Teaser Videos

It seems to have come into vogue recently for musicians to make teaser videos for albums. Indeed two favorites of mine have recently done this for their respective albums that drop a day apart.

First up is LCD Sounsystem.



This Clip is the first of 3 so far announcing the new LCD Soundsystem album. It features grainy cinematography and enigmatic shots of what is known as "The Manshun". Watch the second two for more information.





This second video comes from one of music's most brilliant voices, Jamie Lidell. Lidell has for quite some time been involved in music however his sound is more elusive than just about anybody else's. For starters he started as a sort of IDM producer/laptop jockey, living in Berlin. Later, revealing the fact that he could sing he came out with Multiply, a brilliantly idiosyncratic effort in pop music. Finally 2008's Jim was his brush with pop. Indeed the tunes on Jim were the most focused and packaged yet. However those who wrote him off as trite pop act, are going to be very much mistaken with 2010's Compass. He has released the self-titled single for the album, and it is going to be excellent.

Finally this last video is a teaser to Cold War Kids' last EP that was released this past January.