Like OK Go, English quartet Clean Bandit have a penchant for self-producing simple yet effective music videos that get people talking. Unlike OK Go, however, Clean Bandit couple their videos with songs that aren\u2019t rubbish.<\/p>\n
When we first featured them back in August 2011 with the video for early single Telephone Banking, they were utilizing an often under-used musical tool in the shape of a children\u2019s Sega Mega Drive orchestra, while the video for A&E featured a giant gold snake creeping across the streets of London.<\/p>\n
In the video for their top twenty single, the techno-meets-classical hybrid Mozart\u2019s House, the band created an intricate stop-motion visual accompaniment, while Dust Clears soundtracked a short film inspired by Walter Raeburn\u2019s painting, The Skating Minister.<\/p>\n
While their current single Rather Be (co-written with Jimmy Napes, who helped create Disclosure\u2019s Latch) continues their love for mixing uplifting, classical-inspired violin and featherlight dance, the video \u2013 premiered here \u2013 is tinged with a darker undercurrent, as the band\u2019s Jack Patterson explains:<\/p>\n
\u201c[The song] is quite romantic, but the video is about a Japanese fan of the band that becomes delirious and has hallucinations of band members and our logo appearing unexpectedly in her daily life as a chef.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spoiler alert: it doesn\u2019t end well for our poor heroine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like OK Go, English quartet Clean Bandit have a penchant for self-producing simple yet effective music videos that get people talking. Unlike OK Go, however, Clean Bandit couple their videos with songs that aren\u2019t rubbish. When we first featured them back in August 2011 with the video for early single Telephone Banking, they were utilizing an often under-used musical tool in the shape of a children\u2019s Sega Mega Drive orchestra, while the video for A&E featured a giant gold snake creeping across the streets of London. In the video for their top twenty single, the techno-meets-classical hybrid Mozart\u2019s House, the band created an intricate stop-motion visual accompaniment, while Dust Clears soundtracked a short film inspired by Walter Raeburn\u2019s painting, The Skating Minister. While their current single Rather Be (co-written with Jimmy Napes, who helped create Disclosure\u2019s Latch) continues their love for mixing uplifting, classical-inspired violin and featherlight dance, the video \u2013 premiered here \u2013 is tinged with a darker undercurrent, as the band\u2019s Jack Patterson explains: \u201c[The song] is quite romantic, but the video is about a Japanese fan of the band that becomes delirious and has hallucinations of band members and our logo appearing unexpectedly in her daily life as a chef.\u201d Spoiler alert: it doesn\u2019t end well for our poor heroine.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hg6.irish-dragon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}