Single Revue: Elis Noa – Motto

Here’s a band that knows exactly which visual parallels to use to describe their sound: golden hour lighting, standing in bodies of glistening water fully clothed, weeds in the wind, bokeh effects, reverse-motion dancing in nature, and of course, the inevitable woods shots. Because what would an upcoming band’s video be without scenes shot in the woods? It’s a rite of passage.

Elis Noa are playing at B72 on 21 March.

Naked Cameo are doing music videos in the woods, but we still love themIf you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know we have a love/hate relationship with music videos shot in the woods. There really are so so many. At one point, we even vowed...

Naked Cameo are doing music videos in the woods, but we still love them

If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you know we have a love/hate relationship with music videos shot in the woods. There really are so so many. At one point, we even vowed to never feature a single woodsy video ever again. But oh well, we’ll always make an exception for an exceptional band. 

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Identikit – Everything

We’ve got to admit that our musical awareness radius usually doesn’t extend to Tyrol, which is a shame. Good thing Identikit sent us their first ever music video to Everything a few months ago. Bad thing it got lost in our inbox until today.

Because this is truly solid. You know, apart from the inescapable forest scene (really? How many more forest scenes do we have to take??).

Pharaohs And Kings - Twisted Eyes

Can everyone please FINALLY stop with the forest videos? One day we’re going to make our threat come true and no longer post music videos with more than three trees in it. This idea has stopped being creative in 2011 and the best forest video has already been made.

Forest videos, incidentally, is only one thing this band from Carinthia has in common with the similarly sounding Upper Austrians Catastrophe & Cure (band name- as well as music-wise). The latter also received massive FM4 support with no label backing them, something which is also happening to Pharaohs and Kings at the moment.

Pharaohs And Kings are playing at WannaPlayVienna on 8 July at B72 in Vienna (free entry).

Scarlet Chives - The Timber Will Fall
from This Is Protection, out on 21 March on Siluh Records

This video has everything*: a forest, a mask (so far nothing the forest video that started it all, Francis International Airport's Monsters, does not also have), dead animals, blood, naked bodies, sexual innuendo, power relations, chains, boobs, so many boobs, and also breastmilk? I… erm… wow.

*subtle Stefon pun

Country: Denmark