No doubt we have all by now decided on our favourite track from Chloe Howl’s excellent Rumour EP. Mine is ‘No Strings’. If you haven’t decided yet, you can download it for free here. Now that’s out of the way, and as she’s released a video for each track, let’s decide on our favourite video.

So, let’s start with ‘Rumour’ then.

• First off, I like her jacket. I’ve got one quite similar actually.
• That’s the easiest eye test I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s just in alphabetical order.
• Yes! Two Chloe Howls. If there is one thing better than Chloe Howl, it’s multiple Chloe Howls.
• Exploding balloons never get boring.
• That hand over her mouth, like she’s about to do something naughty. Amazing.
• Much like exploding balloons, you can’t go wrong with a pinata.

Next up is my favourite song, ‘No Strings’.

• Is that milk?
• A repeat of holding a weapon behind her head, but the baseball bat is more menacing.
• I love an old phone. And that table. And that chair is awesome. Fuck, the entire set is brilliant.
• Oh look, a Chloe Howl tattoo.
• Two Chloe Howls again!
• AND DANCING TEETH!
• That phone is far too far away from her mouth for the person on the other end to hear what she’s saying.
• Good attack on the cake, but I don’t think it’s a real cake if I’m honest.

And finally the video that came out today, ‘I Wish I Could Tell You’.

• Blue is my favourite colour.
• Her hair is neater.
• An arty out of focus bit
• The obligatory two Chloes. Still not boring.
• Bubbles.
• She’s got a tassled sleeve thing. It reminds me of Karen O in a way.
• There’s not as much to say on this one, but it works for the track.

In conclusion, they’re all amazing and this has been quite a pointless exercise.

I originally thought this bit was shot in the car park of the ASDA in Colchester, but ‘Every Little Helps’ is Tesco isn’t it. So it wasn’t.

I like buses. Even when they’re not in service.

Sexual.

This is on the South Bank, quite near my office. In the summer, Pitt Cue Co. have a van just by here. Lunches are always better in the summer for this reason.

Did he stand there for ages for this bit and then they sped everybody else up or has he been dropped in afterwards? Please respond.

AND ONE BIT OF THE VIDEO THAT I DON’T LIKE

If this was during rush hour and I was around, I would be right pissed off with somebody just standing in the middle of my path.

You can decide on your own favourite bits of ‘Collider’ by Hero and Leander by watching the full video here.

I like this a lot right now. It’s the first single to come off Pat Dam Smyth’s debut album. I’m tempted to talk about soft starts building to crescendos of sounds and all that jazz, but I think I’ll just leave you to listen to it instead. There are two things I especially like about the video. The drumkit in the kitchen and the fact that he seems to have modelled his look on Joaquin Phoenix in I’m Still Here.

I bloody love Sleigh Bells. I’ve just made Jennifer Paige’s ‘Crush’ my jam on This Is My Jam because it came on my iPod on the way home and I’m already considering changing it. I usually give it a few day at least.

This is the from Gwenno (of The Pipettes fame – I fucking love The Pipettes), and it took me a good minute to realise it was in Welsh. I opened it in the background as I was catching up on emails and just thought to myself that it sounds a little bit lovely. Not unlike Saint Etienne maybe. It then occurred to me that I couldn’t make out the words. Give it another couple of seconds and I realised it was because they’re in Welsh. I was in Wales on Sunday. It’s like it is meant to be. The fact that it comes from Gwenno’s Welsh language EP probably helps as well. Does it matter that I have no idea what she’s talking about? No it does not. I’ll let you decide how to pronounce the title yourself. I’ve decided on ‘Yem-Belly-Dredd’, which I’m 99% sure is wrong because I think ‘l’ is pronounced like you’re choking to death, but it’s what I’m going with.

The next instalment in my seemingly never ending quest to get in with the Brainfeeder crew is this brand new video from Jeremiah Jae. It’s short, but fuck me it’s sweet. Directed by a certain Flying Lotus, it is pretty much just the face of Jeremiah going back and forth across the screen with some extreme close ups. Perfectly suited to the track though and the track itself is also perfect. The full album, Raw Money Raps, is out now and you can buy it here.

One of the problems I’ve found during this #hiphopjuly thing is that I haven’t got a lot to post about. 99% of the promos and news I get sent are relevant to the type of music I usually write about. That means content has been low. Therefore, thanks very much to Dave Nichols who pointed me in the direction of this. New Public Enemy. Not just that, but this is classic Public Enemy too. Chuck D is in full change-the-world mode. Fuck knows how it’ll go down in today’s hip hop climate, but this takes me right back to the late eighties and early nineties. Great work.

Next month I’m putting in a concerted effort to listen to more Hip Hop. I am calling it #hiphopjuly. If you want to know the sort of stuff you should be recommending me look no further than this track. I mentioned Oddience a couple of weeks ago when I posted about PRJCTS because they share a member in Eddington. This is equally good and I am going to play both groups to death next month.

I’m going to do some proper posts tomorrow I promise, but for now I have to post this. Put aside that it seems to have been filmed in Instagram for a second and concentrate on the fact that A$AP Rocky is playing JFK. Yeah. Fucking awesome. This is like the US equivalent of Tulisa and Daz Sampson playing Maggie & Dennis Thatcher. Imagine if that ever happened. Amazing.

Considering I’ve been off work this week, I’ve been mighty lazy with posts. I blame the internet connection being shit at my parents’ place in Suffolk. Anyway, here’s something well worth mentioning. The second single from Theme Park’s forthcoming debut album is out on 13th August and this is the video. ‘Jamaica’ is a very laid back track, which could hardly go under any name other than that of a Caribbean island. Not only is it lovely, but it’s going to make them a shit load of cash as well because it’ll be soundtracking everything this summer. In fact, here’s a prediction for you. This will be the song that 4music / T4 use on their annual summer advert.