Beaty Heart: Kanute’s Comin’ Round

Experimental South London pop, Molly Ringwald's favorite jazz tunes, dreamy synth-pop and more in our weekly look at music

Colorful, theatrical and existing in a minimal psychedelic world all its own, the video for Beaty Heart’s latest release is new ground even for this experimental South London outfit. “Kanute’s Comin’ Round,” finds two masked and costumed dancers drawing vibrant chaos from the tracks powerful percussion. The video delivers a trippy whimsicality, all the while supporting a song as upbeat and endearing as it is …

Woman’s Hour: Her Ghost

Petit Fantome's interactive music video, Superhumanoids' i-D mix, our Valentine's theme song and more in the music we tweeted this week

The British quartet Woman’s Hour isn’t easy to sum up, but any band whose website contains a manifesto-like literary component and whose album art and videos are created by the politically-minded, provocative photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, would likely move to a different beat. The foursome—which consists of brother and sister Fiona Jane and Will Burgess, bassist Nick Graves and drummer Josh Hunnisett—pander to …

Petit Fantome: L

Petit Fantome's interactive music video, Superhumanoids' i-D mix, our Valentine's theme song and more in the music we tweeted this week

Those French singers sure know how to woo—but when they get Rosanna Webster, Charlie Sheppard and HOAV Studio on their side, one hell of an interactive music video gets made. Accompanying the track “L” by Bordeaux-based musician Petit Fantôme (Pierre Loustaunau’s solo project when he’s not playing in his band François and The Atlas Mountains) is a creative manipulation of found film footage that illustrates …