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Best new music videos this week: Boots, The Shoes, Rat Boy and more

23 January, 2016 — by Christopher Ratcliff0

Warning: By the end of this new music video round-up, you may never eat chicken again.

the shoes 1960s horror video

This week: three excellent music videos from Boots, Valentino Khan and Rat Boy, a bizarre misfire from Travis and we finish with a stone-cold masterpiece from The Shoes.

Boots – ‘C.U.R.E.’

Boots is a singer, rapper, record producer, collaborator with Beyonce, director and long-time purveyor of mediocre but well-priced sandwich deals and headache medicine. For this video, Boots stays away from the Panadol and bottled water, and instead offers another C.U.R.E. (nailed it) in the form of this excellent animated video that could have been made around the same time as Aeon Flux.

Jonas Blue – ‘Fast Car’ ft. Dakota

Included purely for the beautifully shot video featuring a lovely little romance between two people who represent the final taboo in under-represented relationships in media: a cowboy and a dirt-bike rider. Unfortunately the song is another in a long line of meaningless covers of random two decade old tracks, featuring heavily processed vocals over lazy-ass house music. This time: Tracey Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’.

Rat Boy – ‘Move’

‘Move’ is an infectious hip-hop track, with Fatboy Slim levels of crowd-pleasing big-beat vim and its video features a claymation Rat Boy fending off ninjas using only his fists and some rad skateboard skills. It’s like they put the entire contents of my brain circa-1995 into a music video. The only thing it needs now is a debilitatingly awkward encounter with Rachel Leigh Cook.

Travis ‘3 Miles High’

Included for two reasons: 1) Its bafflingly awful video featuring the members of Travis being carried baby-like around the streets of Berlin by the world’s strongest men. 2) Just look at the state of Fran Healy. Look at him! Actually no, don’t look at him too long. For staring at the face of Fran Healy is to stare into the face of your own crumbling mortality.

Too mean? He’s in Travis. he’s heard worse.

Valentino Khan ‘Deep Down Low’

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The Shoes ft Dominic Lord – ‘1960’s Horror’

Hands down video of the week. Probably even month and year. It’s a searing, grimey-as-fuck track, relentless in its fury. And what exactly do the young gentlemen of ‘The Shoes’ have to be so furious about? Your gluttonous chicken consumption.

A masterpiece.

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