Oh, let me count the ways: Twin Shadow - Slow

Here is a music video (from last year because I am so behind the times) featuring the song "Slow" by Twin Shadow, a one-man outfit.



Let me count the ways in which it is awesome:

• The creepy way it is filmed at the start like an interview by James Spader's character in Sex, Lies, & Videotape.
• The way the audio from the interview comes back in later the video over top of the music. I think most artists are too protective of their oeuvre to allow it to be desecrated like that but it almost always makes the video better, especially if it corresponds to a turning point in the song. Matt Good used to do this in his videos and it worked for him.
• The haircut.
• The emotional swell of the chorus.
• The extended shots of the guy actually drumming (even though it does not always correspond to the drum track on the song). Normally in music videos the cuts are so fast and from such close and weird angles that you can't get any idea what the drummer is doing visually. This is stupid because the drummer is the most kinetically interesting member of the band. Every music video with a drummer playing should have a shot of him (or her!) playing his whole drum set for at least two bars and every music video with a guitar should at least two bars worth of the guitarist's fingering.
• The way the music harkens back to new wave.
• The synthy goodness of the keyboards.
• The gloomy longing of the vocals.
• The momentum of the bass line.
• The cross-fades.
• The drummer's intense look while he is drumming.
• The sexual undertones and overtones to the rest of the video.