Wet Thud Video Flow, Volume Nine

Hey kids, welcome to Wet Thud Video Flow, your weekly wrap-up of the best music videos I've caught online over the past seven days.


In this installation, you'll enjoy new ones from The Kills, Foster The People, Mates Of State, and more. There's a new live clip from Björk, a not-so-new-but-reimagined track from Iron And Wine, and the latest from Modeselektor featuring vocal contributions from the lead singer of some band called Radiohead.


Mr. TheBeef himself, Shia Labeouf, directs what's really more of a short film than a video for Kid Cudi, and master video director Spike Jonze steps behind the lens again alongside new French singer Soko. (Edit: Apparently Spike only shot about a 5-second segment of the video; the rest was shot by Soko herself, using her iPhone.) 


Be sure to check back each Friday for the newest edition of Video Flow. In the meantime, enjoy the best of this week starting with the new one from Real Estate. Enjoy.

Real Estate "It's Real" (Domino)

Foster The People "Call It What You Want" (Sony)

Modeselektor featuring Thom Yorke "Shipwreck" (Monkeytown)

Björk "Thunderbolt (live)" (One Little Indian)

Cass McCombs "The Same Thing" (Domino)

The Kills "Baby Says" (Domino)

Gem Club "252" (Hardly Art)

Iron And Wine "Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version)" (Atlantic)

Soko "I Thought I Was An Alien" (Because)

Mates Of State "Sway" (Barsuk)

Kid Cudi "Maniac" (GOOD Music/Universal Motown)

Joker ft. William Cartwright "On My Mind" (4AD)

Casiokids "Det Haster!" (Polyvinyl)

High Places "Sonora" (Thrill Jockey)

Kidstreet "Never Coming Back" (Nettwerk)

Mister Heavenly "Bronx Sniper" (Sub Pop)

Gauntlet Hair "Keep Time" (Dead Oceans)

First Aid Kit "The Lion's Roar" (Wichita)

The Whendays "Untru Love II" (Cascine)

Oneohtrix Point Never "Sleep Dealer" (Software)

Wet Thud Video Flow, Volume Eight

Happy Friday, everybody. It's the end of another work week, and that means it's time to round up my favourite twenty videos from over the past seven days and assemble them here into a nice, neat little package for your viewing pleasure.


In this edition of Video Flow, you can check out new ones from The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, They Might Be Giants, and many more including not one, but two videos for R.E.M.'s soon-to-be-released farewell single. There's a very eye-catching (and probably NSFW) clip from Duck Sauce, the first solo effort from Stevie Jackson of Belle And Sebastian fame, some Johnny Depp/Ricki Lake-inspired retro nostalgia from indie favourites Man Man, and a new Cameron Crowe-directed video for Pearl Jam's 1995 single "Not For You," compiled from archival footage while producing his recent 'PJ20' documentary. All that, plus it's been about seven days since the last one, so that must mean there's another new Beyoncé video, too. (And you thought Rihanna was relentless...)


So, grab some snacks, plunk yourself down in front of your computer for the next couple of hours, and enjoy. Let's start things off with the lovely ladies of Wild Flag, who are about to encounter a baseball team made up of bears. Of course they are.

Wild Flag "Electric Band" (Merge)

Duck Sauce "Big Bad Wolf" (Fool's Gold)

The Black Keys "Lonely Boy" (Nonesuch)

Chromatics "Kill For Love" (Italians Do It Better)

Architecture In Helsinki "W.O.W." (Modular)

Jessica 6 feat. Antony Hegarty "Prisoner Of Love" (Peacefrog)

Man Man "Pirhanas Club" (Anti)

Arctic Monkeys "Evil Twin" (Domino)

Beyoncé feat. J. Cole "Party" (Columbia)

Joker feat. Jessie Ware & Freddie Gibbs "The Vision (Let Me Breathe)" (4AD)

R.E.M. "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" (Warner)

Young Galaxy "Phantoms" (Paper Bag)

Fanzine "Roman Holiday" (Fat Possum)

Memory Tapes "Offers" (Carpark)

Stevie Jackson "Feel The Morning" (self-released)

Summer Camp "Down" (Moshi Moshi)

They Might Be Giants "Marty Beller Mask" (Idlewild)

DyE "Fantasy" (Tigersushi)

Fatima Al Qadiri "Hip Hop Spa" (UNO NYC)

Pearl Jam "Not For You" (Columbia)