Pond - Giant Tortoise

Pond’s official video for single Giant Tortoise captures footage of the band spazzing out at SXSW 2012 juxtaposed with slow motion liquid splashes, explosions, martial arts, dancing, babes, sports highlights, immolation, and pretty much anything else you could imagine tripping youths YouTubing while peaking.

Sinkane - Warm Spell

Sinkane is the latest project of Ahmed Gallab, who is better know for his previous work with of Montreal and his current work with Yeasayer. ‘Warm Spell’ is the latest single to come from Sinkane’s debut LP Mars and he’s also just released a beautifully rendered, Philip Di Fiore directed music video.

Bibio - À Tout À L’Heure

The British producer Bibio has said that he recorded “À Tout À L’Heure,” the hazily psychedelic first single from his new album Silver Wilkinson, while he was outside in his yard on a sunny day, using things like garden shears and watering cans as instruments. And now he’s linked up with Russell Weekes to co-direct the song’s video himself, using ancient 8mm stock footage and slow-rotating silhouettes to make a pleasantly druggy visual, something that looks like it could’ve been projected on a wall at a late-’60s nightclub.

The Flaming Lips - You Lust

“You Lust” is the pounding 13-minute drone-groove at the heart of the Flaming Lips new album The Terror, and its video cuts the song down to a more manageable four minutes. It does not, however, do anything else to make the song more digestible. In the clip, we see a naked man and a naked woman lying in the middle of a room, their body parts hooked up to freaky electrodes, while three more naked women do experiments on them and frogs and monkeys crawl around them. You know, normal stuff. Please be advised that the nudity is an extra-visceral type of nudity.

David Bowie - The Next Day

For his third video from The Next Day, David Bowie is keeping things cinematic and strange. Obviously. Here once more is Floria Sigismundi, again directing A-list movie stars (last time Tilda Swinton, this time Marion Cotillard and Gary Oldman) in a typical tale of the church, a brothel, and a stigmata-afflicted prostitute. It’s an idea “written and conceived” by David Himself.

Vitalic - Fade Away

Directed by Romain Chassaing (responsible for Pony Pony Run Run and Housse The Racket music videos), the official video for the latest single Fade Away could easily pass as a cinematic short film, a fact Vimeo promptly honored by including it in their “Staff Picks” playlist.

James Blake - Overgrown

Nabil Elderkin, the filmmaking mastermind behind videos for everyone from Antony to Kanye, has shot a beautiful video for James Blake’s “Overgrown” from the album of the same name. It’s a characteristically surreal nighttime trek through forests and hills haunted with spirits (and a very meditative James Blake).

Iron & Wine - Joy

According to director Hayley Morris, she made her video for “Joy,” a delicate song from Iron And Wine’s new album Ghost On Ghost, by “projecting hand-painted water color animations into stop-motion landscapes.” This sounds like an incredible amount of work! And in so doing, she created a sense of fragile and otherworldly beauty that she couldn’t have achieved if she hadn’t hand-made the whole thing.

Anvil FX - Psych Mood

Lots of female nudity in this one. Directed by Dácio Pinheiro and Denis Giacobelis.

Frades & Sika - Autour D’un Verre

A retro Bowling back in the seventies, a pretty girl, a nerd, an italian lover, and a jerk. Aside from The Big Lebowski, has bowling ever looked as cool as it does in this French rap video directed by Oliver Dressen aka Hero?