDEO: Letters to Nepal - Loosing Now

Booklyn electronic duo Letters to Nepal has just released a video for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Watch Anton Fadeev hammering the beats into his Maschine controller, while Evgeniya Kusnetzova is singing, playing the theremin and doing the special effects. It is all live and recorded in one take. We

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VIDEO: Vallés - Sorrow

You might ask where is the sorrow here? French artist Vallés seems to have a good time here, following a beautiful woman through a beautiful mediterranean landscape (the Spanish island of Ibiza, maybe, Vallés home). Wait a little and you’ll see that it doesn’t work out so well.

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Video: Teischa - Couldn't Care Less

Watch Melbourne artist Teischa perform Couldn’t Care Less on a piano live in her home town. We already picked this track in August, but this stripped down version fits well into the quiet time of the year. Also, it serves as a reminder that a certain British superstar who

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Video: Monogold - Pink Lemonade

“Pink Lemonade” is a track on “Good Heavens”, Monogold’s third full-length album. This time around, Keith Kelly (vocals, guitar), Jared Apuzzo (drums) and Michael Falotico (bass, vocals) change up their usual music creation process and focus on what kind of dreamy sounds they can produce with guitar, bass and

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Video: Cross Record - High Rise

Slightly on the creepy side is this video by Cross Record, which shows a masked Emily Cross operating a chain saw. Maybe this is what you come up with when you live on a ranch like Emily and her husband do. But the music is not country-side at all, so

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Video: Vanessa Carlton - House of Seven Swords

Vanessa Carlton invites us in the video “House of Seven Swords” into her beautiful new home in Nashville. Nothing suggests the existence of seven swords in there, but it is of course meant metaphorical. In any case the song is beautiful and so is her fifth album Liberman, out now

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Video: Empress Of - Icon

This video shows off three things we love in New York: the beautiful landscape upstate, New York City and the great music that is created there, in this case by Lorely Rodriguez, aka Empress Of, who recently released her excellent debut Me. Watch and enjoy:

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Video: Jaala - Salt Shaker

Not sure what exactly is going on in this video by the Melbourne four-piece Jaala – it’s more like a weird dream which you wake up from and don’t know what it meant. For sure I love the stuffed animal zombie-monster and the song is outstanding once you have

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Video: Jessie Jones - Quicksilver Screen

Jessie Jones dances through the Southern Californian landscape in her video for Quicksilver Screen. The retro look fits well to the psychedelic pop song with a weird edge. I love it and will now listen to her selft titled debut album.