First up we have the new vid from The Drones for their single 'Minotaur'. The video's a little less monstrous than the title suggests - and a lot less so than their last video 'Jezebel' for that matter - but then there's always been humour aplenty underneath The Drone's vicious facade. Or in this case, under bull masks and cheap animation. The video goes some way to giving a handle on those lyrics also, where there's plenty of humour to be found. At least of the black kind."There's nothing she can do, he does not talk he does not move / spends all his day, lookin' at porno playing fucking Halo 2"



The Drones - 'The Minotaur'


Next is the first ever clip for the operatically gifted Oliver Mann. The Melbourne singer/songwriter doesn't appear in this animated video for 'Diamonds and Silver', but a drowned, singing possum in a tux does. Which sums up Olivers aesthetic fairly well; that of the domestic and familiar cast in a humorous and darkly surrealist light. Plus his forthcoming album is called The Possum Wakes at Night. Y'see. Always enjoy a bit of synchronicity. The songs not as immediately catchy as other album cut 'Dancing' that we posted about earlier, but the two make intriguing goalposts.


Oliver Mann - 'Diamonds and Silver'


Lastly we have the epic clip for the first single from Empire of the Sun, that collaboration between Pnau's Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele of the Sleepy Jackson. Shot on  location in Shanghai it's an egomaniac's dream, looking like a vision spawned from somewhere between Wes Anderson and David LaChapelle. And I never quite noticed how, with longer hair, Littlemore is a dead ringer for Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale. Steele on the other hand looks like an ice cream. Either way they chew up the garish scenery quite nicely.


Empire of the Sun - 'Walking on a Dream'