{"id":1134893,"date":"2021-10-29T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1134893"},"modified":"2021-10-29T13:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T10:26:01","slug":"the-6-best-music-videos-of-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1134893","title":{"rendered":"The 6 Best Music Videos of October 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 6 Best Music Videos of October 2021<\/h1>\n
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Featuring Amin\u00e9\u2019s enormous labradoodle, BADBADNOTGOOD\u2019s ingenious optical illusions, and Mitski\u2019s show-stopping dance routine.<\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Eric Torres<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Clockwise from top left: Amin\u00e9\u2019s \u201cCharmander,\u201d Mitski\u2019s \u201cWorking for the Knife,\u201d Penelope Trappes\u2019 \u201cAwkward Matriarch,\u201d and Cate Le Bon\u2019s \u201cRunning Away.\u201d Graphic by Maddy Price.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Each month<\/em>, we run down the most memorable clips and celebrate artists who are breaking ground with their visuals.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. Penelope Trappes: \u201cAwkward Matriarch\u201d<\/h2>\n
Director: Agnes Haus<\/div>\n
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Just in time for Halloween, this disquieting fairytale stars London composer Penelope Trappes and her real-life daughter Chloe as two witches wandering a haunted shoreline. The backdrop is stormy and old-fangled, all lensed in sweeping, wide frames that suggest a millennia of ancient rituals. Wearing lofty cone-shaped hats and billowing outfits that Penelope designed herself, the pair come face to face on the stony beach, embracing one another in a transfixing vision of matrilineal heritage.<\/p>\n

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5. Amin\u00e9: \u201cCharmander\u201d<\/h2>\n
Directors: Amin\u00e9 and Jack Begert<\/div>\n
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Here is another addition to Portland rapper Amin\u00e9\u2019s run of strange and stylish music videos. Set in a leafy suburban neighborhood, Amin\u00e9 and a girlfriend go about their mundane day in time-lapsed scenes\u2014cutting vegetables for dinner, fixing the car, and, oh yeah, taking care of a 20-foot-tall labradoodle hanging out in the backyard. It\u2019s a fun, very-extra twist that eventually ropes in a pissed-off next-door neighbor (played by the cheeky comedian and actor Rickey Thompson). The image of Amin\u00e9 and his oversized pup lounging together on the grass and staring up at the sky is a bizarro picture of bliss.<\/p>\n

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4. Cate Le Bon: \u201cRunning Away\u201d<\/h2>\n
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Step into Cate Le Bon\u2019s art-rock netherworld. Filmed in the most cavernous depths of a venue called The Factory in Porth, Wales, this video follows the singer around shadowy corners. There are meta moments where the camera focuses on grainy TV sets showing close-ups of eyeballs and arms, as Le Bon and saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood traipse around in a sequence of enviable, made-to-measure looks by Kenzo. The mingling of video art, projections, and high fashion neatly distills Le Bon\u2019s eccentric style.<\/p>\n

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3. Sevdaliza: \u201cHomunculus\u201d<\/h2>\n
Directors: Sevdaliza and Willemskantine<\/div>\n
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More musicians should cast themselves as gunfighting, sci-fi action heroes like Sevdaliza does in \u201cHomunculus.\u201d In this white-knuckled short film, set to a remix of the avant-electronic artist\u2019s song \u201cOh My God,\u201d Sevdaliza is pregnant and at home in a futuristic house when she\u2019s ambushed by a team of masked men that she handily guns down. The twists only get more high-stakes and outr\u00e9 from there, involving needle injections, a helicopter airlift, and an eerie android doppelg\u00e4nger. The ultraviolent clip deserves to be seen on the biggest screen you have.<\/p>\n

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2. BADBADNOTGOOD: \u201cTimid, Intimidating\u201d<\/h2>\n
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For this excerpt from Canadian quintet BADBADNOTGOOD\u2019s visual album Talk Memory<\/em>, filmmaker Winston Hacking had people hold up cutouts of archival photos and collages in different natural settings, revealing optical illusions as the camera zooms out. It\u2019s a vivid blend of photography and nature, in which a face in profile with an open window for an ear peers out into the forest, and giant sneakers sit on a lapping shore like they were thrown aside at the front door. The practical effects and surreal installations end up looking far more convincing than any computer-generated imagery possibly could.<\/p>\n

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1. Mitski: \u201cWorking for the Knife\u201d<\/h2>\n
Director: Zia Anger<\/div>\n
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In \u201cWorking for the Knife,\u201d Mitski\u2019s first single since 2018\u2019s triumphant Be the Cowboy<\/em>, the singer-songwriter is in an uneasy state of mind\u2014about being an artist, growing older, and the unrelenting need to express herself. The song comes with a video set in a vast, empty concert hall. There are no extras, no audience, just Mitski. She\u2019s in the elevator in her Be the Cowboy<\/em> hat and a leather trench coat. She\u2019s dancing the halls. She\u2019s licking stair railings in blue silk. Her movements eventually become more erratic, culminating in a finale on the auditorium\u2019s stage where she jumps, crawls, and stomps on the ground\u2014all flailing limbs and intense thrusts, it looks like a full-body exorcism. A round of canned applause swells and then fades until it\u2019s just Mitski\u2019s fast-paced breathing and movements. Her forcefulness is cathartic, but it also reveals the intense loneliness that comes with putting your whole self out in front of an audience that\u2019s all too eager to consume every moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

Source URL: https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/the-6-best-music-videos-of-october-2021\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Columns The 6 Best Music Videos of October 2021 Featuring Amin\u00e9\u2019s enormous labradoodle, BADBADNOTGOOD\u2019s ingenious optical illusions, and Mitski\u2019s show-stopping dance routine. By Eric Torres October 29, 2021 Clockwise from top left: Amin\u00e9\u2019s \u201cCharmander,\u201d Mitski\u2019s \u201cWorking for the Knife,\u201d Penelope Trappes\u2019 \u201cAwkward Matriarch,\u201d and Cate Le Bon\u2019s \u201cRunning Away.\u201d Graphic by Maddy Price. Each month, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1134894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1134893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}