FEIST: I Feel It All

Everyone love Feist right now. Just open up your heart and let her sing and dance her way intp the warm cockles of your heart. She bounces into poptastic indie form with this happy bopper of a ditty and I just love it. It's everything you could want from a pop song, with the idiosyncratic charm that only a artist of original talent can properly assemble. Perhaps its the one too many glasses of red wine I've imbibed, but I'm a bit drunk of Leslie Feist. Watch the music video (qt).

LIARS: Plaster Casts Of Evertything

The calmer ethereal tones of Drums Not Dead are, for lack of better words, dead. The new album by the New York based art rockers returns to the pulsing punk energy and urgency of their original posture. The forth album, the self titled Liars, churns a really shit storm and this first video, direct by Patrick Daughters, is a fitting visualization. Superimposed projection images dopplegange their original subjects as a barreling car motors down a dark desert highways. Surreal, Lynch-esque, terrifying and mesmerizing all in one intense experience. Watch the music video (qt).

FEIST: My Moon, My Man

Not too long ago I posted the 'GAP ad' reminiscent clip for Feist's single 1234. This video is actually the first single from her excellent third full length release, The Reminder, so I got the order a little mixed up. Directed by Patrick Daughters, it also features some quirky choreography but thus time involving airport conveyor belt sidewalks and a passenger possessing rhythm. Matched with an upbeat pop tempo and a piano riff with just a subtle touch of glam, this one's already a cliptip favourite. Watch the music video (qt).

BECK: Nausea

There's very little to say about Beck that hasn't been said already. He's just cool. This video is no exception. Sure its a lot slicker than the average (it was directed by Patrick Daughters) and features his long strawberry-blond locks is various stages of wind effect, but the single itself can speak for itself. Sure its hip-vague lyrics espouse disgust in various forms of conservatism, religion and senseless wandering through deserts (Middle East war perhaps?), but hell, it's got a great beat and totally funky bridge to rock your bod to. Watch the music video (qt).

ALBERT HAMMOND JR.: 101

What's a Stroke to do? So you've got a simmering talent that's confounded with a Ross Geller demeanor and a Sideshow Bob hairstyle. So your fancy Swiss education reflexes you to call bullshit when hiptards try to drop pretense. So you band mate is son of some international jail-bait / modeling agency. Does that mean you let the world hold you back? Hell no. And that's exactly what young Albert Hammond, Jr. said to his naysayers. Signed to completely obscure and critically unmonitored record label, Rough Trade, he releases a bitch of a pop album gem, with cartoon allusions, nursery rhyme allegories and some rather tuneful songs to the cuddly hipster set. Patrick Daughters directs the video of this young New Yorker's musical resurrection post a tragic and fatal bicycling accident. For cycling in a vintage light grey three piece suit with white patent leather shoes, is it any wonder why someone ran him off the road leaving him a doe-eyed , decomposing zombie? Watch the music video (qt).

FEIST: 1234

Did you know this is the second video from the lovely Leslie Feist's third long player? Yes, it's album release number three, and if you own here very first album, Monarch, you are one lucky bastard (send me a copy, 'kay?) Feist plays her alluring sultry self in this sparkly, colourful choreographed number, described by many as a Gap ad in training. Not officially, but considering her electroclash BFF Peaches featured a track in a recent Gap ad, who really knows? The Reminder, the album is out soon. Can't wait for what's guaranteed to be excellent summer listening. Directed by Patrick Daughters, it is irresistible to not fall in love with Feist's easy breezy coolness. Watch the music video (qt).

THE SHINS: Phantom Limb

Sub Pop's indie darlings The Shins delight with a brand new and brilliant single from the new album Wincing The Night Away. Borrowing a theatrical page from Wes Anderson's Rushmore and mixing child leader metaphors and Joan of Arc references, the video captures front man James Russell Mercer voice in his joyous swirling glory. Directed by Patrick Daughters. Watch the music video (qt).

YEAH YEAH YEAHS: Turn Into

The New York art-rock trio are too freaking cool for school. This simple, elegant video matches so bloody well with this single, I nearly licked the screen. Patrick Daughters directs and continues to build an A-list roster of great music videos. In the meantime, the dazzling lead singer Karen O. breaks up with Spike Jonze and wills the paparazzi away. Watch the video (qt).