Colorful video for an absolutely fantastic song.

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Essay on both Albertin-directed Wolf videos.

         

hmmm I admire Albertin for trying some new stuff (i.e. not creepy) and the Magic Position is a lot better than the first one.... but I dunno it really felt like Patrick Wolf was carrying this whole video. I mean, good job as a director bringing it out of him; but the whole setup just reminded me a lo-fi Daniel Levi Concretes video. Some nice bits in there but could've used a more cohesive idea.

         

i feel that jaron albertin is very inconsistent in putting out good videos. my fav is definitely emily haines' doctor blind. i wish he had a stronger visual style and conceptual motifs that carried through from video to video

         

too distinguished to put at least the source stream?

         

might be something to do with p wolf's peculiar presence, and also the singing to camera, but both of these videos feel as awkward as regina spektor's (except one).

         

i think this is great, and i really like the casual and obvious "in studio" look of the whole thing. i think albertin has a very clear visual style and this video is very recognizable as his own work, though the more playful tone is a new direction for him.

         

a guy difficult to digest

         

Hmmm... that was essentially a sub-par ripoff of Pulp circa-1990. Listen to "My Legendary Girlfriend" or "Death Goes To The Disco" to hear it done right -- watch later Pulp videos to see it done right. Annoying.

         

Albertin and Wolf (the darkest mind in music videos and the darkest mind in music) are obviously trying to play a trick on us. It worked.

         

Motifs? Those brightly coloured panels that only go some way to disguising a grimier reality behind - partial obscuration as seen in Maximo Park, Mew and DFA1979/Mstrkrft I'd say.

I'm not sure this quite fulfilled on it's early promise. The density of invention in the first 40 seconds... the table piano, the pigeon, the studio based motorcycle accident - all beautiful - give way to something more conventional as it goes on.

But I like it and it's an interesting departure.

         

I will side with benroll on this one. A nice first third kind of peters out a bit into boredom which then leads to dislike in the subject matter. Could have gone a little different direction. But still, that first third is good.

Maybe there ought to have been an explosion at the end.