Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Ralph Pelleymounter who is 1/5 of new folk/rock band To Kill A King. As well as reading the below interview Yin & Yang has an exclusive first showing of the 3rd video to be taken from the bands ‘My Crooked Saint’ EP, ‘ Family’. The video follows on from the previous two singles ‘Bloody Shirt’ and ‘We Used To Protest/Gamble’ which you can also see here. The videos are a must watch from 1st to 3rd as they make up for a mini series which is to be concluded with the fourth video for ‘Wrecking Crew’ coming soon.
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Less than a day after unveiling visuals to “Thinking Bout Ya”, OFWGKTA crooner Frank Ocean has treated his rapidly growing avid fans with the video for “Swim Good”, one of the biggest cuts on his phenomenal free EP, nostagia:ULTRA. Not quite as abstract as yesterday’s release, the visuals to “Swim Good” are quite similar to what my mind conjures when I hear the cut. Of course, with director Nabil Elderkin (who shot “Novacane”) behind the camera, the video takes some interesting turns and features some brilliant camera work. Take a look now.
Yesterday Frank Ocean released the High 5 Collective directed visuals to his popular tune ‘Thinkin’ Bout Ya’. I must say that the video is totally unexpected and does not follow any sort of storyline or have any traits that one would assume it would have. Thinking outside of the box and not just in the club with scantly clad girls everywhere the video instead is refreshingly different, though does take a little while to adjust to upon first viewing as it is so different from what you would expect. I have been playing Mike Hough‘s version of this song in my car non stop for the past couple of weeks and can say I love it. If you haven’t heard the cover then listen to it here, otherwise click read on to see the video.
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A couple of months ago a Youtube video accompanied by simple on-screen lyrics was released for Lloyd’s single “Dedication To My Ex” from his new album, King of Hearts. The track was an ode to Motown style R&B and featured Lil Wayne and Andre 3000. Guaranteed hit you’d assume? But in the same way that Cee-Lo Green’s “Fuck You” was way too explicit for the MTV daytime audience, music execs replaced some of the rude words on the “Dedication To My Ex” track in a hope for mainstream success. And thus, what could have been fun, risky visuals narrating Lloyd swooning about missing his unfaithful girlfriend’s sex – starring two of the best MC’s of our time…is instead a censored, extremely-standard music video set in a garage featuring Wayne Brady attempting to pass off as a non-dreadlocked/tattooed Lil Wayne, and a cat miming along to Andre 3000′s verse. Weird. Well at least Lloyd cut off his hair. Peep the video after the jump.
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Eargasms will be up TOMORROW so apologies on the delay. Till then I want you to listen and watch the visuals to up and coming London duo MLK n CRL‘s latest song ‘Teleportin‘. I’m not quite sure what genre this song falls under – it has a bit of dubstep, rap plus a catchy hook. The video directed by the talented Saul Abraham of Souleymane Films follows the journeys of a boy and a girl in search of love – you’d expect it to be the typical cheesy video from that description but its quite the opposite. I think it’s quite psychedelic. I tweeted one half of the duo to get his description of the song – ‘why fly when you can teleport” — two paths travelled by a kindred spirit, get lost in a the unmentioned spiritual realm of love’. Sums it up perfectly, now jump after the cut to watch it.
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J.Cole today dropped the visuals for his self-produced, debut single “Work Out” from the long-awaited album “Cole World: The Sideline Story” due for release on September 27. The Paula Abdul/Kanye West sampling track pays homage to J.Cole’s basketball roots and features enough eye-candy for Kanye himself to even be jealous of. Check out the visuals after the jump.
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Jesse Boykins III teams up with Director, friend and fellow creative Dr Woo to put together the collection of visuals from JB3′s global tour-travels for his latest video, “Back Home”. Airy, beautiful, nostalgia, fun and romance are words I’d use to describe this latest video – which, if you are new to the sounds of Jesse Boykins – are exactly how I’d describe his music too! Check out the video on the other side!
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