VIDEO: Nothing To Fear

Animated short from Simon FA Russell, backed by the music of Ólafur Arnalds with sound effects and further music by Ben Ash of Candle Music.  It's the music of Arnalds that drew me to this, and it serves as a great, haunting foil for the 1984 style industrial de-humanising automation of the people in the main thrust of the story. The drawing is beautiful, hand drawn, nicely weighted shading, scratchy black and white. I like it a lot.

VIDEO: Syd Matters - Hi Life

French solo artist Syd Matters releases this track as a single today, and this is the video for it.  Looks to me to be heavily influenced by Pete Fowler 's graphic style and little else (maybe the Yellow Submarine too), but that's no bad thing at all. This is a beautiful little animation that shows evolution and the cycles of lifealong differnet potential paths.  Some really cool stuff going on here.  The music is quite Super Furries sounding too, again, no bad thing, but it's not as good as the real thing there (especially with Gruff Rhys' new song lurking around) the video thatelevates this to beign worthwhile