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Reptar have unveiled the video for their new single Sebastian directed by Deadhorse, Ben Fries and Jesse Cain – who have also created memorable promos for the likes of Kindness, Holy Ghost, and Theophilus London.

The clip combines performance footage of Reptar’s lead singer Graham Ulicny , shot from several angles simultaneously to create a surreal and cubistic effect, with living tableaus. The tableaus depict the story of Saint Sebastian, the Christian saint and martyr and earliest gay icon, who was tied to a tree and shot with arrows before ultimately being clubbed to death for his criticism of the Emperor.

Friends have unveiled the video for their new single Mind Control. Shot by Hiro Murai, the clip combines band performance, action footage, and special effects, in a rhythmic montage cut to the Paul Epworth mixed track.  The band pay reverent homage to dystopian Sci-Fi films from the ‘80s (‘They Live,’ ‘Brainstorm,’ ‘Scanners’).  But the members take themselves less seriously in various roles in an apparently sinister brainwashing plot, evocative of the song’s over-the-top lyrical message (“Hold holy only what you want/Mind control everywhere/Is trying to keep your brain washed”).

Mind Control is guaranteed to be unlike anything else you’ll watch this year.  It’s Friends’ most ambitious video to date, following the lower-budget viral sensations for their singles Friend Crush and I’m His Girl.

Burn The Fruit (Pegasus), directed by Brian Ziffer, further consolidates Seventeen Evergreen’s consistency in producing highly creative visual art around their music.

“The video is a continued exploration in real-time audiovisual cinema. A kind of ‘visual music’ where the process involves manipulating video in real time. With help from the Syphon Recorder, VDMX and other customized tools, the performance and capture of these live video mixes became analogous to the process of mixing and mastering music.” Seventeen Evergreen’s Caleb Pate.

We are delighted to announce that we will be releasing Reptar’s debut full-length album, Body Faucet, on July 2^nd.  Produced by Ben Allen (Animal Collective, Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club), Body Faucet is the follow up to the group’s heralded debut EP Oblangle Fizz Y’all, which The Sunday Times praised as, “thrillingly good, off-kilter art pop”

Building on the infectious dance-driven melodies established by the band on Oblangle Fizz Y’all, Body Faucet finds the band delving deeper into world-music influences to compliment their unique blend of danceable and electro infused pop. More information here.

“There’s a psychedelic vibe here, a sense of exploration which is mixed with the bravado, the imagination of Prince”. Clash Magazine

To celebrate the announcement we have this wonderfully surreal, moving and inventive video for album track Three Shining Suns, directed by Ross Brubeck.

Caged Animals will be releasing a wonderful 5 track EP on June 11, called This Summer EP, more details  here .  The title track of the EP ,”This Summer I’ll Make It Up To You,”, is a romantic vision of Summer imagined but never lived.  Mr CagedAnimals, Vincent Cacchione, trades in hopeful couplets, promising to take the song’s subject to an idealized West Coast “where the sun is always shining,” a terminally East Coast perspective on the California Dream.  In its final verse, the narrator of Cacchione’s fraudulent summer begins to see through his own lie, realizing this ideal impossible and resigning himself and his lover to a trip “to the Jersey shore, if nothing better works out.”

The video for the track, directed by Ace Norton, beautifully compliments the song’s message and aesthetics and is premiered today on Stereogum.