Do What You Want
OK GO
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Previously, OK Go proved their aptitude with treadmills. Here, every imaginable cartwheel and leap is attempted and achieved, all in a wallpapered world of brilliant vermilion. Clothing, guitars, everything in the video conforms to the background pattern. As for the song, it’s a rocking number that offers fewer surprises than the visuals but recalls the Stax Volt leanings of late Jam or early Style Council.
The Knife
GRIZZLY BEAR
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In this video exploring the relationship between man and the Earth, animation is incorporated to depict a wounded geologist who is cured by the crystals of a desert deity and returns to the sandy womb of an alluvial plain. The members of Grizzly Bear have cameos as the assistants behind a contraption producing drops of blood, sinking into the sediment as they sing, “Can’t you feel the knife?”
