Premiere: Lana Del Rey - Tropico

Lana Del Rey closes the Born To Die era with a huge bang. Her Anthony Mandler directed biblical short film Tropico contains three amazing tracks from The Paradise Edition; Body Electric, Gods and Monsters plus Bel Air, and stars Lana and Shaun Ross. The environments range from a utopian paradise filled with American icons, gritty and seedy shots from the streets of Los Angeles filled with strippers, violence and weapons to a serene and stunning countryside where all the hurt melts away. Sin and redemption, darkness and light. The last shot is really powerful and leaves us with questions and opens up for interpretations to say the least. Lana announced last night at the Los Angeles premiere that her second album will be called Ultra-Violence, so an album based on A Clockwork Orange could be around the corner. And carries on what she started off with her back alley blues paired with luxury. Watch below! Thoughts?

The Knife - Full of Fire - Video Premiere

The Knife premiered their Full of Fire single last week - and here's the Marit Östberg directed short film to it! This track fits perfectly as the soundtrack to these visuals. Östberg - a Berlin based queer feminist porn director and producer has created a truly unique piece that fits Karin and Olof's storytelling perfectly. To the hard industrial beat we get striking visuals discussing sexuality, gender identity + expression, social class and uproar to oppression of various forms. Have a look below! Thoughts? Says Marit:

The film ‘Full of Fire’ started to grow as an embryo in the song´s lines ‘Who looks after my story’. Who takes care of our stories when the big history, written by straight rich white men, erase the complexity of human's lives, desires and conditions? The film ‘Full of Fire’ consists of a network of fates, fears, cravings, longings, losses, and promises. Fates that at first sight seem isolated from each other, but if we pay attention, we can see that everything essentially moves into each other. Our lives are intertwined and our eyes on each other, our sounds and smells, mean something. Our actions create reality, we create each other. We are never faceless, not even in the most grey anonymous streets of the city. We will never stop being responsible, being extensions, of one another. We will never stop longing for each other, and for something else.”

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