Posted 11 May 2010 - 9:51 PM
Now for a video review:
1. Snow: Appropriately enough, it depicts snow. Albeit, falling up and taking various shapes.
2. Escape Velocity: The girl from the cover of the album enveloped in blue dots. A tentative guess (plus the fact that the girl in "Swoon" looks an awful lot like her) would say that she's the "star" of the movie.
3. Another World: This appears to be the one that they used the water/cornflour mix for, except it's edited here to look like a waveform image.
4. Dissolve: Some edited footage of the "Swoon" video. The lack of originality does not bode well for this song's length.
5. Horse Power: What appears to be a paper horse (or something) whinnying in time with the track. Obviously a lot of work went into it, but it just doesn't seem to fit in with the style of visuals so far. Dunno. Also, that whinny gets annoying in a hurry. Hope it goes away when the track drops.
6. Swoon: Some extended footage of the music video. Though I suppose the music video was just extracts from here, no?
7. K+D+B: A shout-out to the 2007 Sunshine visuals; white dots of light mingle with a flock of birds and seemingly transform into each other.
8. Wonders of the Deep: "Wondering" what they needed a giant swimming pool for? No, it wasn't just for Tom to dive into. Various household objects are dropped in and sink to the bottom. To be honest I think there's a bit of dissonance between the song and the visuals, especially for something that's been shrouded in mystery for as long as "Brixton Intro". Since the visuals are playing over the intro, though, it may just be an interlude to whatever ultimately is shown, but for now I preferred the "atom dance" visuals from 2005.