The week in music videos brought us another cameo-filled extravangaza — this time from Madonna. Big Sean paid tribute to his late grandmother, M.I.A. scored an entire school of Chinese martial artists, and Miguel provided a good half hour of sexy time jams.
Of course, those weren’t the only new videos and songs this week. Here’s what you may have missed.
Death Cab For Cutie – “The Ghosts of Beverly Drive”
With Death Cab For Cutie as your guides, “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive” is probably the only star tour bus you’d want to go on. For a decidedly non-Hollywood band, the alt-rockers surprisingly fit right into the glitz and glamour of Beverly Hills. For what it’s worth, the choice cut from the band’s eighth studio album, Kintsugi, definitely helps. If they picked something like “Transatlanticism,” it would have been a much sadder tour.
Ratatat – “Abrasive”
From Magnifique, their first album in five long years, Ratatat is back with their new track “Abrasive.” Yes the soaring, dueling guitars are back, but the Brooklyn duo aren’t putting out their signature trippy, wavy sound. This song is a bit more driving and spry, almost akin to something you’d find on a workout playlist. It’s probably no coincidence the clip for the song features drawings of ladies doing aerobics and guys pole vaulting — you want to move when you hear it.
Ryn Weaver – “Traveling Song”
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Ryn Weaver‘s debut album, The Fool, is an open book bursting with passion and emotion. “Traveling Song,” her latest single from the record which dropped this week, is a song dedicated to loving someone who’s no longer with you. The video treatment for the track is dedicated to her late grandfather, who documented all the home videos. The combination of Ryn’s fiery, folky vocals and sweet video camera footage make for quite the powerful visual.
Toro Y Moi – “Room For 1zone”
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Despite just releasing his fourth studio album, What For?, earlier this year, synthpop star Chaz Bundick of Toro Y Moi is already back with new music. Far different from the 70s-inspired power pop found on his most recent record, “Room For 1zone” is far more busy with notes of trap, but still maintaining the chill sound he’s known for cultivating. The video accompanying “Room For 1zone” features a man busting some moves in front of the deserted Prada Marfa art installation in Marfa, Texas. It’s truly a perfect marriage.
Father John Misty – “I Love You Honeybear”
Perhaps the strangest night that two EMTs would ever have, Father John Misty‘s new video for “I Love You Honeybear,” from the album of the same name, has actors Brett Gelman and Susan Traylor as lovers. But not as the sweet kind of lovers you heart swells up thinking about — more like the kind which slightly disgust you with their weird and smothering kind of affection. This video is like the car wreck of love affairs where you just can’t turn away, but you deeply want to.
Mac Demarco “Another One”
For someone so laid back, Mac Demarco really loves to be aggressively off-putting at times. “Another One,” the title track from Demarco’s forthcoming mini-LP, as a song is a perfect slice of jangly, lo-fi indie pop. However the video for the song starts off with an off-kilter, crudely made Michael Jackson mask doing his best impression of the King of Pop. It definitely seems like something out of Memory Hole moreso than your local record store, but that’s the delicate balance only Mac can strike.